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Updated: June 22, 2025
"I ain't never bowed my haid to Minty Brown an' I ain't a-goin' to do it now," was his mother's only reply. "Oh, ma," Kitty put in, "you don't want to get talked about up here, do you?" "We 'd jes' as well be talked about fu' somep'n we did n't do as fu' somep'n we did do, an' it would n' be long befo' we 'd come to dat if we made frien's wid dat Brown gal. I ain't a-goin' to do it.
Tasted a good deal like syrup. But it sure put Bull out." Bull turned a pair of inflamed eyes on the musician. "You keep on a-talkin', and I'll hang somep'n on your eye," said Bull, hoarsely. Then he replaced his head in his hands. The Salvation Army man laughed at the interlude and then returned to the player. "See," said he, "it goes like this " He hummed the wonderful old hymn.
"Lucky fer ye thet yo' struck a cabin whar the latch string air allus out," she answered, her silver laughter echoing his. "I hadn't a' ought ter hev been so skeered, but I warn't payin' no attention ter all the barkin', fer I jest allowed thet the dawgs hed treed a coon, er somep'n. Yo' see they haint exactly fond o' strangers, an' they be powerful fierce.
Pray, didn't I first sajest our doing somep'n with the bugs we'd never forget, and if the fish man gives us five dollars for 'em won't we remember it all our lives, pray? And, pray, what part did you think up of all this, pray?
V.V. did not know that from that day dated her preference for white dresses, as compared with red.... "Settin' on a velvet settee you was," whispered Kern, her hand picking at the sheet, "by a founting, a boy with wings and a pink lamp on his head, pourin' water out of a gool' pitcher. And I went runnin' over to you to ast you must I go or somep'n.
"But in regards to that, I haven't had any," she went on, airily "not for years and years and years and " He interrupted her, his voice again plaintive. "See here, Florence, how do you expect me to get my work done, with you everlastin'ly talkin' and goin' on around here like this? Can't you see I've got somep'n pretty important on my hands?" Florence became thoughtful.
"If you won't come with me, Florrie, s'pose you just call in the front door and tell your mother to get 'em for me." "Oh, they're somewhere in there," Florence said coldly, not ceasing to swing her foot, and not turning her head. "You can find 'em by yourself, I presume, or if you can't I'll have our maid throw 'em out in the yard or somep'n to-morrow." "Well, thank you!"
"Try and be a lady anyway for a few minutes, can't you? I got to figure out how much we got to charge you for your ole poem, don't I?" "Well, then," Florence returned, "you better ask me somep'n about that, hadn't you?" "Well," said Henry Rooter, "have you got any money at home?" "No, I haven't." "Have you got any money with you?" "Yes, I have." "How much is it?" "I won't tell you."
"Somebody tells Harve Hall, up thar at a dance on Hell-fer-Sartain one Christmas night, that Rich Harp had said somep'n' agin him an' Nance Osborn. An' somebody tells Rich that Harve had said sompe'n' agin Nance an' HIM. Hit was one an' the same feller, stranger, an' the feller was Abe. Well, while Rich an' Harve was a-gittin' well, somebody runs off with Nance. Hit was Abe.
V.V.'s sorry like he wanted to do something, and something in him knewed all the time he couldn't ever." "Somep'n in him knewed jever hear such foolishness! I'll take the broom to this floor. You go along to bed now. Didn't I hear you promise him?" "Mommer, I'm going. Only I druther of went to the party," said Kern.
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