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"No, what?" asked the ladies, expectantly. "Couple of wil' turkeys! Dey was roostin' near his trap, and Mike ain't never had a catch in it this year, so he was feelin' like a mighty poor kind of a trapper, when dese turkeys lit on a line wid his eye. It was some job to cotch bote on em, 'cause one allus flies away soon's a sound is hearn. But, Mike he jest says to hisself, 'By gum!
"But if it can't, we can get a duplicate. And now you just take your time and pick out what you want to wear. I am going up the bench to look around and find Dave's springs. It'll likely take me an hour or so, and you can be ready to start soon's I get back." "Start?" she repeated. "Was you counting on going somewhere?" "My, yes.
Christie repeated her request, and was much relieved, when, after a meditative stare, the old man briefly answered: "Wal, go ahead." "I was afraid you might think it rash or silly, sir." "I think it's the best thing you could do; and I like your good sense in pupposin' on't." "Then I may really go?" "Soon's ever you like.
I'm sending word around to all I kin reach. There's several o' the boys that're home gittin' well o' wounds that'll be glad to help. I'm sendin' buggies for 'em. They can't walk, but they kin stand up and shoot. I'd like to have you come down to the jail as soon's you git through your supper. And, Serg't Klegg, will you take command?
It flickered on the blue spectacles and gave Grandma Padgett a piercing expression while she examined her culprits. "Where have you been, while Zene and I hunted up and down in such distress?" "We's going right back to the tavern soon's he could get us there," Robert hastened to explain. "It's that funny fellow, J. D., Grandma. But he thought we better go roundabout, so they wouldn't catch us."
"Why, this way: you can gulp all you want, so long as you keep swallering; but you can't take the bottle out of your mouth and commence again. Soon's you quit swallering it's Sam's turn." "No; you can have next, Penrod," said Sam. "Well, anyway, I mean M'rice has to give the bottle up the minute he stops swallering." Craft appeared upon the face of Maurice, like a poster pasted on a wall.
"You said yourself the blacksmith wouldn't be back for an hour," she observed. "And you can leave word with the boy what he's to do when he does come. As for dinner, I'll be real glad to give you and Miss Dorcas a snack soon's we get back. I don't mind if it ain't a pleasant day; a little fresh air 'll do me good. I been shut up here house-cleanin' ever since I got back from out West.
Soon's you'se down safe, I'll go out an' lock yo' door ag'in, slip down de sta'rs, an' Marse, when he fin's you'se skipped, will think you'se 'scaped by yo'se'f. But, anyways, I doan much keer ef he does fin' dat ole Dilsey holped you; I hain't feared. He woan dar' tackle me."
Her daughter "Maizie" fetched a long breath and shut her eyes, like she'd seen her finish and was resigned to it. "Well, Mr. Jones," says I, soon's I could get my breath, "this is kind of unexpected, ain't it? Thought you was booked for the main deck." "Yes, sir," he says, polite as a sewing-machine agent, "I was, but Percy and I have exchanged. Cereal this morning, madam?" Mrs.
"After we pass Nashville you kin begin to look out for 'em." "Why," Gid Mackall complained to the rest of them, "Corpril Elliott said that we could begin to look out for guerrillas jest as soon's we crossed the Ohio that the whole o' Kentucky was full of 'em. I believe Corpril Elliott knows more about his business than Sargint Klegg. Sargint Klegg seems careless like.
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