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I told about Louis Sixteenth that got his head cut off in France long time ago; and about his little boy the dolphin, that would a been a king, but they took and shut him up in jail, and some say he died there. "Po' little chap." "But some says he got out and got away, and come to America." "Dat's good! But he'll be pooty lonesome dey ain' no kings here, is dey, Huck?" "No."
"Are you satisfied now?" he asked when he had finished. "Wal, now, Squire," replied Uncle Sam, still keeping up his provoking drawl, but turning round and looking at the stranger very steadfastly, "some thin's is so pooty and so ilegantly done, they seems a'most as good as well-slung flapjacks. A natteral honest stomick can't nohow have enough of them.
"I should like to see him, Doctor, I should like to see the pooty gen'l'm'n that my poor Elsie loves. She mus 'n' never marry nobody, but, oh, Doctor, I should like to see him, 'n' jes' think a little how it would ha' been, if the Lord had n' been so hard on Elsie." She wept and wrung her hands. The kind Doctor was touched, and left her a moment to her thoughts. "And how does Mr.
There's a deep gorge cut right inter that hill, back 'o the pint. The gorge has a pooty smooth rocky bed. In the spring o' the year, there's a brook runs through there and pours inter the river jest below. But it's all dry neow, and the deer, as a gen'al thing scramble eout of their feedin' place into this gorge and foller it deown to the river to git their drink.
He come home late nights, come in softly, oh, I hear him! I lay awake, 'n' got sharp ears, I hear the cats walkin' over the roofs, 'n' I hear Dick Veneer, when he comes up in his stockin'-feet as still as a cat. I think he mean' mischief to somebody. I no like his looks these las' days. Is that a very pooty gen'l'm'n up at the schoolhouse, Doctor?" "I told you he was good-looking. What if he is?"
It clouded up en 'uz pooty dark for a little while. So I clumb up en laid down on de planks. De men 'uz all 'way yonder in de middle, whah de lantern wuz. De river wuz a-risin', en dey wuz a good current; so I reck'n'd 'at by fo' in de mawnin' I'd be twenty-five mile down de river, en den I'd slip in jis b'fo' daylight en swim asho', en take to de woods on de Illinois side.
As those words were spoken, another yell, louder, shriller, and nearer than before, burst upon their ears. It seemed to be close astern. The beat of the paddles was also near them. "Pooty close!" said the captain. "Isn't there some danger that we'll be run down?" To this question, thus anxiously repeated, the captain answered slowly, "Wal, thar may be, an then again thar mayn't.
Jes' step along naow, off that way, will ye? 'n I'll hol' on t' th' bridle, f' fear y' sh'd run away." He took hold of the leather thong, but found that it was fastened at the other end to the saddle. This was too much for Abel. "Wal, naow, yeou be a pooty chap to hev raound! A fellah's neck in a slippernoose at one eend of a halter, 'n' a boss on th' full spring at t'other eend!"
They was good boarders, both of 'em, paid regular, and was as pooty a couple as she ever laid eyes on.
They was good boarders, both of 'em, paid regular, and was as pooty a couple as she ever laid eyes on.
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