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Updated: May 1, 2025
"D'know," said Oncle Jazon, resuming his habitual expression of droll dignity, "she shot apast me jes' as thet thing busted loose, an' she went like er hummin' bird, skitch! jes' thet way an' I didn't see 'r no more. 'Cause I was skeert mighty nigh inter seven fits; 'spect that 'splosion blowed her clean away! Ventrebleu! never was so plum outen breath an' dead crazy weak o' bein' afeard!"
'It's jest a fancy skitch, says he; "'tain't nothin' 't ever slammed around in shoes, says he." "I bought a pair o' black stockings," said the voice of a young matron. "I remember 'cause I wore 'em the very day that Johnny swallowed six buttons and smut! wal " A picture too dark for the imagination was relieved by the hum of a discussion now bravely finding voice on the male side of the house.
"He did so. I bought a pictur' 't was named 'Logan. It's a fancy skitch, I guess, 'but I'm goin' to have that pictur', Cap'n Nason Ted, says I, 'ef 't takes every egg the hens is ekil to from now t' deer-stalkin', says I. It jest completely drored me somehow; it had sech a feelin' look." "Did Nason let ye buy it?" "Yis, he did; but he was dreadful sneakish an' j'ilous.
"You will scarcely praps reckonize in this little skitch* the haltered linimints of 1, with woos face the reders of your valluble mislny were once fimiliar, the unfortnt Jeames de la Pluche, fomly so selabrated in the fashnabble suckles, now the pore Jeames Plush, landlord of the 'Wheel of Fortune' public house.
I had hardly time to make him realize how great an indiscretion he had committed." The merchant still sat perfectly still, tapping the table with his black ebony ruler. "Of course, afther hearing a skitch of the plan," continued the major, "me curiosity was so aroused that I could not help following the details with intherest.
"Hallo, Geo'ge!" exclaimed the negro, "what you bin up to makin' picturs?" "Only a little sketch," said Foster, holding it up. "A skitch!" repeated Peter, grasping the letter, and holding it out at arm's length with the air of a connoisseur, while he compared it with the original. "You call dis a skitch? Well! I neber see de like ob dis no, neber. It's lubly.
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