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"No, sir, there ain't no ladies there, 'cept Miss Tabitha, onny some London gents, and Sir Morton, 'e flew into an orful passion like 'e do, sir, an' told us to leave off singin' and git out, 'Git off my ground, he 'ollers 'Git off! then jest as we was a gittin' off, he cools down suddint like, an' 'e sez, sez 'e: 'Take a note to the dam passon for me, an' bring a harnser, an' I'll give yer somethink when yer gits back. An' all the gents was a-sittin' at breakfast, with the winders wide open an' the smell of 'am an' eggs comin' through strong, an' they larfed fit to split theirselves, an' one on 'em tried to kiss Kitty Spruce, an' she spanked his face for 'im!"
I have come to like the place and do most of my writing there, catching snatches of conversation and reminiscence as they float across to me. "I wasn't meanin' to 'urt ole Ginger Nobby nohow, but the muck I throwed took 'im dead on the jor. 'Wot's yer gime? 'e 'ollers at me. 'Wot's my gime? I says back to 'im. 'Nuffin', if ye want ter know! I says. 'I was just shyin' at squidges."
It's you're the sinner ollers, she's the saint; Whot's good's all English, all thet isn't, ain't. She is all thet's honest, honnable, an' fair. An' when the vartoos died they made her heir." This was written just after President Cleveland's pronunciamento in regard to Venezuela, and thus long before the outbreak of the war with Spain.
Corporal Wells described the game as one where the winner "'ollers 'ouse and the rest 'ollers 'ell!" Some of the nicknames for the different numbers remind one of the slang of the crap shooter. For instance, "Kelly's eye" means one. "Clickety click" is sixty-six. "Top of the house" is ninety.
"I don't want to disturb Logroller's pious yarn," interrupted the colonel; "but ez it's Old Black that's drivin' to-day instid of Slim Mike, an' ez Old Black ollers makes his time, hedn't we better vamose?" The door of the shanty was hastily closed, and the men filed through the thicket until near the road, when they marched rapidly on parallel lines with it.
I got up and went into the passage in order to ask 'em not to make such a noise, when Mr. Whyte's door opens, an' the gentleman in the light coat comes out, and bangs along to the door. Mr. Whyte 'e comes to the door of 'is room, an' 'e 'ollers out.
Leach's orders, as deaf as a post unless you 'ollers at him, but a good-meanin' man for all that and I sez, 'Spruce, you and me 'ull go an' fetch old Josey Letherbarrow, and see if bein' the oldest 'n'abitant, as they sez in books, he can't get a wurrd with Miss Vancourt, and so 'ere we be, Miss, for the trees be chalked" and he turned abruptly to Spruce and bellowed "Baint the trees chalked for comin' down to-morrow marnin'? Speak fair!"
Tell Fan, for me, if she gits George Ludlow, her fortin will be fixed. A good many young bucks, that feels above him, might thank the powers, if they knowed as much as he, and was half as likely. Wish I had ollers did as wal as George, and my mind was peaceful as his'n. But I must go hum. I calkilate to start on a journey to-morror, for the Holland Purchase, and I've a little fixin' to dew."
We feeds him and gives him a house, and his belly is ollers full. But then, jist becase he's a black bear, we're ollers a poking him with sticks, and a' course the beast is a kinder riled. He wants to be back to the mountains. He wouldn't have his belly filled, but he'd have his own way. It's jist so with them Southerners."
One really gets very tired of people who go on harping on the same thing over and over again. "What about raspberries?" I inquired. "Soft fruit, of course," said the inspector. "But they contain stones," I urged. "Nasty little things wot gits into the 'ollers of your teeth somethink cruel, as cook says. Really, the Government ought to give us more careful instructions. And what about the apples?
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