Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 15, 2025
"What sort of girls are they?" "Sort o' queer." "Yes?" "Ye bet ye. Come from the city a while ago an' livin' by theyselves. Someth'n' wrong 'bout them gals," added Bub reflectively. "In what way?" asked the little man in a tone of interest. "They ain't here fer nuth'n' special 'cept watchin' the folks at Hillcrest. Them's the folks I belongs to. For four bits a week.
"Nuth'n", says Smith; and keeps his hat on, and just turns his back and goes to talking with somebody else. 'Oh, yes, eight years ago, the captain was on top; but it's Smith's turn now. Eight years ago a boat used to go up the river with every stateroom full, and people piled five and six deep on the cabin floor; and a solid deck-load of immigrants and harvesters down below, into the bargain.
I asked, after we had stared at one another. "Ain't yer yeared nuth'n' 'tall?" a shade of contempt in his tone. "No, what is there to hear?" I asked, rather irascibly. "Dey's a big fight down-town; de folks dey done tore de Six Reggimen' all ter pieces, an' dey's wuk'n 'long on de Fif now." "Whereabouts?" I started up, and got on my hat in an instant. "Dey's et Camd' Street depot, now.
"You sa-ay 'What we a-doin' hyuh? Well, suh, I mought sa-ay we ain't a-doin' nuth'n'; but I" he squirted again "will sa-ay that so fah as you see what we a-doin', you kin see, an' welcome; an' so fah as you don't see, it ain't none o' yo' damn' busi-ness." "Oh, that's all right, I was only asking a friendly question."
Eyes're like winders, but hers ye kain't see through. I don't know nuth'n' 'bout that slick gal at Bigbee's an' I don't want to know nuth'n'. But I heer'd what ye said to the boss, an' what he said to you, an' I guess you're right in sizin' the critter up, an' the boss is wrong."
McNutt wiggled his toes again, desperately. "Can't use any sas'frass roots, can ye?" "No, indeed; all we crave is the 'Lives of the Saints." "Don't want to buy no land?" "What have you got to sell?" "Nuth'n, jest now. But ef ye'll buy I kin git 'most anything." "Don't go to any trouble on our account, sir; we are quite content with our splendid farm." "Shoo! Thet ain't no good."
"Well, y-e-es, seh," replied Thomas, after reflecting awhile. "I hain't got nuth'n' 'g'in' Ailse; she's quite, an' ohdaly, a good cook, an' laundriss, an' she's a lady, an' all that, but sh' ain't not to say what you'd call a giftid 'oman." "Like Sister Mary Ann Jinkins, eh?" "Egg-zac'ly, seh. Mist' Dunkin, you put hit kehrec', seh.
As to us, we were welcome to stop throughout our pleasure, an invitation he reinforced by sitting upon a stump, whittling vigorously meanwhile, and glibly gossiping with the Doctor and me for a half-hour, on crop conditions and the state of the country "bein' sociable like," he said, "an' hav'n' nuth'n 'gin you folks, as knows what's what, I kin see with half a eye!"
"Thet ain't no real pome, Peggy." "It makes rhymes, don't it? All but the las' line." "Mebbe it does," replied Skim, with assumption of superior wisdom; "but it don't mean nuth'n'." "It would ef I got paid fer it," observed Peggy. Skim went home to his mother's tiny "Emporium," took some note paper out of stock, opened a new bottle of ink and sat down at the sitting room table to write his story.
"They's seven good tires down cellar now; I counted 'em the day afore ye come here." "In that case," said Mary Louise, "if any of us knew how to drive we could use the car." "Drive?" said Bub scornfully. "That's nuth'n'." "Oh. Do you know how?" "Me? I kin drive any car thet's on wheels.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking