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Updated: May 26, 2025
It was like Noah's Ark washed ashore an' lyin' thar to dry. Thar was six hosses so thin you could read through 'em without yore specs, three big road-wagons heavy enough to haul steam-engines on, the little, teensy pony with a bob-tail that the clown driv' in the procession, an' the little red-an'-green streaky wagon that he rid in.
The medium, like many others, incorrectly pronounced the term "deceased," the same as "diseased" sounding the s like z. The old gentleman carefully adjusted his "specs" and did what was required of him. A name and relationship having been selected from those written, the investigator was desired to examine and state if they referred to one party. "Wal, I declare they do!" said he.
"I suppose it's just part of the funny things that happens back here. Such things as a person does see on a vacation! Don't it beat all? Now I caught Hattie walking off towards the electric light last night with a young man that had specs and leather leggins like the officers has, and I declare if she didn't tell me he was a perfessor of geology down at Salt Lake or Omaha.
'Oh, fix it so, certainly certainly fix it so, replied his lordship, filling his mouth full of gingerbread. 'Suppose we have it on the day of the races? continued Amelia. 'Couldn't be better, replied his lordship; 'couldn't be better, repeated he, eyeing her intently through his formidable specs.
Maw does not worry about a room with bath, though sometimes when the rain comes through the old wall tent she gets both. The pink and green war paint which you sometimes see beneath Maw's specs when you meet her on the road represents only the mark of the bedquilts, where the colors were not too proud to run. Maw finds it wonderful in these mountains.
Unc., you kin pray all you wants, but ef you specs de Lawd ter listen you'se got ter pray like a man an not like a hog dat wants his dinnah. You'se 'sturbin everybody wuss dan you did wen you got sot on. I won hab it said my folks made a rumpus in dis time ob trouble. You'se got ter min me, Mr. Buggone, or I'se hab you took out de squar."
All eyes were immediately turned toward Sally Johnson, who was seated near Sam. "I 'specs I see somebody blush at dat remark," said Alfred. "Pass dem pancakes an' 'lasses up dis way, Mr. Alf., and none ob your 'sinuwashuns here," rejoined Sam. "Dat reminds me," said Agnes, "dat Dorcas Simpson is gwine to git married." "Who to, I want to know?" inquired Peter. "To one of Mr.
He took up the lists of accounts he had been busy on when first interrupted by Nicky and began to examine them. He had to hold them far away from his eyes and even then to pucker up his lids before he could quite make them out. Georgie watched him. "You know, Ishmael, you want specs," she said suddenly. "I'm sure of it!
'Rot it! roared Jack, jumping up, 'don't ride over a fellow that way! When, shaking himself to try whether any limbs were broken, he found he was in his dress clothes instead of in the roomy garments of the Flat Hat Hunt. 'Who are you? where am I? what the deuce do you mean by breaking my specs? he exclaimed, squinting frightfully at his host. 'My dear sir, exclaimed Mr.
"Trade you my pinto for a steer," offered still another. "Nothin" doin'! That hoss of yours has got colic bad." "Swap this here goat for that rooster of yours," said "Sinker," a youth whose early education in art had been neglected. "Goat? You box-head! That's a calf. Kind 'a' mired down, but it's sure a calf. And this ain't no rooster. This here's a eagle settin' on his eggs. You need specs."
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