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"Oh, not much; her parrot kept interrupting," laughing a little. "I always talk with her about her books or curiosities, nearly; how pretty it is there!" "Miss Plunkett comes o' good stock. Her folks hev been sea-captings ever sence they was pirates, I guess. And she's rich too; she must hev as much as two thousand in the savings bank down to Norcross, 'sides her nice home."
"I'm willin' to take your word fer it, boss. But what's gittin' to worry me, by cripes, is all this here war-talk about Injuns. Honest to grandma, I feel like as if I'd been readin' " "Aw, it's jest a josh, Bud!" Happy Jack asserted boredly. "I betche there ain't been a Injun on the fight here sence hell was a tradin' post!" "You think there hasn't?" Luck looked up quickly to ask.
Doty's in the autumn, "ef crops hes done es well sence he went." There had been endless talk of the villanous tendencies of Government officials, and of the tricks played whose end was to defraud honest and long-suffering claimants of their rights.
Sence de creek's been up I haint been able to git across, and dere's piles o' letters to go ober to-day." "It must make it rather bad for the company when the creek rises in this way," said Harry. "Dat's so," answered Miles. "Dey gits in a heap o' trubble when dey can't send dere letters and git 'em. Though 'taint so many letters dey sends as telegraphs."
"Did you scare them away?" exclaimed Marcy. "I reckon so, sar; kase dere ain't nobody but Julius been on de schooner or 'bout it sence dat time." "Well, let's get to work," said Jack. "Julius, you stay below till I tell you to come up, do you hear? If I see so much as a lock of your wool above the combings of the hatch, I'll chuck you over for the catfish."
"Ever sence I was a little chap settin' on my granddaddy's knees by the hearth big hickory fire a-roarin' up the chimbly, wind a-goin' 'whooh! overhead, an' me with my eyes like saucers a-listenin' to his tales of the silver mine that the Injuns had ever sence that time I've hunted that thar mine." He laughed chucklingly, deep in his throat.
Arter speakin' in a voice hollow as an empty coffin, an' skeerin' me out'n my seventeen sensibles axin arter you, he jes tuk hisself off summers, an' I ain't seen him sence." "What did he ask you? What did you tell him?" "He jes ax where you was.
Sherman, 'Tween you an' me, I guess the Honey is throwin off on that are Sherman, fur ye see I hed to go right inter the ball-room fur her, the night the doctor died, and I see her, with my own eyes, draw away from him as if he had hurt her, and I kinder hed a inklin that may be he'd been drinking a leetle too much, fur, to my sartin knowledge, she ain't 'lowed him fur to come nigh her sence.
"The falls has been there sence the beginnin' o' time, an' I cal'late they'll be there till the end on 't; so you needn't 'a' been in sech a brash to git a sight of 'em. Children comes turrible high, mother, but I s'pose we must have 'em!" he said, winking at Mrs. Cobb. When supper was cleared away Rebecca insisted on washing and wiping the dishes, while Mrs.
Bigsby by Dan'l Borem in his own dialect. "Ez far as I kin see, it was like the Deacon's Sunday hoss trade, bein' all 'Ef it wassent. 'Ef ye wasn't Mrs. Wraggles, sez Lummox, sez he, 'I'd be tellin' ye how I've loved ye ever sence I first seed ye. Ef ye wasn't Mrs. Wraggles, I'd be squeezin' yer hand, sez he; 'ef ye wasn't Mrs.
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