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"That hain't no theology But a sort of doxology, Here's my apology, Maker of me, Here where I'm sittin', Smooth as a kitten, Smokin' and spittin' Into the sea. "The storm winds come sweepin', Come widowed and weepin', Come rippin' and reapin', The wheat of the loam, And some says, it's sport, boys, It's timbrels and hautboys, And some is the sort, boys, That's sorry he come.
Atwixt spring and fall work is 'BLOWIN' TIME. Then Courts come on, and Grand Jury business, and Militia trainin', and Race trainin', and what not; and a fine spell of ridin' about and doin' nothin', a real 'BLOWIN TIME. Then comes harvest, and that is proper hard work: mowin' and pitchin' hay, and reapin' and bindin' grain, and potato diggin'. That's as hard as sole leather, afore it's hammered on the lap stone; it's a'most next to anything.
And he kep' right on, so they say reapin' 'em ever since, cuttin' up and actin', but always actin' jest inside the law and always cuttin' up the same. He had the gift of gab and he made eloquent public speeches, tellin' what boons saloons and kindred places wuz to the community. I spoze there never wuz a more popular legislator.
Lafe started for the door. "Afternoon," he said, with a tone of finality. "But," said Scattergood, "I figger you to do the fightin' for the railroads reapin' whatever benefits you can figger out of it for yourself." Lafe paused, considered, and returned. "What's the idee?" he asked. "I jest don't want this bill to pass too easy," said Scattergood, soberly, but with a twinkle in his eye.
Who sells his honor sells his manhood and becomes simply a thing of meat and blood and bones a thing to be watched and driven and cudgelled like the ox for he has sold that he can not buy, not if all the riches in the world were his." A little silence followed the words. Then Uncle Peabody said: "That's the kind o' stuff in our granary. We've been reapin' it out o' the books Mr.
He'd do his plowin' or reapin', or whatever it was, but the deuce a bit would he leave it to oblige Sally or the boys, or any one else, but father; he had to mind him, in course, or put his three great coats on, the way he came, one atop of the other, to cover the holes of the inner ones, and walk. But, as for me, he'd do anythin' I wanted.
His nose was high, sharp, and crooked, like the back of a reapin' hook, and gave a plaguy sight of character to his face, while his thinnish lips, that closed on a straight line, curlin' up at one eend, and down at the other, shewed, if his dander was raised, he could be a jumpin', tarin', rampagenous devil if he chose.
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