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"I reckin I got de strength to drive ary mule dey is." "I ain't sayin' you ain't," stated Bill Tilghman. "A born ijiot could drive dat mule, so I jedge you mout mek out to qualify. 'Tain't de drivin' of him hit's de hitchin' up of him which I speaks of."
Anyhow, I be glad tew see ye tidday. I see ye've got yer gun, Jabez. Ye muss be keerful. Loryers is so derndly like foxes, that ye mout hit one on em by mistake." There was a slight snicker at this, but the atmosphere was decidedly too heavy for jokes.
"By howlin' like a wolf. Do you want 'em?" "Yes. Will twenty dollars pay the way?" "We'll whip the governor of the state for that much." Sawyer unfolded his plan. The boys were to be in front of old Jasper's house at midnight. "Don't let nobody take a gun with him," said Steve. "If you do there mout be serious trouble. And there won't be no need of it, as you say everything will be fixed.
"Well, I don't kno'," said Uncle Davy "you sho'ly ain't got no notion of marryin' agin, have you, Sally?" "No no " said Aunt Sallie, thoughtfully, "but there aint no tellin' what a po' widder mout have to do if pushed to the wall." "Well," sagely remarked Uncle Davy, "we'll jes' let it stan' as it is.
Marse Ed'ard, you's here sho nuff!" cried the man, grinning with satisfaction. "Yes, Solon," Edward said, shaking hands with him. "Who came in with you?" "Nobody, sah. You wasn't spected particular, kase you didn't send no word. But Miss Elsie tole me fotch de kerridge anyhow, an' mebbe you mout be here."
I wur thinkin' that when the log shed float in among the branches, I mout slip off, an' git my claws upon a tree, 'ithout sayin anythin' to my travellin' companion. "Jest at that minnit somethin' appeared dead ahead o' the log. It wur like a island; but what could hev brought a island thur?
If the young lady thinks I hadn't ort to have kep' the tother 'arfcrown, I would not object to its bein' stopped from my wages if I were given a job of work here. But " "But it's nonsense," said Agatha. "I never gave you three half-crowns." "Perhaps you mout 'a' made a mistake. Pence is summat similar to 'arf-crowns, and the day were very dark." "I couldn't have," said Agatha.
I didn't try to go any nearer the middle o' the log; but instead of that, I wriggled back until I wur right plum on the eend of it, an' could git no further. "Thur I sot for a good long spell 'ithout movin' hand or foot. I dasen't make a motion, as I wur afeard it mout tempt the varmint to attackt me.
All the same they mout have been only the little signs and tokens that it was him." But Mrs. Baxter's ready laugh somewhat rudely dispelled the infection of Patterson's gloom. "I reckon the only spirit was that which you and Spencer consumed," she said, cheerfully. "I don't wonder you're a little mixed. Like as not you've misunderstood his plans." Patterson shook his head.
I got a man to write ter Miss Mollie; but de letter come back sayin' she wa'n't h'yer no mo'. Den I got him to write ter whar she'd been afo' she come South; but that come back too." "Why did you not write to me?" said Hesden. "Wal," said Nimbus, with some confusion, "I wuz afeared ter do it, Marse Hesden. I wuz afeared yer mout hev turned agin me.
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