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I like Susanna better to-day than I ever did before. She showed me the real inside of herself, and it isn't half as crusty as the outside." "Huh! What'd she do to manage that? She seems powerful still an' sot-lookin' sence she come back from inspectin' her 'prope'ty. By the way, did you happen to notice whuther the slat top to that cistern o' hers was over the manhole?
The Widow Sprigg had long since dried her unaccountable tears, and was freshly indignant at the state of affairs. So soon as they were within doors she turned upon the intruder, and demanded: "What did you mean by such doin's as these, Nate Pettijohn? Ain't you ashamed to destroy folkses prope'ty this way? Where's my log-cabin quilt? My pillows? All my things?"
Wen dey comes an' fin's out dat we jes' means ter pertect ou' prope'ty, dey'll go 'long 'bout deir own business. Er, ef dey wants a scrap, dey kin have it! Come erlong, boys!" Jerry Letlow, who had kept out of sight during the day, had started out, after night had set in, to find Major Carteret. Jerry was very much afraid. The events of the day had filled him with terror.
We've eaten all the mules and rats and sugar cane in town." Whereupon he drew from his hip a dented silver flask. The Colonel remarked that Stephen's eyes fell on the coat of arms. "Prope'ty of my grandfather, seh, of Washington's Army. My name is Jennison, Catesby Jennison, at your service, seh," he said. "You have the advantage of me, Captain." "My name is Brice," said Stephen.
Which fact Katharine was quick to observe and comment upon, with a laugh: "Oh, you blessed old coward! You're afraid that tramp has shut himself up in your 'prope'ty, and you'll come upon him unawares. You'd 'risk' me, just as Monty 'risked' Ned Clackett to climb the schoolhouse roof after a ball, not daring to go himself. Well, here goes! You keep watch without while I search within."
Mines and mules and grub is all right, but when it comes to this old Lovin Man, why who was it found him, for gosh sake?" "Aw, git out!" Cash growled. "Don't you reckon I'd have grabbed him off that squaw as quick as you did? I've humored you along, Bud, and let you hog him nights, and feed him and wash his clothes, and I ain't kicked none, have I? But when it comes to prope'ty "
"The chimbley smoked," interjected the widow, feeling free to disparage her own "prope'ty," though she would have resented such a remark from another. "That could be fixed, I reckon. When I saw it from the stage, coming, I thought it was just like a doll-house, or a child's playhouse." "Huh! You did, did you? Well, let me tell you, Katharine Maitland, that house is a good one.
"Gentlemen," he cried, "I have heah two sisters, the prope'ty of the late Mistah Robe't Benbow, of St. Louis, as fine a pair of wenches as was ever offe'd to the public from these heah steps " "Speak for the handsome gal," cried a wag. "Sell off the cart hoss fust," said another.
We've eaten all the mules and rats and sugar cane in town." Whereupon he drew from his hip a dented silver flask. The Colonel remarked that Stephen's eyes fell on the coat of arms. "Prope'ty of my grandfather, seh, of Washington's Army. My name is Jennison, Catesby Jennison, at your service, seh," he said. "You have the advantage of me, Captain." "My name is Brice," said Stephen.
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