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He honey-fogled me Sally Magregor out of a better family than his'n, in Kansas, and skyugled me away, but it was a straight out marriage, and I kin prove it. It was in the St. Louis papers, and I've got it stored away safe enough in my trunk! You hear me! I'm shoutin'! But he wasn't no old settler in Mizzouri he wasn't descended from any settler, either!
Then General Lyon took out about 3,000 men, unt brought the whole crowd back with him." "Then General Lyon," continued Rosenbaum, "sent me out from Springfield, Mizzouri, to see how many men old Pap Price unt Ben McCullough had gathered up against him from Mizzouri, Arkansaw, Texas unt the plains. Holy Moses, I was scared when I saw the pile of them.
It's a little child ez uster crawl in and out the tail-board of a Mizzouri wagon on the alcali pizoned plains, where there wasn't another bit of God's mercy on yearth to be seen for miles and miles.
It's a little child ez uster crawl in and out the tail-board of a Mizzouri wagon on the alcali-pizoned plains, where there wasn't another bit of God's mercy on yearth to be seen for miles and miles.
The orator's smile slightly stiffened. "Where from?" he continued blandly. "Mizzouri." "A very good place to go back to, through Thompson's Pass. But you haven't answered our proposal." "I reckon I don't intend to sell this house, or leave it," said Collinson simply. "I trust you will not make us regret the fortunate termination of your little accident, Mr.
You'd hev admired to see her, Mr. Ford." As he paused here as if he had exhausted the subject, the master said impatiently, "Well, where is she now?" Uncle Ben shook his head slowly. "I ain't seen her sens I left Mizzouri, goin' on five years ago." "But why haven't you? What was the matter?" persisted the master. "Well you see I runned away.
"Yes," said Uncle Ben, leaning heavily on his chin, so that the action of his jaws with the enunciation of each word slightly jerked his head forward as if he were imparting confidential information to the bench before him. "Yes, that is, you see, I'm all right ez far as the old man goes HE'S dead; died way back in Mizzouri. But ez to my mother, it's sorter betwixt and between kinder unsartain.
He was satisfied that his visitor, like many others of humble position, was succumbing to his good fortune. "I wanted to see ye, Mr. Ford," he began, taking an unproffered chair and depositing his hat after some hesitation outside the door, "in regard to what I onct told ye about my wife in Mizzouri. P'r'aps you disremember?" "I remember," returned the master resignedly.
"Yes, yes, I remember," interrupted the master exasperatedly, "and really unless you get on faster, I'll have to leave you again." "It was that arternoon," said Uncle Ben without heeding him, "when I told you I hadn't any idea what had become o' my wife ez I left in Mizzouri." "Yes," said the master sharply, "and I told you it was your bounden duty to look for her."
Then he footed them all up, unt, turning to another officer, read from it so many Arkansaw regiments, so many Louisianny, so many Mizzouri, so many Texas, so many batteries of artillery, unt he said to another officer as he laid the paper face down among the other papers on his table: 'Just as I told you, Colonel.
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