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Likewise, they got chatty, and commenced to unload remarks. "'Land sakes! says one. 'How's punkins? "'How's crops down your way? says another. "Now there wa'n't nothin' real bright and funny about these questions more fresh than new, they struck me but you'd think they was gems from the comic almanac, jedgin' by the haw-haws.
He seemed to enjoy contradicting me. "Nobody seems in a hurry in this town," I said. "Don't, hey? Wal, ye ought to 'a' seen Deacon Norton run when some punkins on his side hill bu'st their vines an' come rollin' down an' chased him half a mile into the valley."
Childishly vain, he bore himself with an air of self-satisfaction not without its charm for humorous neighbors. They said that they guessed he thought himself "some punkins." "Some punkins" most people admitted him to be, although how much of his money and how much of his shrewdness was really his wife's was matter of debate among those who knew him best. At any rate, the Peaslees had made money.
I'll come over this afternoon with my cultivator, and we'll tackle the corn and pertaters, and make such a swath among these green Philistines that you'll sleep better to- night. But ye're goin' to come out right, mind, I tell ye so; and I've seen mor'n one city squash come to the country with the idee that they were goin' to beat us punkins all holler." And he left us laughing and hopeful.
Jake was in great spirits when he learned what had happened. "Great punkins!" he exclaimed. "I wish I'd been there to have seen it." "But what about the corn?" Douglas asked. "It didn't get much hoeing to-day." "Never mind about the corn, John. Ye kin hoe it agin, but ye might never git another chance to roll Ben Stubbles in the dust. Ho, ho, that was a good one!"
Reaching the main road, he tore through the dust, sprang over a ditch, leaped a fence, raced through the orchard and ran plumb into Jake and Empty standing at the back door. "Great punkins!" Jake exclaimed, recovering from the impact. "What's wrong?" "Quick, quick!" Douglas panted. "Come at once. Ben's men are after me. They think I'm at the professor's, and they are going to break into the house.
It warn't out of character, with Franklin, and he was a poor printer boy, nor Washington, and he was only a land-surveyor, and they growed to be 'some punkins' too. 1 The reader will perceive from a perusal of this Journal, that Mr Slick, who is always so ready to detect absurdity in others, has in this instance exhibited a species of vanity by no means uncommon in this world.
'No, thank you, said the young man haughtily, marching on before with his auger. He detested Zack's familiar manner, and could hardly avoid resenting it. 'We're worth some punkins this mornin', I guess, observed Zack, glancing after him. 'He'll run his auger down instead of up, out o' pure Britisher pride an' contrariness, if we don't overtake him.
"You may get up if you are." "Great punkins!" Jake exclaimed, as he scrambled to his feet. "How in the world did ye do it? Ye're the first one who ever put me down, blister me shins if ye ain't." "Oh, you are an easy mark," Douglas replied. "Why, I didn't half try." "Ye didn't!" and Jake's eyes and mouth opened wide in amazement. "What could ye have done if ye really tried?"
The fierce wave had dashed against the regiment early in the morning, and although the first fire received from the Rebels made gaps in the ranks where fifty men fell, it did not recoil a step, but drove its assailants back with such slaughter that their dead, lying in the open ground over which they crossed, were grimly compared by Abe Bolton to "punkins layin' in a field where the corn's been cut off."
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