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Ef he ain' done tuk dat key fum me an' den later flung it back on de flo' uv my house, who did do it?" She sobbed afresh. "He is one mean nigger when he gits too much likker in him. Ain' nobody knows dat better'n I does. An' he sayed somethin' las' night 'bout gittin' a whole lot uv money. He " She moaned and flung herself backward on the cot. "Gawd have mussy! Gawd have mussy! I done remembuhed.
"Till next Friday three weeks," Absalom replied. "Pop says he don't know what to think about this here man Superintendent Reingruber's sendin' out. He ain't no Millersville Normal. The superintendent says he's a 'Harvard gradyate' whatever that is, pop says! Pop he sayed it ain't familiar with him what that there is. And I guess the other directors don't know neither.
I says to him, 'Tillie's pop, there, bein' one of your bosses, you better make up to Tillie, I says, and he sayed, 'You don't mean to tell me that that Mr. Getz of the School Board is the father of this girl? 'That's what, I says. 'He's that much her father, I says, 'that you'd better keep on the right side of him by makin' up to Tillie, I says, just to plague him.
There's his ugly yalle'r face now toorned this way foreninst you, Misther Gray-ham. Begorra hee don't look a day oulder, if a troifle uglier since I sayed him last!" "And is he a Chinaman?" I asked, full of curiosity; "a real, live Chinaman from the East?"
But, as Captain Montagu Burrows, R.N., mentions in his most interesting book on the Cinque Ports, Tenterden Steeple was not built till 1462, and 'was not in the popular adage connected with the Goodwin Sands, but with Sandwich Haven. It ran thus Of many people it hath been sayed That Tenterden steeple Sandwich haven hath decayed.
His wife was out with eggs; so he caught little Rose Sutton, that had more than once spelled an epistle for him; and she read it out in a loud and reckless whine: "'At noon this very daie Muster Hardie's a-g-e-n-t, aguent d-i-s dis, h-o-n honoured dis-honoured a bill; and sayed." Here she made a full stop. Then on to the next verse. "'There were no more asses."
His voice was menacing as he held out the open book for Tillie's inspection, and the child turned cold as she read on the fly-leaf, "Margaret Lind. "From A. C. L. Christmas, 18 " "You sayed the Doc give it to you! Did you lend that other 'n' off of Teacher too? Answer to me! I'll have her chased off of William Penn! I'll bring it up at next Board meetin'!"
With the last potentate of this first line of the Bavends was united by marriage the house of Ziyar which produced two celebrated princes of Gurgan, Vashmgir and Qabus. The other line, the "mountain kings" proper, sprang from a son of the last prince of the first line and was extinguished with the murder of Rustum by Sayed Husain in 1210.
I remember what ye sayed afore; but I thort ye wur only jokin'." "I was in earnest then, Hickman Holt; and I'm still more in earnest now. I want a wife, and I think Marian would suit me admirably. I suppose you know that the saints have moved off from Illinois, and are now located beyond the Rocky Mountains?" "I've heern somethin' o't."
"True," said the younger, "it would have been wiser to have sayed; but when excited, reason does not always come to one's aid."
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