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"No, miss, it's dat mis'able rheumatiz. It ketches me now an' den in de lef' knee, so I can't hardly draw my bref. O Lawdy!" he added between his clenched teeth, "but dat do hurt. Ouch! It's a little better now," he said, after a moment, "but I doan' b'lieve I kin roll dat w'eelborrow out ter de watermillun-patch en' back.
John hadn't done very well spite of his being so sharp, but he let out the best of the farm on shares, and bought a mis'able sham-built little house down close by the mills, and then some idea or other got into his head to fit that up to let and move it to one side of the lot, and haul down the old house from the farm to live in themselves.
Oh, durn him, the mis'able hot head!" She hit the pony a vicious slap with a bare hand. It lunged, as the reins loosened, reaching its best speed within a hundred yards, but urged to increasing effort by voice and hand and heel, the girl leaning far over its mane, riding as she had never ridden before.
Hed their coats 'n' vests off, 'n' sleeves rolled up, 'n' swords ready. See there wus goin' t' be a fight. Hed t' snicker wa'n' no way I c'u'd help it, fer, Judas Priest! I knew dum well they wa'n't a single one of them air Britishers c'u'd stan' 'fore 'im. Thet air mis'able spindlin' devil I tol' ye 'bout feller et hed the women he stud back o' Ray. Hed his hand up luk thet.
They does things often for which some o' the poor 'ud be put in quod, an' no mercy showed 'em, an' yet 'cos they're kings they gits off. An' I aint great on millionaires neither. They'se mis'able ricketty coves, all gone to pot in their in'ards through grubbin' money an' eatin' of it like, till ivery other kind o' food chokes 'em.
'I'll go out 'n' get my friend. "'Be they two of ye? says he. 'Jeerusalem, I told Orphy they wa'n't but one. "When I gets back with Peewee, the old gazink pushes a couple of chairs at us. "'Set right down, boys, he says, ''n' make yourselves mis'able. Then he puts a chew in his face that would choke a he-elephant 'n' begins to ask us questions.
"It sounds as if she was going to get five thousand and you was looking after your little old sixteen hundred." A couple of tears squeezed out and down over Avery's flabby cheeks. "This ain't the first time you've misjudged me, when I've been doing you a favor," said he. "And it's all on account of the same mis'able woman that I'm misjudged and we was living so happy here, me and you.
"'What do you care! hissed the voice; and jest as the fairy Slap-back was talkin' like this, up comes little Mose to Dinah, an' laughs an' pulls her work away. "Then somethin' awful happened. Dinah couldn't 'a' done it two weeks back; but it's the way with them that listens to that mis'able, low-lifed Slap-back. Jest as quick as a wink, that big gal, goin' on nine, slapped baby Mose.
You don't dare to let me stick with you, even for today! You're afraid I'd have your mis'able car by tonight! You don't dare!" "The hell I don't!" howled Milt. "If you think I'm afraid Just to show you I'm not, I'll let you go on today!" "That's sense, my boy. It would be a shame for two such born companions of the road to part!"
This plan, still, seemed a poor one to Miss Kitty, who went to her bed in a sober mood that night, and was heard telling her dear dollie, Martha Washington, that "wars were mis'able, and that when she married she should have a man who kept a candy-shop for a husband, and not a soldier no, Martha, not even if he's as nice as papa!"
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