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One time he had such a cough and he come to me and sayed whether I could do somepin. 'You're to leave tobacco be, I sayed. Ole Adam he looked serious. 'If you sayed it was caused by goin' to church, he answered to me, 'I might mebbe break off. But tobacco that's some serious, he says. Adam he used to have some notions about the Bible and religion that I did think, now, was damned unushal.
Stout Aunty Em also wore the Mennonite dress, which lent a certain dignity to her round face with its alert but kindly eyes; but her two daughters were still "of the world's people." "When Lizzie she tole me about it, comin' out from Lancaster after market this morning," continued Amanda, "she was now that tickled! She sayed he's such a good-looker!
"I was 'most ashamed to bring it, it's so wonderful little. I tole Cousin Sally, 'Why didn't you bring me a bigger book? And she sayed she did try to get a bigger one, but they was all. There's one in that li-bry with four hunderd pages. I tole her, now, she's to try to get me that there one next Sunday before it's took by somebody. This one's 'most too little."
William did not equally understand why his companion was pointing to it. He was not left long in ignorance. "Nothing to catch the water in? That's what you sayed, little Will'm? What do ye call that, my boy?" "Oh!" replied the lad, catching at the idea of the sailor. "You mean " "I mean, boy, that there's a vessel big enough to hold gallons, a dozen o' 'em." "You think it would hold water?"
a number of Indians here I went into the lodges of all the men of note except two, whome I heard had made Some expressions not favourable towards us, in Compareing us with the trabers from the north- Those Cheifs observed what they Sayed was in just & lafture. just as I was about to return the 2d Chief and the Black man, also a Chief returnd from a mission on which they had been Sent to meet a large party 150 of Gross Ventres who were on their way down from their Camps 10 Miles above to revenge on the Shoe tribe an injurey which they had received by a Shoe man Steeling a Gross Venters Girl, those Chiefs gave the pipe turned the party back, after Delivering up the girl, which the Shoe Chief had taken and given to them for that purpose.
I weel h-everything h-else wheech I may leave at my daith, both real and personal property, to Madame Attalie Brouillard, leevingue at Number, etc. 'I appoint my sayed fran' Camille Ducour as my testamentary executor, weeth-out bon', and grant heem dthe seizin' of my h-estate, h-and I dir-ect heem to pay h-all my juz debts. "Thus done and pass-ed," etc.
Amanda idly rocked back and forth in a large luridly painted rocking-chair by the window, and Mrs. Wackernagel sat by the table before an open Bible in which she was not too much absorbed to join occasionally in the general conversation. "He sayed he was afraid he was some tony," answered Absalom.
Lavendar's mind was full of something else: old Benjamin Wright was running down-hill very rapidly. In certain ways he seemed better; he could talk and swear quite fluently. "He sayed to me, this mawnin'," Simmons told Dr. Lavendar, "'Simmons, you freckled nigger, he sayed, 'in the name of Lot's wife, who salted my porridge? He spoke out just as plain!"
None of the royal family make use of either opium, betel, or tobacco, in any shape whatever; and the present sultan has much the appearance of an Arab. The grandfather of the present sultan was from Arabia, a Sayed Suriff; one of his relations was fixed at Palimbang, whose name is unknown to me, and the other, Shad Fudyel, at Acheen, who has been long dead.
"If my word was no more better 'n yours, Doe, my passin' my promise wouldn't help much!" "That's all right, Jake. I don't set up to be religious and moral. I ain't sayed my prayers since I am old enough a'ready to know how likely I was, still, to kneel on a tack!" "It's no wonder you was put off of church!" was the biting retort. "Hold up there, Jake. I wasn't put off. I WENT off.
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