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Updated: June 5, 2025
Can't you promise it will blow?" "Lor, Miss, I'd promise ye anything; but what is nater is nater, and there's an end on it not as I don't say there won't be a hatful o' wind afore night why should I? but as for promisin' of it, why I'd give ye a hurricane willing or two."
Say, it was a puffy lot of hot air she hands out; but I admit that after two or three more speeches like that, and with her promisin' to square anything Piddie might have to say about not comin' back, she had me goin'. "Well, what's the proposition?" says I. "Let's tell him all, so he will understand just what he's to do," suggests Marjorie.
It sure was humpin' itself and makin' as much noise about it as a Third Avenue surface car with two flat wheels. Didn't look very promisin' but I got up and stretched my neck until I saw there was two people in it. Next thing I knew though one of 'em, a young lady, is motionin' to me, and with a squeal of brake bands the little car pulls up opposite the rock.
The four years' training in the University of the Civil War had not been overcome by his hold on the plow handles. And no farmer will grow hopelessly stooped in shoulders and sad of countenance who lifts his face often from the clods beneath his feet to the stars above his head. "You all know crops was poor last year and only moderately promisin' this year," Champers continued.
Miss Dixland, I congratulate you. You've got a fine, promisin' young man. "That, to Nate's notion, was about the biggest lie he ever told, but Olivia swallered it for gospel. She seemed to thaw toward Scudder a little mite, but 'twa'n't at a permanent melt, by no means. "'Thank you, Mr. Scudder, says she, still pretty frosty. 'I am full aware of Mr. Tolliver's merits.
The Panther made a long and critical examination of everything. "I'm thinkin'," he said, "that Cos stayed here three or four days. All the signs p'int that way. He was bound by the terms we gave him at San Antonio to go an' not fight ag'in, but he's shorely takin' his time about it. Look at these bones, will you? Now, Ned, you promisin' scout an' skirmisher, tell me what they are."
Coke, you're loony." "Not me. Wait till I'm through. Write a letter sayin' you're sorry the Andromeda must be laid up this fall, but promisin' me the next vacancy. 'Ow does that 'urt you?" Verity's cigar had gone out. He relighted it with due deliberation; it could not be denied that his nerve, at least, was superb. "I'm willin' to do anything in reason," he said slowly.
"Kurt," was the reply. "Is that American?" "No. Neither is Dorn. But Kurt Dorn is an American." "Hum! So I see, an' I'm powerful glad.... An' you've saved the big section of promisin' wheat?" "Yes. We've been lucky. It's the best and finest wheat father ever raised. If it rains the yield will go sixty bushels to the acre." "Sixty? Whew!" ejaculated Anderson.
Ury shook our hands firmly but sadly, promisin' to the last to see to things and not let the cows into the garden, and keep the buttery door shet up nights, for though the cat is not a habitual snooper, yet she will sometimes snoop. The car wuz crowded, mebby folks had hearn of our goin' and wanted to ride a spell with us.
Josiah wanted to go and see the Fire Fighters, he said he thought he could git some idees to tell the brethren that wuz in the fire company, and Blandina and I wanted to see the Esquimeaux Village. We went on, Josiah promisin' to meet us there. And as we went I said: "I've sung for years about Greenland's icy mountains, but never spozed I should set my eyes on 'em."
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