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I guess if I got as much money as they say he's got out of it, I'd skedaddle, too." Ruth stepped over and caught the woman sharply by the arm. "What did they say? Tell me, please. Mrs. Apgarth saw that the girl was trembling with excitement and anxiety. She saw that she herself had said too much, or too little. She could not stop at that. She must tell everything now.
Haley will refuse to plead and the case will hatter be taken to a higher court. Why, Jedge Little! this here means life an' repertation to this young man, and his friends aren't goin' ter see no chance throwed away ter clear him and make them school committeemen tuck their tails atween their laigs, an' skedaddle!" "Oh, very well, Jason. We'll set the examination for next Saturday, then?"
"Marse Nick!" she cried, terror-stricken, "she'll done fin' out dat you've been er-talkin'." "Pish!" said Nick with a fine air, "who's afraid of her?" Lindy's face took on an expression of intense amusement. "Yo' is, for one, Marse Nick," she answered, with the familiarity of an old servant. "I done seed yo' skedaddle when she comed." "Tut," said Nick, grandly, "I run from no woman. Eh, Davy?"
"The Yankees skedaddle as though in haste But this thirty-two pounder howitzer imp It makes them halt and it makes them limp, This railroad gun on a flat car placed." "Hurry up there! Hurry up! Hurry! Steam's up! Coal's precious! Can't stay here burning diamonds like this all day!" "Come on!" said the artilleryman. "I can sit down and dig. We've got to clear that thing away in a hurry."
*1 It may he interesting to note here that in all probability the word "skedaddle," about which there was some controversy during the war, came from the Virginia negro's use of "skaddle," which is a corruption of "scatter." The matter, however, is hardly worth referring to.
They were startled when a big hand dropped on each of their heads. "You kids skedaddle," ordered a big man. "If you want to see things, come back at four." By four o'clock the grown folks were home, tired and smelling of fish; Dick and Rose-Ellen were prancing on tiptoe to go, and even Jimmie was ready. "This is what he is like," said Rose-Ellen, "the man who said we could."
I hung the duck from this nail the cord was good and strong, and it couldn't have broken loose. You see it ain't there now. So the question is did the blamed bird come to life again and skedaddle off, or was one of your friends the foxes aboard while we snoozed, to make way with my fat duck? Anyhow, it's gone, dead sure, and that's no lie." "I see it is.
I implore you go!" her eyes filled. "I will; I'll go," said the man, with a soft chuckle intended for self-abasement. "I go, thou goest, he goes. 'I'll skedaddle, as the felleh says.
'Scoot, skedaddle, vamoos the ranch, git off the earth, I says, 'if you ain't aimin' to git your head punched. "Well, sir, he stood there a minute with his head cocked sidewise, kinder grunted once as if he was saying 'good-night, and turned off the road into the brush and went about his business, and I poked along up to the Stoneman.
That'll start him, and I'll see that he goes into the woods fur enough, so that the rest of you can rush up, grab every man his turkey, and skedaddle. Winch 'll show you the way; he says he knows the pen. 'Charge, Ellis, charge! On, Harris, on! Shall be the words of private John. But who'll go first to the house?" asked Seth, coming down from the high key in which he usually got off his poetry.
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