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Jim Humphries, one of the medium-sized boys, suddenly turned as white as a sheet and fell on the planks. One after another of those around him did the same, until a half-dozen were lying there in a heap. "What in the world's the matter?" asked Si, rushing up to them in dismay. "They're pizened, that's what they are," shouted Harry Joslyn. "That guerrilla goin' over there pizened 'em.
Shorty was sitting in front of the house bathing his aching feet. The man stopped before him, and looked compassionately at his swollen pedals. "Your feet are in a very bad way, my man," he said sadly. "Yes, durn 'em," said Shorty impatiently. "I don't seem to git 'em well nohow. Must've got 'em pizened when I was runnin' through the briars."
"We was brought," said Lund. "Got froze in north o' Wrangell. Gale set us west as we come out o' the Strait. We're bound for Corwin. Nothin' contraband. All reg'lar. Six hunters, two damaged in the gale, though the doc's fixed 'em up. Twelve seamen, one boy, an' a nigger cook who's pizened himself with his own cookin'. Doc's bringin' him round, too, though he don't deserve it.
I don't want to sell pizened apples." Franz, crestfallen, obeyed, and glanced at Emilie. They had never before found their assistance refused, and they both looked very sober. "Little Dinah was a chile lived 'way off down South 'mongst the cotton fields; and that good fairy watched over Dinah, Love, so sweet to look at she'd make yo' heart sing.
"Imagine fightin' the little devils till they stung you crazy and pizened your eyes shut!" Gale fell to considering this, while Poleon filled his pipe, and, raising his veil, undertook to smoke. The pests proved too numerous, however, and forced him to give it up. "Bagosh! Dey're hongry!" "It will be all right when we get out of the woods," said the elder man.
The sheriff swung his leg, and, never moving his hands, with his face now a deathly, sickening white, he slid to the ground. "Line up there beside your guerrilla pard. There! You two make a damn fine pictoor, a damn fine team of pizened coyote an' a cross between a wild mule an' a Greaser. Now listen!" Monty made a long pause, in which his breathing was plainly audible.
It was a hot day, we had been walking rapidly, and it is probable that the mulberries and the buttermilk were in a state of insurrection. But Frank didn't think so. As he rolled over the ground with his hands on his bulging stomach he exclaimed to me, "Lee, by , I believe them Secesh wimmen have pizened us!" At the time I hardly knew what to think, but relief came at last. I will omit the details.
"It's no more'n right," she resumed, "that, after having pizened Fido and lost you your place, that Doctor Conrad should stir himself around and get you a better place in the city, but I do hate to have you go, Roger. It'll be dreadful lonesome for me." "Cheer up, Mother; I haven't gone yet. The dog may get well." Miss Mattie shook her head sadly. "No, he won't," she sighed.
"An' yer pizened whiskey, why don't ye say," replied Caribou Sol, turning fiercely upon him. "What are ye howlin' fer, anyway? Why can't ye stan' up an' take yer dose like a man, instid of whinin' like a baby?" "Chuck him into the river, Sol," called out one of the men. "That will cool him off."
"Of course you didn't," said Parker triumphantly. "'Cos they AIN'T. Well, gentlemen, it didn't seem to me the square thing that a pesky lot o' yellow-skinned heathens should be built different to a white man, and never know the tortur' that a Christian feels; and one day, arter dinner, when I was just a-lyin' flat down on the bank, squirmin', and clutching the short grass to keep from yellin', who should go by but that pizened See Yup, with a grin on his face.
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