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"I was too weak for strong purpose, and with presentiment of harm, had no strength for resistance. I must have dozed. Old Sarah is now arranging some things upon a small table at head of the cot. To my look she soothingly says: "'Yo' needn't be 'larmed; dey's all gone 'way. Yo' bettah pahtuk of some refreshments now. Dis tea an' toast moughty good for de s'port of yo' 'feebled system.
I never did see thet boys was either useful enough, or ornamental enough, to make such a fuss over 'em!" Uncle Rufus, hovering on the outskirts of the family party, grinned hugely upon Neale O'Neil. "Yo' is sho' 'nuff too good a w'ite boy tuh be made tuh dance an' frolic in no circus show naw-zer! I's moughty glad yo's got yo' freedom." Neale, too, was glad.
You all is got to teck 'em de way dey's made, en dar's moughty few un um dat is made right." Still muttering, she stumbled down the walk and out of the gate, while Gabriella returned to her mother's room and hurried the weeping children into their shoes and stockings. Mrs.
"The wench soothingly says: "'Don' be 'fraid of Sarah Angeline; she won't hurt yo', honey! "I motioned the old woman to be seated. "With much show of sympathy old Sarah sat down by the cot. "I now asked where we were and how I came there. "She looked troubled, and replied: "''Deed, chile, I'se 'fraid to tell yo'! Dey mought hurt yo', honey, an' beat po' ole Sarah Angeline moughty considerable!
"En I'se got a sack er co'n I'd be moughty bleeged ter git ground up fur hominy meal " With a laugh Abel passed on through the side-garden, and entered the leafless shrubbery that bordered the Haunt's Walk. The old negro had disturbed his dream, which had been of Molly in her red stockings, with the red ribbon binding her curls.
"Well, stranger, how do you feel yourself, this morning?" asked Jerry. "Better. That was a cursed hard rap which some one gave me, last night," replied Vernon, as, from the force of habit, we must still call him. "That are a fack, stranger; the man that gin you that blow has a moughty hard fist; and I advoise you to keep clear of him, or he will beat you into mince-meat." "I will try to do so."
Oh, he's de gemman whut come an' offered to 'ten' to Sis' Jane Callender's bus'ness fu' huh. He's a moughty clevah man." "And he told her she ought to make a will?" "Yas, suh.
"Yo' Yanks," she said scornfully, "think yourselves moughty smart with all your book-larnin', and yo'uns put on heaps o' airs over po' folks what hain't no eddication; but what you don't know about Tennessee woods would make a bigger book than ever was printed." "I believe you," said Shorty fervently.
Such a girl exerts a great influence in her school and mountain home. An enthusiastic mountaineer described an example in this wise: 'I tell yeou hit teks a moughty resolute gal ter do what that thar gal has done. She got, I reckon, about the toughest deestric' in the ceounty, which is sayin' a good deal. An' then fer boardin'-place well, there warn't much choice.
"Mahaley she's moughty bad off, but 'tain' no night fur Miss July dat's w'at I tell 'er one er dese yer spittin' nights ain' no night ter be out in." "You're right, Shadrach, you're right," responded the Governor; and rising he drank the wine standing. "It isn't a fit night for her to be out, and I'll go after her at once."
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