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There's mighty little we didn't see, I'm tellin' you; and chirpin' all the while Pa was too. He's better than a minstrel show to go anywhere with, my Pa is; he'd make even you laugh, Lucien. Well, anyway, along about four o'clock Pa thinks we'd better see oner two of the shows in the midway, so's we can get another meal in good time to see the night doings in fronter the grand stand.
I'd have given the Malay such a oner as he wouldn't have forgotten in a hurry. Poor old Tommy, though I I hope he isn't hurt much. How do you do, Miss Linton?" he said stiffly, as he encountered Rachel Linton in the verandah. "Quite well, I thank you, Mr Roberts," said Rachel, imitating his pompous stiffness, and curtseying profoundly; "how do you do?" "Oh! I say; don't, Miss Linton.
One would think he was sixteen, instead of six, I said, half laughing. 'I'm most ten. Hi! ain't that a oner? cried the boy, as a gust of sleet slapped him in the face, when he peeped to see if Sam was coming. 'Hullo! the lights is out! Why, the play's done, and the folks gone, and Sam's forgot me.
Your boss was over once when Tommy was whanging away on oner them songs, and he says, 'Heavens, Tommy, when's the funeral? and Tommy says, 'Guess again, Simmons, he says.
"Vy, much of one and not a little of the other!" said the euphonious confidant. "How! speak plain, man; what do you mean?" "Vy, I means, your 'oner, that I can't say vhere he is." "And this," said Brandon, with a muttered oath, "this is your boasted news, is it? Dog! damned, damned dog! if you trifle with me or play me false, I will hang you, by the living God, I will!"
Sometimes he git mad at oner de hosses an' frail it proper. Dat high temper run in de Dean fambly, chile. Dey gits mad, an' dey flies off, an' you just got to stan' it." "But does he does he get over it quick?" The old negress shook her head. "He'll be mighty quiet come suppeh-time, not talkin' much, lookin' dahk. Walk light, an' don't say nuffin' rile him up, eve'ything all right.
"Vy, much of one and not a little of the other!" said the euphonious confidant. "How! speak plain, man; what do you mean?" "Vy, I means, your 'oner, that I can't say vhere he is." "And this," said Brandon, with a muttered oath, "this is your boasted news, is it? Dog! damned, damned dog! if you trifle with me or play me false, I will hang you, by the living God, I will!"
The man shrank back involuntarily from Brandon's vindictive forehead and kindled eyes; but with the cunning peculiar to low vice, answered, though in a humbler tone, "And vet good vill that do your 'oner? If so be as how you scrags I, will that put your vorship in the vay of finding he?"
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