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Why, you can 'most reach acrost from one side to the other. Me an' Billy has often tried. It's got the loveliest crook in it, right here where we be; an' one side runs out one way an' t'other toward the river. Why, grandpa, Posy Jane says onct onct, 'fore anybody here was livin', the Lane was a cow-path an' the cows was drove down it to the river to drink.
"That week, as I say, was 'nough for me. The teacher she was a lady, mind y'! tries to tell me that it's the same blamed sun we see comin' up every mornin'. 'Look a-here, now, I says; 'don't we git a new moon onct in a while? Then, what's the matter with havin' a change of sun? Well, that plumb stumped her. She shut up."
He was tellin' me about some tenant he'd have to put out; but I never noticed more'n that the name was Jenks." "But now?" ventured Paul. "It won't be did! No, sir, not by a jugful. I got my team outside, an' I'm goin' straight over to see the widder. I knowed her husband onct too, an' I'm some 'shamed thet I didn't look her up afore," and Peleg started for the door. "Hold on, Mr.
I'd tell 'em how you dared the bullets of our own men, after the battle of Shiloh, to cut down an' carry off a measley little Yankee they'd hung up as a spy 'cause he had onct saved yo' father's life. You shot two of our boys then, Jack." "They was a shootin' me, too," he said quietly. "I caught two bullets savin' that Yankee.
Where are th' cows that we used to own?" he cried, hotly. "What happens to a maverick-hunter, nowadays? If a man helps hisself to a pore, sick dogie he's hunted down! It can't go on much longer, an' that's shore." Slivers Lowe leaped up from his chair. "Yo're right, Harper! Dead right! I was a little cattle owner onct, so was you, an' Jerry, an' most of us!"
The snow had broken the tent down, so we made it over the ridge to an old tunnel . . . I killed a porcupine but we ran out of matches and there was no dry wood or sticks to make a fire." "I et raw wolf onct in Alasky," Yankee Sam interjected reminiscently. "'Tain't a dish you'd call for in a restauraw, and I reckon procupine's got much the same flavor of damp dog.
"I was in a valley onct," said a sleepy boy, who had contributed nothing so far to the morning's entertainment. "I fell off'n the dock and the boat was clost up to me, and that was a valley." "How'd you get out?" asked several with interest. "Man pulled me out," and the speaker subsided. Hannah stole a glance at her watch, as she finished the psalm.
"A Snake's tongue is its sting. You put your foot on a Snake and see how he tries to sting you. An' his tail don't die till sundown. I seen that myself, onct, an' Granny says so, too, an' what Granny don't know ain't knowledge it's only book-larnin'."
Buck havin' onct been a recruitin' sergeant, knew it by heart all the way from 'I do solemnly swear' ter 'so help me, Gawd. Buck says I oughter seen them grateful Chinos then: they'd 'a' give him the whole Chino Umpire if they could. They got down an' squirmed an' kissed his hands an' his feet an' his sleeve.
You'll be forgettin' us all mighty quick, I reckon, once you get to livin' with your rich kin." "'Deed, I won't!" returned Ollie warmly. "Sammy an' me was a talkin' 'bout that this evenin'. We aim t' always come back t' Mutton Holler onct a year, an' be just like other folks; don't we, Sammy?" The brown pony, stepping on a loose stone, stumbled toward the man walking by his side.
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