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"Ye wonder what, Jase Day?" demanded his spouse, with some warmth. "I wonder if it can be did?" returned Uncle Jason. "Lemme tell ye, rum sellin' an' rum drinkin' is purty well rooted in Polktown. If Janice is a-goin' ter stop th' sale of licker here, she's tackled purty consider'ble of a job, lemme tell ye." As the days passed it certainly looked as though Mr.
I hy'ard him prayin' for Moses yesterday." "No prayin' is gwine to keep Honest Moses fum de debil. Dat nigger's not got no religion to his name not a speck. Didn't I tell Missus when she thought she cotched me and Ransom sellin' watermillions and sweet 'tatoes to de boys from Marietta, dat it was Moses done it?"
As they was starting down the ladder the duke he chuckles again, and says: "Quick sales AND small profits! It's a good business yes." The king snarls around on him and says: "I was trying to do for the best in sellin' 'em out so quick. If the profits has turned out to be none, lackin' considable, and none to carry, is it my fault any more'n it's yourn?"
"And are you still working at Grinder Brothers'?" "No. I got tired of slavin' there for next to nothing. I got sick of my step-father waitin' outside for me on pay-day, with a dirty, drunken, spieler pal of his waitin' round the corner for him. There wasn't nothin' in it. It got to be too rough altogether.... Blast Grinders!" "And what are you doing now?" "Sellin' papers.
I've asked most everybody I've had a chance to talk with ever since I got here, and most of 'em has been mighty accommodatin'. Why, there was one young man that followed me out of the lawyer's office just to tell me of some gold mine stock he knew about that inside of six months was goin' to be worth ten times what it's sellin' for now. Offered to buy me a controllin' interest too."
Then, as the other shook his head negatively, "Well, I haf new one potrillo nice li'l' horse si!" He cleared his throat and frowned at the listening bartender. "He's comin' couple days before, oop on thee mesa." He picked up the glass, noted that it was empty, placed it down again. "I'm sellin' thot potrillo quick," he went on "bet you' life!
I've no patience with sech." "Her daughter won't be able to halter-break these wild colts." "Didn't I say that Alethea-Belle took after her father? She must hev consid'able snap an' nerve, fer she's put in the last year, sence Abram died, sellin' books in this State." "A book agent?" "Yes, sir, a book agent." If Mrs.
"I was glad to be free 'cause I don't b'lieve sellin' an' whuppin' peoples is right. I certainly does think religion is a good thing, 'cause I'se a Baptist preacher right now, and I live 'bout six miles from Crystal Springs. I farm too." Berry Smith, Ex-slave, Scott County FEC W.B. Allison Rewrite, Pauline Loveless Edited, Clara E. Stokes BERRY SMITH Forest, Mississippi
The drivers laid on with stout ash-plants, sparing no exertion to create the donkey's enthusiasm. Prices ruled low. "'Tis not afther sellin' thim I am," said a peasant who had got rid of his pigs, "'tis bestowin' thim I was, the craythurs. The counthry is ruinated intirely, an' so it is.
The big Colonel stepped in and tried to soothe the stranger, as well as to convince him that this was not the party to try bullying on. "I'll give you forty dollars for the dog," said the muddy man sulkily to the Boy. "No." "Give you fifty, and that's my last word." "I ain't sellin' dogs." He cursed, and offered five dollars more. "Can't you see I mean it? I'm goin' to keep that dog awhile."
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