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"They want to trade off thar pelts an' sech-like for what we can give them in exchange." "All right," assents the Captain. "Be it so; and we may as well douse the sail and heave to we're making no way, any how." At this the sail is lowered, and the boat lies motionless on the water, awaiting the approach of the canoe.
Mr Green did not hurry over his purchases, but went about them with the leisurely attentiveness of one anxious to do the right thing, but unaccustomed to the business of making bargains. His wages had been "made a hand on," lately; there had been brandy and "sech-like" to buy for the missus; the neighbour to pay, leaving little more than enough for bread for the rest of them.
An' I wondered ef it was your Methodis' trainin' that taught you sech-like cheatin' of the little sparrys and blackbirds." "Yes; but Jonas " said Cynthy, bewildered. "And I see a few days arterwards a Englishman with a humbug-fly onto his line, a foolin' the poor, simple-hearted little fishes into swallerln' a book that hadn't nary sign of a ginowine bait onto it.
It cooms and it goas, doos sech-like." "What makes it come?" "What maakes it coom? Yo knaw better than I can tall yo." "If I only did know. I'm afraid it's going." "I can tell yo this for your coomfort. Ef yo soofer enoof mebbe it'll coom t' yo again. Ef yo're snoog and 'appy sure's death it'll goa." He paused. "It 'assn't coom t' mae sence I married Ally." She was wrong about Jim.
Course you can leave the do' open all the time like we-all do; but when you're a-holdin' co't and sech-like maybe you'll want to shet the do' sometimes and then whar'll ye git breath to breathe?... All these here glass winders is blame foolishness to me. Ef ye need light, open the do'. Ef somebody comes that ye don't want in, you can shet it and put up a bar.
Nobody don't know it any better. Now, I don't know nuffin' 'bout books an' de scripter an' sech-like, only what I gits second-hand no more'n you does 'bout sojerin', fer instance. But I tell ye what, 'Liab, I does know 'bout terbacker, an' I knows all about it, too. I kin jes' gib you an' Marse Hesden, an' aheap mo' jes like you uns, odds on dat, an' beat ye all holler ebbery time.
Moongarr Bill emitted a harsh grunt. 'My best girl chucked me a month back, boss, and as for your darned sentiment and poetry, and sech-like well, I ain't takin' any just at present. 'Bad luck, Bill! Struck a dead-head that time, eh?... Well, good-night. 'Good-night, boss and good luck to you.
It was all along of the wah that left everybody pore in this country, just as it made all the Yankees rich with bonds and sech-like." "Sho'! what's de use ob bein' a fool? 'Twan't de wah dat made Marse Desmit pore. 'Twuz dat ar damn fool business ob slavery afo' de wah dat wound him up.
But Isom al'ays was quar, 'n' seed things hisself. He ain't no fool!" The girl was listening. Morbidly sensitive to the supernatural, she had turned toward him, and her face was relaxed with fear and awe. "He's havin' dreams 'n' sech-like now, 'n' I reckon thar's nothing he's seed or heerd that he don' talk about. He's been a-goin' on about you," he added, abruptly.
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