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Updated: May 9, 2025
Hit don't take more'n one good, perseverin' hypocrite in the chu'ch to spile the name o' chu'ch-member as fur as ye can holler it.
It did seem to me that if I got through all right with Josiah, she wuz that soft and meller she would spile on my hands anyway. But she wuz the only one on his side available in the position of second chaperone to Josiah and so I took my chances.
And always, when a thing of this natur's to come off, what I stand up for, is, a proper frame of mind. Let's have a proper frame of mind, and we can go through with it, creditable pleasant sociable. I'd sooner by half, though I lose by it, see a man tear his clothes a' purpose to spile 'em before they come to me, than find him snivelling. It's ten to one a better frame of mind, every way!
"Levin, I kin show you how to plough: I can't do it, but you're the man." "Cyrus, Huldy don't hate you. She says you're the nighest to a friend she's got." "Oh, I love her like sugar-cane," the lean, cymlin-headed servant said. "Tell her I'm goin' to be a great man. I'm goin' to spile the game. They lick me, but Cy Jeems has courage, Levin." "Cyrus, tell Huldy all that's goin' on agin her.
And under the very pleasant sponsorship of my senatorial friend, I was placed at once on genial terms with half the citizens of the little town from the shirt-sleeved nabob of the county office to the droll wag of the favorite loafing- place the rules and by-laws of which resort, by the way, being rudely charcoaled on the wall above the cutter's bench, and somewhat artistically culminating in an original dialect legend which ran thus: F'r instunce, now, when SOME folks gits To relyin' on theyr wits, Ten to one they git too smart And SPILE it all, right at the start!
Father and Brother Hiram did the tapping, using an axe to cut the gash in the tree, and to drive in the gouge below it to make a place for the spile, while one of my younger brothers and I carried the pans and placed them in position.
Now, if Mammy's ghost is meanderin' round, why, et's about time she left the cemetery and put in an appearance in Jackson's Hall. Thet's all!" "Look yar, boys," said Robinson, rising, "I don't know ez it's the square thing to spile Daddy's fun. I don't object to it, provided she ain't takin' in the old man, and givin' him dead away.
"In spite of Cap'en Jiggins' praise, I never sailed in such an out-and- out obstinate craft as that identical Cranky Jane. She seemed to have been laid down on the lines and constructed, plank by plank, especially to spile a man's temper!
"'Is it berry bad to swaller, sais I, 'Missus? I is most afeard it will spile the 'finement of my taste. "'Try it, sais she, and I shut to my eyes, and made awful long face, and swallowed it jist dis way. "'By golly, sais I, 'Missus, but dat is grand. What is dat? "'Clove, water, said she. "'Oh, Missus, sais I, 'dat is plaguy trong water, dat are a fac, and bery nice flavoured.
"That dog bosses me around somethin' scandalous," Bud was wont to remark, as he rose from his labors and prepared for bed. "There I was huntin' around for that chord I lit on the other night and almost findin' it, when he has to howl like a coyote with a sore throat and spile the whole thing. I ought to learned more tunes."
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