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"She tole me she was dat little Molly Harris dat lived down in Charleston, an " "How in thunder did she get here?" "Dunno, sah." "You do know, and I tell you you'll make money to tell me all about it." "Dunno nothin' moah. I said dat same word, how you git yere, and she say never min 'bout dat." "What else did she say, what does she want?"
Weave on anothah yeah and yet anothah, till thou, a woman grown, can measuah out a perfect web, moah ample than these stripling youths could carry, but which will fit thy prince in faultlessness, as the falcon's feathahs fit the falcon. "Then Hildegarde took the silvah yahdstick and said, 'You may trust me, fathah.
Henry Clay, you go get me some moah sand. This is 'most too wet." "Here, you little pickaninnies!" roared the Colonel, as he recognized the cook's children. "What did I tell you about playing around here, tracking dirt all over my premises? You just chase back to the cabin where you belong!"
After wanderin about doin work where I could git it I got a job on de C an O Railroad workin' on de tracks. In Middleport, dat's near Pomeroy, Ohio, I wuz married to Gertie Nutter, a widow with two chillun, an dere wuz no moah chilluns. After mah wife died I wandered about workin' on railroads an' in coal mines an' I wuz hurt in a mine near Zanesville.
"He war peekin' at yuh-all, an' when he seed Ah sawed him he snooked an' Ah didn't sawed him no moah." "Is that all?" questioned Grace. "Yassuh. Yes'm." "Quite likely it was the man who owns the cornfield. He probably was looking the crop over to see if it were fit to cut.
"Are yuh tryin' to mind my business?" he leered. "When I mind somebody else's business," said the young stranger softly, "that somebody else isn't usually in business any moah." Garvey caught the other's gaze and seemed to find something dangerous there, for he drew back a step, content with muttering oaths under his breath. "What's the trouble?" the stranger asked Robbins quietly.
Then she sat enjoying her mother's surprise, which was almost as great as her own. "And she isn't much moah than eighteen," Lloyd exclaimed, rocking back and forth on the floor, with her arms clasped around her knees, while her mother examined the pictures. "She looks twenty at least in this picture," answered Mrs. Sherman, "even more than that. Eugenia was always old for her years.
"Besides, that widow has a lot of children and is after your money." "She ain't got but two chillen. She had moah, but she dun told me all but two was in de seminary." "The seminary?" queried Tom. Then a light broke in on him. "You mean the cemetery." "Persackly de place da puts de dead folks." "Well, they are in the cemetery right enough but they are a long way from being dead."
Well, sah, I didn' see no moah ob 'im den; but dat ebenin' I'd ben a-workin' roun' de house, sprinklin' de grass and gettin' ready foh de nex' day, when I happens to pass by de side dooh, an' I sees dem two men comm' out togedder." "What time was this, Uncle Mose?" the coroner asked, quickly.
"Tell me all about it," urged Tom sympathetically, for he had a friendly feeling toward the aged darky. "Well," began Eradicate, "I suah thought I were gwine to make money cuttin' grass, 'specially after yo' done fixed mah moah. But 'peared laik nobody wanted any grass cut. I trabeled all ober, an' I couldn't git no jobs.
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