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I've been tryin' to get her some just like 'em, only my co't duties are so pressin'. Goodness, gracious me! but it's gettin' hot!" Here he stopped and mopped his face, then his eyes fell upon her again: "Bless my soul, child! you do look pretty this mornin' jest like yo' mother! Where did you get all those pink and white apple-blossoms in yo' cheeks?" "Do you remember her, Mr.
Uncle Sheba hitched uneasily in his chair, feeling that the conversation rather reflected on him, and he was conscious that old Tobe, keeper of the "rasteran," was glaring at him. "I reckin," he said, "dat de min'ster might offer a word ob prar an' comfort fore he go." "What pressin' business," asked his wife, severely, "hab you got, Unc., dat you in sech a hurry fer de min'ster ter go?
'But Mary, my dear' here Sam's manner grew extremely affectionate 'Mary, my dear, I've got another affair in hand as is wery pressin'. There's one o' my governor's friends Mr. Winkle, you remember him? 'Him in the green coat? said Mary. 'Oh, yes, I remember him. 'Well, said Sam, 'he's in a horrid state o' love; reg'larly comfoozled, and done over vith it. 'Lor! interposed Mary.
The child wuz wedged in by the throng of folks and couldn't stir, and they wuz all engrossed in their own business which wuz pressin', and very important, a buyin' plates, and plaks, with bull-rushes, and cranes, and storks on 'em, so naturelly, they didn't mind what wuz a goin' on round 'em. And down it come! And there it wuz put down in the paper, "A mysterious dispensation of Providence."
"She'd taught him to call her mother she'd had him about six months then an' some thought that was queer to do, seein' Calliope was her age an' all. But I thought it was wonderful right. "'I did play, he says to her he had a nice little way o' pressin' down hard with his voice on one word an' lettin' the next run off his tongue 'I did play dreams, I rec'lect he says; 'I dreamed 'bout robbers.
A collapsing beam had torn away some bricks from the wall of his cell, and he came wriggling through the aperture, using the most dreadful oaths. "Stir yourselves Oh, , , stir yourselves! Standin' there like a lot of stuck pigs! Get out the Admiral! The Admiral, I tell you! . . . . Hark to the poor old devil, damnin' away down ther, wi' two hundredweight o' table pressin' against his belly!" Mr.
In them epocks, the grizzly b'ar treats a gent contemptuous. He swats him, or he claws him, or he hugs him, or he crunches him, or he quits him accordin' to his moods, or the number of them engagements which is pressin' on him at the time. An' the last thing he considers is the feelin's of that partic'lar party he's dallyin' with. Now, however, all is changed.
"And why in the name of conscience don't you get a thimble, Jonathan? The idea of your stickin' the needle in, and then pressin' it against the chair to make it go through. If that 'aint just like a helpless man, I wouldn't say." "Well, of course sewin' 'aint just a man's business, anyway; and when he has just got to do it " "Why don't you let Mary McGuire do it for you?
"He goes on and shows how all up and down a feller's backbone there is plenty of soft spots, and he shows likewise that there is scattered around in different parts of a feller's territory something like two hundred and four and a half bones, any one of which is likely any minute to jar loose and go to pressin' on a soft spot; 'In which case, says he, 'there is need of a ostypath immediate.
This Boone's packin' a most excellent six-shooter loose in the waistband of his laiggin's. Boone's passin' by as Yuba lets fly his taunts an' this piece of ordnance is in easy reach. With one motion I secures it an' the moment followin' the muzzle is pressin' ag'inst a white pearl button on Yuba's bloo shirt. ""Bein' now equipped," I says, "this war-dance may proceed."
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