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Updated: June 6, 2025
"But boys, an' men-folks ginerally, air scandalous easy ter break a promise whar whiskey is in it." "I'll hev ye ter know that when I gin my word, I keeps it!" cried Rick pridefully. He little dreamed how that promise was to be assailed before the sun should go down.
And the longer she did so, even when Ann had come to us and had been told all our tidings, the better cheer she showed; nay, it might have been conceived that it would be a far more easy and delightful matter to live in narrow poverty than in superfluous riches, and thereupon she put me in mind how that many a time, when the men-folks were away from home, she and I had been content to make good cheer with some sweet porridge, and had very gladly dined without flesh-meat, which was so costly.
When I want to get anything done I can gen'ally spunk up sprawl enough to do it myself, thanks be!" "Wall now, Samanthy, you cheat the men-folks out of a heap o' pleasure bein' so all-fired independent, did ye know it? "'Tremblin' sinner, calm your fears! Jesus is always ready." "When 'd you see him last?" "I hain't seen him sence 'bout noon-time. Warn't he into supper?" "No.
It must be they are all lords here, all the nice men-Folks. Do you wonder what I live on? Fishes, of course, for we do not have a very great chance at getting other kinds of food under water. I like herrings best of all, and feed on them oftener than on any other kind of fish. There is just one fellow that I cannot endure. That is the flying-fish.
With an aching little cry the girl ran to her, and hid in her arms like a quail. We men-folks got accumulated up into a dark corner where we shook hands and swore soft and insincere, and let our throats hurt, for all the world like it was Christmas or we'd got mail from home. Billings rode in from the Junction about dusk, and ate his supper in silence.
Harry followed her eyes with his, and saw hanging on hooks against the wall one of the long tin horns, used in the South to call the men-folks of the farms to their meals. It was crushed and battered to uselessness. "I thought I'd blow hit an' attract his attention. He mout then see them a-comin' an' git away.
"The men-folks themselves never 'd venture into 'em alone; if their cattle got strayed they 'd collect whoever they could get, and start off all together. They said a person was liable to get bewildered in there alone, and in old times folks had been lost.
"Wal, you an' me are women, an' we feel different," replied Mrs. Andrews. "Now my men-folks take much store on what Wade can do. He fixed up Tom's gun, that's been out of whack for a year. He made our clock run ag'in, an' run better than ever. Then he saved our cow from that poison-weed. An' Tom gave her up to die." "The boys up home were telling me Mr. Wade had saved some of our cattle.
She couldn't help the tumbledown fence; she had no "men-folks" round; and she couldn't have paid for a hundred pickets and a day's carpentering, to have saved her life.
'Pears like ter me ez boys an' men-folks air powerful awk'ard, useless critters ter keep in a house; they oughter hev pens outside, I'm a-thinkin'." She had forgotten about the turkey, and Nick was glad enough to escape on these terms. It was not until after he had finished his errand at Aunt Mirandy's house that he chanced to think again of the Conscripts' Hollow.
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