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I wisht I did, so't I could tell you when to be on the watch for 'em; but that's one of the things they aint told me, and the only way I can think of for you to beat 'em is to be on your guard night and day, beginning now." While this conversation was going on Marcy and his companion had been riding slowly in the direction of Nashville.
She always likes to see Clementina, and I guess they all do. She's a so't o' pet amongst 'em." "No hurry," said Lander, "I guess my wife ain't quite ready for her yet." "Well, she'll be right out, in a minute or so," said the landlord. The old man tilted his hat forward over his eyes, and went to sit on the veranda and look at the landscape while he waited.
I looked round; there wasn't a soul near me, an' the winders was all dark, so't nobody could see me from the house, and of course they hadn't seen the woman git arristed an' took away.
"If we had a few quail now, we'd have a bully supper, wouldn't we?" continued Dan. "You don't seem to shoot no more quail lately, do you, Davy?" "O, I can't hunt them without a dog to tell me where they are." "Hain't you never heard nothin' from that pinter pup at all?" "Not a word." "I'm sorry. I wish I knowed whar he was, so't I could fetch him hack.
Then I got down an' I strapped that animal so't he couldn't move nothin' but his head an' tail, an' got back into the buggy. Wa'al, bom-by, it may 'a' ben ten minutes, or it may 'a' ben more or less it's slow work settin' still behind a balkin' hoss he was ready to go on his own account, but he couldn't budge.
"What did you say?" asked John. "Nuthin'," said David. "They was all laughin' so't I couldn't git in a word, an' then the waiter brought me another plateful of somethin'. Scat my !" he exclaimed, "I thought that dinner 'd go on till kingdom come. An' wine! Wa'al! I begun to feel somethin' like the old feller did that swallered a full tumbler of white whisky, thinkin' it was water.
Don's got his rifle now and his dogs, too, so't thar ain't no use tryin' to scare him this time. I must hunt a new hidin'-place now." Godfrey stopped in his camp just long enough to seize his rifle and ammunition; after which he plunged into the cane again and ran toward the head of the island.
As I told Lizy Jane, them folks in the big houses have Thanksgivin' dinners every day uv their lives, and men an' women in splendid do's to wait on 'em, so't Thanksgivin' don't mean anything to 'em; but we poor critters, we make a great to-do if we have a good dinner oncet a year. I've saw a pile o' this world, Mrs. Stacey-a pile of it!
It seems as if all the birds and curious trees in Brazil had congregated here to meet us." "So't does," said Barney, stopping to gaze on the scene through which they were passing, with an expression of perplexity on his face, as if he found the sight rather too much even for his comprehension.
"So't have, uncle; I'll go an' search for the box." "Do, my son," said David. In those days lucifer matches had not been invented, and light had to be struck by means of flint, steel, and tinder. The process was tedious compared with the rapid action of congreves and vestas in the present day. The man chipped away for full three minutes before he succeeded in relighting his candle.
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