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"You see, they'll keep along on the edge of the desert, so't they can have grass an' water in plenty, an' if you don't pester 'em none they won't go into the Staked Plains at all; but if you push 'em hard they'll run the critters in thar an' leave 'em, hopin' that you will run your hosses an' men to death while you are huntin' 'em up.
Her face had wakened into a keen excitement. "Here!" she called to the Crane boy's brother, who was lingering in the background grinding his toes on the gravel and then lifting them in sudden agony, "you take this kitchen chair and set it down side of him, so't I can climb up." The chair was placed, and Miss Lucindy essayed to climb, but vainly.
I was born on a wayback farm in Connecticut, where the rocks was so thick we used ter round the sheep up once a week an' sharpen thar noses on the grin'stun, so't they could get 'em 'tween the stuns. I walked a mile to school winters, an' stubbed my toes on the farm summers, till I was fourteen, an' then the old man 'greed to give me my time till I was twenty-one if I'ud pay him half I earned.
"He got a letter from some feller up North this mornin' tellin' him if he would trap fifty dozen live quail fur him, he'd pay him so't he could make three dollars a dozen on 'em. I seed Don give him the letter, an' I heard 'em a talkin' and a laughin' about it." "That's what makes me 'spise them Gordons so," said Godfrey, slapping the side of the canoe with his open hand.
I tried to get ten dollars fur you too, pap, but I couldn't do that nuther; so I brung Don Gordon's pinter along. Swum the bayou, I reckon, didn't you?" "I didn't walk acrosst, did I? In course I swum it." "Your clothes ain't wet!" "No, 'kase I went back in the woods an' built a fire an' dried 'em. Le's go back thar now, so't we kin talk. We don't want them fellers to hear us."
If I smoked the best see-gars now all the time, purty soon I'd get so't I wouldn't appreciate 'em. That's why I always keep some of these out-door free-burners on hand. One of them now and then makes the others taste better." The young man had become deaf to the musical old voice. He was writing: "MY DEAR MISS MILBREY: I send you the first and only poem I ever wrote.
"You seem very lonely here," said Richard, glancing round, and at the ceiling. "Lonely?" quoth the farmer. "Well, for the matter o' that, we be! jest now, so't happens; I've got my pipe, and Tom've got his Folly. He's on one side the table, and I'm on t'other. He gapes, and I gazes. We are a bit lonesome. But there it's for the best!" Richard resumed, "I hardly expected to see you to-night, Mr.
Now the Bible says in one place that if a man's sick the elders are to pray over him and anoint him with oil I suppose it was sweet oil; but I don't know that they used. But did you ever know any elder to do that? Naw; they just off for the doctor. Now, I say take the plain word of God, that's set down so't you couldn't noways make any mistakes."
"So't is; but you're consid'able early, if you're makin' for the eight-forty train. See here! you haven't got a needle an' thread 'long of you in that bundle, have you? If you'll sew me on a couple o' buttons, I'll give ye a free ride. I'm in a sight o' distress, an' none o' the fellows is provided with as much as a bent pin." "You poor boy! I'll have you seen to, in half a minute.
"Startin'? Lord! He got me on the hip! Why, HE knew what I wanted that's why he had the inspector up there, so't he'd have me beat before we even started to talk about it. And did you hear him? 'Can't reasonably defend SENTIMENT! And the way he says 'Us': 'Took an option for Us'! 'Stuff piled up on Us'!" There was always an alloy for Mrs. sheridan.
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