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We'll git enough meat to take us a week to jerk hit all, or else Jim Bridger's a liar which no one never has said yit, ma'am." "Flowers?" he added. "You takin' flowers acrost? Flowers do they go with the plow, too, as well as weeds? Well, well! Wimminfolks shore air a strange race o' people, hain't that the truth? Buryin' the buffler an' plantin' flowers on his grave!
"'Why, says Milly, 'it's a hymn that the choir, or somebody in it, sings of their own accord, without the preacher givin' it out; just like your tomatoes come up in the spring, voluntary, without you plantin' the seed. That's the way they do in the city churches, says she, 'and we are goin' to put on city style Sunday.
How I could rake off the crows with it in plantin' time! Why," sez he, "by shootin' it off once or twice I could clear the hull country of 'em from Jonesville to Loontown." "Yes," sez I; "and have you got a thousand dollars to pay for every batch of crows you kill, besides damages heavy damages for killin' human bein's, and horses, and cows, and sech?"
"The folks want to leave right away, and we must get busy plantin'. I went to Vedder's friend, the real estate man, this mornin' as soon as I got back, and he says it's a real bargain." "But why isn't Bud going?" "This morning," informed Mrs. Jenkins proudly, "Bud had an offer. As soon as the theatre shuts down, Mr. Vedder is going to take Bud to a big resort and manage him for the season.
You can see tobacco growin' like aits, and mair big trees in one plantin' than in all the shire o' Lothian. Besides " But I got no more of Muckle John's travels, for the door opened on that instant, and the gaoler appeared. He looked at our heads, then singled me out, and cried on me to follow. "Come on, you," he said. "Ye're wantit in the captain's room."
There ain't much use of plantin' anything, though, for every pesky bug and worm in town will start for my patch as soon as they hear on't." "I suppose they come on the same principle that I do." "They hain't so welcome the cussed little varmints!
But when Dan took her place at the counter Isaac assured him, not without satisfaction, that "they were cliver and clane run out of all their writin' paper, barrin' it might be a sort of butt-ind of loose sheets left litterin' at the bottom of the drawer, and they that thick wid dust you could be plantin' pitaties in them, forby gettin' mildewed lyin' up in the damp so long."
I looked over into the gardens down b'low the town, 'n' see men plantin' corn, 'n' tendin' peach trees, but didn't see no women at it. The women was all in the houses, spinnin', weavin', sewin', 'n' fixin' up ginerally." "Remarkable people!" exclaimed Aunt Maria. "They are at least as civilized as we. Very probably more so. Of course they are.
"An' what have I done, Miss Shadd," sez I, very bould, plantin' mesilf forninst her, "that ye should not pass the time of day?" "Ye've half-killed rough-rider Dempsey," sez she, her dear blue eyes fillin' up. "May be," sez I. "Was he a friend av yours that saw ye home four times in the fortnight?" "Yes," sez she, but her mouth was down at the corners. "An' an' what's that to you?" she sez.
And he took his plantin' bag and went out. And then she jawed me for upholdin' him. And sez she, as she broke open a biscuit and spread it with butter previous to eatin' it, sez she, "I should think respect, respect for the great and fearful thought of meetin' the Lord, would scare you out of the idea of goin' on with your work." Sez I calmly, "Does it scare you, Trueman's wife?"
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