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Updated: May 11, 2025
I asked, in an elegant form of speech. "Th' doctor," she answered. "But these are for my father," I objected. "Sure, I ought ter have knowed that," she replied. "Ye'll be practicin' on he first, and when yer does real good work ye'll be knittin' 'em fer th' doctor." "Mrs. Sammy knits stockings for him," I said, severely.
Every one o' the companies except ours has a new man in command, and in ours Capt. McGillicuddy's voice has got a different ring to it than before Chickamaugy." "Practicin' to command the battalion," suggested Shorty. "You know he'll be Major if McBiddle's made a full Kurnel."
That evening, after the supper dishes were washed, Miss Phipps heard agonized wails coming from the kitchen and, going there, found her maid seated in a chair, swaying back and forth, and, as Zach Bloomer once described a similar performance, "tootin' her everlastin' soul into the harmonica." "I'm practicin' up for Saturday night," she informed her mistress, cheerfully.
It was with the average brother's supreme contempt that he listened to his sisters' "practicin'" upon the goodness of these superior beings; it was with an exceptional pity that he regarded the evident admiration of the strangers in return.
When me an' Barbie would be out ridin' I was always practicin' with a rope or a gun, an' I had a dozen foller-up throws 'at I've never seen beat. I did my work cleaner an' more showy'n he did, but it couldn't be done much quicker. We finished three days ahead of the schedule an' the boys said it was a tie.
The others lifted high their right arms and in a sepulchral voice the spokesman demanded, "Does ye all solemnly sw'ar, by ther dreadful oath ye've done tuck, with yore lives forfeit fer disloyalty or disobedience, ter try this wench on ther charge of outragin' decorum an' practicin' ther foul charms of witchcraft?
Ole José Montoya always said to do your practicin' by yourself, and then nobody knows just how you would play your hand." Bailey frowned and nodded. "Well, seein' as I'm in on it, Pete, I'd kind of like to know myself." "Why, I'm jest figurin' that some day mebby somebody'll want to hang my hide on the fence. I don't aim to let him." "Meanin' Gary?" "The same.
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