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Uncle Jimpson, following the direction of her finger, looked surprised: "Dat ain't no sheraton, dat's a sideboard. Leastwise it wuz one 'fore I fixed it into a chicken coop. I took out de drawers and put on dem cross-pieces. Got forty de purtiest little chickens you eber seen!" "And the legs are curved and have knobs, haven't they?" "No, mam, dey ain't no more bow-legged dan most chickens.
Plenty of water now, grass jumpin' up like spring. It's the purtiest country, Cal, a man ever set eyes on after a rain." "And in the spring," said Mrs. Stilwell, wistfully. "And when the wild roses bloom along in May," said Violet. "There's no place in the world as pretty as this country then." "I believe you," Morgan told them, nodding his head in undivided assent.
My man come up for a wrench, and 'Who do you think's a scootin' around down on the Bay? says he. 'Wall, it's Dave Rollin, says he; 'in the purtiest little craft, that runs jest like a picter, and he said they couldn't see but two men aboard of her then; he guessed they wan't many.
But mother she sort o' smiled and said somepin' 'bout men a-never seein' through nothin'; and when I ast her what she meant, w'y, she ups and tells me 'at Morris didn't keer nothin' fer Marthy, ner Marthy fer Morris, and then went on to tell me that Morris was kind o' aidgin' up to'rds Annie she was next to Marthy, you know, in p'int of years and experience, but ever'body allus said 'at Annie was the purtiest one o' the whole three of 'em.
If the' 's a single bird in Wyoming, you can find it hoppin' about his narrow bed or singin' in the oak tree 'at stands above him, spreadin' out its branches like a priest givin' the blessin'. Winter or summer, Monody's grave is the quietest, peacefullest, purtiest spot 'at lies outdoors, as if the old Earth had repented of the way it had treated him, and was tryin' to make it up to him now.
When de Cunel fust come to Mississippi he bought a plantation in de prairies an' lived dere for a while. But later he 'cided to build him a house in town so he got my pa to he'p him build it an' it was one of de purtiest houses in Aberdeen. It look jes lak it allus did to me now. Co'se dey is worked on it several times since den, but dey ain't changed it at all.
Our readers may recollect, that, at the close of that part of our tale which appeared in the preceding number, Dandy Duffy and Ned M'Cormick exchanged significant glances at each other, upon Flanagan's having admitted unawares that the female he designed to take away on the following night was "the purtiest girl in the parish."
"The purtiest girl in this parish, anyhow," replied Flanagan, unawares. The words, however, were scarcely out of his lips, when he felt that he had been indiscreet. He immediately added "that is, if she is of this parish; but I didn't say she is.
Ez I look back, they ain't no lovin' way thet a boy could have thet ain't seemed to come nachel to him not a one. An' his little wife, Mary Elizabeth, why, they never was a sweeter daughter on earth. An' ef I do say it ez shouldn't, their weddin' was the purtiest thet has ever took place in this county in my ricollection, which goes back distinc' for over sixty year.
"Faith," he exclaimed, "that's a foine burd, an' a purty burd too; an', begorrah, he spakes the purtiest name I ivver heerd tell on in me loife." He looked at Jenny as he said this; when, she too coloured up.
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