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Updated: June 13, 2025
There was Ad'line and Susan Ellen fussin' an' bickerin' yesterday about who'd got to have me next; and, Lord be thanked, they both wanted me right off but I hated to hear 'em talkin' of it over. I'd rather live to home, and do for myself." "I've got consider'ble used to boardin'," said Jefferson, "sence ma'am died, but it made me ache 'long at the fust on 't, I tell ye.
She's a white angel with a little coffee in her blood, but it's ole Goverment Javey an' more than half cream!" Here Levin laughed loudly, and said that Jack must have learned that out of a book. "Oh," said Jack, shutting one eye hard and joining in the grin, "sence I ben in love I kin say lots o' smart things like that.
And she told me how hard she had worked ever sence she had been gone. She had been to some of the biggest temperance meetin's, and had done every thing she could with her influence and her money. She was willin' to spend her money like rain-water, if it would help any. But she said it seemed as if the powers against it was greater than ever, and she was heart-sick and weary.
You see, in the old French war, there was an English spy among the French, that dressed hisself up as a woman, an was familiarly known, among the British generals an others that emply'd him, as 'Petticoat Jack. He did much to contriboot to the defeat of the French; an arter they were licked, the first settlers that went up thar called the place, in honor of their benefacture, 'Petticoat Jack; an it's bore that name ever sence.
She walked into the pantry, where she gave the shelves a critical survey, and then, returning to the kitchen, looked about her once more. "If it's one day sence I've been down sullar," she said aloud, "it's two year." She 'was lighting a candle as she spoke. In another moment, she was taking sprightly steps down the stairs into the darkness below.
I put deze feets in motion, yer hyeard me! an' I kep' 'em er gwine, too, tell I come ter de outskirts uv de quarters; an' eber sence den I ain't stopped no Injun wat I sees in de road, an' I ain't meddled 'long o' who kilt Sis Leah, nudder, caze she's ben in glory deze fifty years or mo', an' hit's all one to her now who sculpt her."
In the midst of this impassable wall a purple notch could be seen. "Ever sence I've been here," said Mose, with singular emotion, "I've looked away at that range and I've been waiting my chance to see what that cañon is like. There runs my trail good-by." He shook hands hastily with Cora, heartily with Mrs. Reynolds, and kissed Pink, who said: "Bring me a little bear or a fox."
Don't let's have no more chin music. We know what you want and what you called this meetin' for; now let's vote on it. "Three or four sung out 'Question' and 'Vote. But Elkanah held up his hand. "'Gentlemen, says he, 'before I ask for the vote I want to say just one word. I've worshiped in this meetin' house ever sence I was a child.
"I guess that's about the size of it." "When did you see him last?" "Hain't seen nothin' of him sence las' night, an' then he was sorter crusty an' didn't say much. I come down this mornin' an' went to work, he allus left the stable key where I could get it, but I ham' t seen nor heard nothin' o' him.
Tenney sat rigid under her touch, and she went on, pouring out the mother sorrow that was the more overwhelming because it had been locked in her so long. "Isr'el, I could tell you every minute o' my life sence you married me. If 'twas wrote down, you could read it, an' 'twould be Bible truth. An' if God has laid His hand on that poor baby Isr'el, you take that back.
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