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Updated: June 14, 2025
"That's like Paw," she soliloquized aggrievedly; "shuttin' us up and settin' dogs on everybody for a week, and then lettin' the whole stage service pass through one door and out at another. Well, it's HIS house and HIS whiskey, and they kin take it, but they don't get me to help 'em." They certainly were not a prepossessing or good-natured acquisition to the party.
Can't you see he's so sleepy that it's only the exercise of openin' his mouth to eat that keeps his eyes from shuttin'? How about that, son?" It was perfectly true.
An' what is still more, he could, by shuttin' your eyes, in the same way prove black to be white, an' white black, jist as asy." "Surely myself doesn't doubt it. I suppose, by shuttin' my eyes, the same lad could prove anything to me." "But, Dinny, avourneen, you didn't prove Phadrick to be an ass yit. Will you do that by histhory, too, Dinny, or by the norrations of Illocution?"
A crowd had gathered to hear Gilly be wrathful about his roommate's latest sins. "He said, 'Oh, I don't like the windows open at night, he said, 'except only a little bit," complained Gilly. "Don't let him boss you." "Boss me? You bet he won't. I open those windows, I guess, but the darn fool won't take turns shuttin' 'em in the morning." "Make him, Gilly, why don't you?" "I'm going to."
He buttoned up his coat tightly, then turned to throw a last glance at Bessie. He had always disliked his father's second wife, and his sense of triumph was boundless. 'Oh! yer not hurt, he said; 'yer shammin. I advise yer to look sharp with shuttin up. Father'll be up the hill in two or three minutes now. Sorry I can't 'elp yer, now yer've set me up so comfortabul. Bye-bye!
"'Not much, says Jone, givin' a pull which brought me right up to the top o' the wall an' almost clean down the other side, with one jerk. 'I never knowed no officers that would do that. But, says he, a kind o' shuttin' his eyes so that she shouldn't see he was lyin', 'we'll talk about that when we come back.
"He's got the lonesomeness," said Dad, "and I tell you, John, when that gits a hold of a man he ain't responsible. It's the same as shuttin' a man up in jail to break him off of booze say, he'll claw the rocks out of the wall with his finger nails to git out where he can take a snort." "I never had the lonesomeness, so I don't know, but there's something the matter with the kid."
"I kinder felt it a bad sign when Marse Jeff Bucknor up'n took hisse'f off to Lou'ville, an' now this talk 'bout the fambly a goin' ter furren parts an' a shuttin' up Buck Hill. Th'ain't no good gonter come of it but howsomever we's gotter pack up an' leave." "But where are we going, Billy? Cousin Big Josh " "Lawsamussy, Miss Ann, please don't mention that there domercile!
It's my opinion the young feller's at the bottom of it, they say his father's well off; 't enny rate, it's fixed, an' you're better off 'n you wuz, exceptin', uv course, your affliction, an' that can't be helped." The man composed his voice very much as he would have straightened a corpse in which he had no personal interest. "I'm in fer shuttin' up."
"'What'll you do with 'em? he says to me, kind o' shuttin' his jaws together. "'I'll take care on 'em, I says. 'They mayn't be good enough to send down to New York, I says, 'but they'll go around here all right jest as good as any other, I says, 'long 's you keep 'em movin'."
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