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Updated: June 15, 2025
"'He's a sp'iled horse, Jonathan Goslee, the minister's hired man, said, 'though you can't make parson think so. He's dead sure to run ag'in. A horse knows when he's got the upper hand, jest as well as a child, and he'll watch his chance to try it over ag'in, you see if he don't.
An' dey 'low dey mus' hab a jack-o'-lantern or de fun all sp'iled. So dat li'l' black boy whut he name is Mose he done got to fotch a pumpkin from de pumpkin-patch down de hollow. So he step'outen de shanty an' he stan' on de doorstep twell he get' he eyes pried open as big as de bottom ob he ma's wash-tub, mostly, an' he say', "Dey ain't no ghosts."
It'd be a pity, says he, 'to have a good match sp'iled for such a little matter, and s'pose you compromise and have me to marry you. "And Amos says, 'I don't know but what that's the best thing that could be done. I'll see Marthy and let you know. And, bless your life, they was married a week from that day.
Dick alone still held his Bible, and looked around him as he went, with fearful glances; but he found no sympathy, and Silver even joked him on his precautions. "I told you," said he, "I told you you had sp'iled your Bible. If it ain't no good to swear by, what do you suppose a sperrit would give for it? Not that!" and he snapped his big fingers, halting a moment on his crutch.
"All right; but why didn't you bring him in?" "Well, wan raison is that he isn't sober yet and she couldn't bring him wid her. The other is that yer Reverence has sp'iled more good pledges on that lad than would kape the Suprame Coort in business for tin years." Father Murray smiled and Ann knew she had made considerable progress, but not quite enough yet. "I'll go and see him to-morrow morning.
"Great grief, Scraggsy! Don't tell me it's sp'iled," cried McGuffey, simulating horror. "No, not quite, Mac, not quite. Just slightly. I s'pose Gib'll tack a sign to the stub o' the main mast: 'Slightly spoiled codfish for sale. Apply to A.P. Gibney, on the premises. Special rates on Friday." Mr. Gibney quivered, but made no reply.
They 'lowed ez 'twar jes' las' night ez them revenue men raided a still-house, somewhar down thar in the valley, an' busted the tubs, an' sp'iled the coppers, an' arrested all the moonshiners ez war thar. An' ef they war ter find out 'bout'n this hyar still-house over yander in the gorge, they'd raid it, too.
I used to be real smart to what I am now, when Perrit was alive; but I took on so, when he was brought home friz to death that it sp'iled my nerves; and then I had to do so many chores out in the shed, I got cold and had the dreadfullest rheumatiz! and when I'd got past the worst spell of that and was quite folksy again, I slipped down on our door-step and kinder wrenched my ankle, and ef't hadn't 'a' been for the neighbors, I don't know but what Nancy and I should 'a' starved."
"''Bout the napkin I sp'iled, I says. 'Mebbe not actially sp'iled, I says, 'but it'll have to go into the wash 'fore it c'n be used agin. She kind o' smiled, an' says, 'Really, Mr. Harum, I don't know what you are talkin' about. "'Hain't nobody told ye? I says. 'Well, if they hain't they will, an' I may 's well make a clean breast on't.
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