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The Texan put it down as the raving of a mind unbalanced by hardship and peril. "I suppose yo'-all know," he drawled loudly enough for them all to hear, "that yo're on the most dangerous paht of the Llano, and that yo're off the road to Santa Fe." "Yo're a liar!" the train commander snarled. Kid Wolf tried to keep his anger from mounting. This was the thanks he got for trying to help these people!
"All right, lady," said the shoeman. "Them's youa slippas, and I'll just keep 'em for you till the latta paht of August." He drove away, and in the woods which he had to pass through on the road to another hotel he overtook the figure of a man pacing rapidly. He easily recognized Gregory, but he bore him no malice. "Like a lift?" he asked, slowing up beside him. "No, thank you," said Gregory.
Landa's," and she presented him to them all. He shifted his valise to the left hand, and shook hands with each, asking, "What name?" and then fell motionless again. "Well," said her father, "I guess this is the end of this paht of the ceremony, and I'm goin' to see your baggage through the custom-house, Clementina; I've read about it, and I want to know how it's done.
"Shuah, deh expected de 40 acres of lan' an mules, but deh had to work foh dem." "Shuah, deh got paht of de lan but de shuah had to work foh it. "After de war deh had no place to stay an den deh went to so many diffrunt places. Some of dem today don't have settled places to live.
Paht ob dey eddications must a-been neglected ef dey gotter be tied up ter keep 'em whar yo' wants 'em fer ter stay at. Yo' need'n worry 'bout Shashai and Star. Dey's got sense." Dawson vouchsafed no reply. One must be tolerant with garrulous old niggers, but he'd keep an "hey on them 'orses" all the same.
"La, Brothah Hayward, ef it ain't you; howdy; come in." "Howdy, howdy, Sistah Griggs, how you come on?" "Oh, I's des tol'able," industriously dusting a chair. "How's yo'se'f?" "I's right smaht, thankee ma'am." "W'y, Brothah Hayward, ain't you los' down in dis paht of de town?" "No, indeed, Sistah Griggs, de shep'erd ain't nevah los' no whaih dey's any of de flock."
In my room she grew queerly playful, and continued so until she had drawn off my shoes and stockings. But then abruptly, she took my feet in her slim black hands, and with eyes lifted tenderly to mine, said: "How bu'ful 'pon de mountain is dem wha' funnish good tidin's!" She leaned her forehead on my insteps: "Us bleeged to paht some day, Miss Maud."
Miss Milray did not know quite what she intended, but she knew that Clementina was feeling her way to something she wanted to say, and she let her alone. "When it was all over, and I knew that as long as I lived he would be somewhere else, I tried to be paht of the wo'ld I was left in. Do you think that was right?"
He was tired of living in town and sought the quietude of the hills. "Bein' as dat ere fiel' ain't good foh much, I thought you might be willin' to paht with it," explained Pop. The farmer eventually agreed to build a shanty on the field and sell it to Pop for $180. Pop desired immediate occupancy.
You pay me what you want to now, and the rest when I come around the latta paht of August." "Oh keep 'em, Clem!" the big girl urged, passionately, and the rest joined her with their entreaties. "I guess I betta not," said Clementina, and she completed the work of taking off the slippers in which the big girl could lend her no further aid, such was her affliction of spirit.
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