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I knew that you fellers was frightened to death when you seed the snake, but of course I wasn't going to say so, 'cos if I had, it would have sp'ilt all. O, no; I know'd better than all that, by a long chalk. Putty good coffee this, ain't it?" We were silent with astonishment and admiration at his matchless impudence.
"Oh, it's sp'ilt!" groaned the old lady. "I can never wear it arter this. And it cost four dollars and sixty-two cents and a half without the ribbon. Oh, deary me!"
Wall, sir, he come yowlin' hum, and when he see me he did look saour, no use talkin', jest ez ef he wuz a-sayin', 'Yer think you're paowerful cunnin' with yer b'ar-traps, don't ye? Jest see what it's done to my tail. It's kinder sp'ilt me for a dog. All my fault, warn't it, George?" patting his head.
Whyn't yo' come on, dawg?" The setter sauntered slowly up to the fence and stopped without even deigning a look at the speaker, who immediately proceeded to take the rails down, talking meanwhile: "Now, I got to pull down de gap, I s'pose! Yo' so sp'ilt yo' kyahn' hardly walk. Jes' ez able to git over it as I is!
"Don't scold him when he leaves the doors open. Don't tell him to wipe his feet. Don't ever mention gold-mines or shiftless husbands," etc., etc. All these triumphs of Blossy's intuition served naturally to spur the others on to do even more for Brother Abe than they had already done, until the old man began to worry for fear that he should "git sp'ilt."
"Beadle got that last lot from Jenkins there, his son-in-law, and it's sp'ilt. I could have told him that beforehand. Never knew Jenkins to do the fair thing by anybody yet." "Who's going down?" said I, stopping short. I felt the blood run all over my face, like a woman's. "Cullen hasn't made up his mind yet," says Bob, walking off.
Whyn't yo' come on, dawg?" The setter sauntered slowly up to the fence and stopped, without even deigning a look at the speaker, who immediately proceeded to take the rails down, talking meanwhile: "Now, I got to pull down de gap, I s'pose! Yo' so sp'ilt yo' kyahn hardly walk. Jes' ez able to git over it as I is!
I believe they had had chills; it sounded like it. Take it altogether, I don't believe anybody got much satisfaction out of it, only Cephas. S. Annie sp'ilt her dress and bonnet entirely they wuz wilted all down; and she ordered another suit jest like it before she slept. Wall, the next mornin' early two men come with plans for monuments.
When the war is over an' the men come back to the Cove, none of 'em will so much as look at ye, with yer skin all pock-marked fair an' fine as it is now, like a pan of fraish milk." "But, granny, it won't be sp'ilt! The camp war too fur off an' thar warn't a breath o' wind. I never went a-nigh 'em."
I guess I'm purty nigh sp'ilt, an' it cost me fifty cents t' do it. "'An' all yer common sense, tew, says I." A number got aboard, and the train started. Rip Enslow was on the rear platform, his faithful hound galloping gayly behind the train. Some one had tied him to the brake rod. Nearly a score of dogs followed, barking merrily.
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