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"Ez for that soft-headed Bud Mines, he have fair fattened on that snipe-hunt. He's gittin' ez sassy an' mischeevous ez Jack Carter hisse'f." This last statement was literally true. The victim of Tobe Cullum's disastrous practical joke had become on a sudden case-hardened, as it were. The consumptive pallor had miraculously disappeared from his cheeks and the homesick look from his eyes.
Bud Hines, in the rear with the others, was in a quiver of excitement. He stumbled along, shifting Sid Northcutt's rifle from one shoulder to the other, and listening open-mouthed to Jack Carter's directions. "You know, Bud," said that young gentleman, gravely, "it ain't every man that gets a chance to go on a snipe-hunt. And if you've got any grit " "I've got plenty of it," interrupted Mr.
Consternation reigned the "len'th an' brea'th" of Jim-Ned. Mrs. Cullum placid and easy-going Mrs. Tobe under the same roof with him, actually had not spoken to her lawful and wedded husband since the snipe-hunt ten days ago come Monday! "It's plumb scan'lous!" Mrs. Pinson exclaimed, at her daughter's quilting. "I never would of thought sech a thing of Sissy never!"
En I know say if I git outer dis place Mr. Morris'll kill me sho des sho. So I like fuh stay yer berry well." And the teacher went away, wondering if her work if any work would avail; and what answer the future would have for this awful problem. A Snipe-Hunt A Story of Jim-Ned Creek "I ain't sayin' nothin' ag'inst the women o' Jim Ned Creek ez women," said Mr.
Hines, vaingloriously. He was, indeed, inwardly and outwardly bursting with pride. "I thought they tuk me for a plumb fool," he kept saying over and over to himself. "They ain't never noticed me before 'cepn to make fun of me; an' all at oncet Mr. Tobe Cullum an' Mr. Newt Pinson ups an' asts me to go on a snipe-hunt, an' even p'oposes to give me the best place in it. An' I've got Mr.
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