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Updated: May 9, 2025
And I sez, "You may as well spend your money travelin' as in any other way." "Yes, I love to travel when I can travel with human creeters, and I might as well spend my money for myself as to leave it for my cousins to fight over, and I can pay my way mostly sellin' my book; and I've left my stuff so it won't spile." "Where is Waitstill Webb?" sez I.
I got an inwention as bright as bran new pewter button. I'll shave de head of a tief close and smooth. Dat will keep his head warm in de sun, and cool at night; do him good. He can't go courtin' den, when he ab 'no wool whar de wool ought to grow, and spile his 'frolicken, and all de niggaroons make game ob him. It do more good praps to tickle fancy ob niggars dan to tickle dere hide.
Then he grew merrier, and began to sing: "Oh, Shakspeare, Homer, an' all the poets Have sung for ages the praise av woine; But if they iver had tasted whiskey, They'd have called it the only dhrink divoine. "Oh, wud ye have a receipt for toddy? Av whiskey ye take a quart, I think; Thin out av a pint av bilin' wather Ivery dhrop ye add will spile the dhrink!"
There was a short, sharp conflict in Amarilly's conscience before she convinced herself it would not be wrong to allow the impromptu choir to don the surplices of St. Mark's. "They wouldn't spile 'em jest awearin' 'em onct," she argued sharply, for Amarilly always "sassed back" with spirit to her moral accuser. "'Tain't as if they wa'n't agoin' into the wash as soon as they take 'em off.
"Well, it can; because he said: Have it that way, then, but it'll spile the hull blamed trip for me!" Perkins. It was a cold blustering day with a high wind that promised to bring an early fall of snow. The trees were stripped bare of leaves, the ground was hard, and the wagon wheels rattled noisily over the thank-you-ma'ams. "I'm glad I wore my Paisley shawl over my cloak," said Miranda.
When hunger pressed, I took a small portion, sufficient to stop its gnawings. I suffered chiefly from thirst, as I was afraid of getting up to go to the water-butt, lest I should be thrown over to the opposite side after I had drawn out the spile, before I could catch any water as it spouted out, and that much of it would be lost.
Chillis?" asked the woman, hesitatingly, seeing that he seemed waiting to be invited. "Thankee. But I shall spile your floor, ef I do. I'm a perfect sponge, not fit to come near a lady, nohow.
"That's another thing," he said; "don't tetch it. You'll break a rule. No member of the family an' that means me an' you, for we can claim kin by adoption, if not by blood no member is allowed to do dirty work o' any sort. Ben never allowed it, an' Het says the same rule must hold. She says it would spile the help an' git 'em out o' the right sort o' habits.
Hold on, I says; 'take me hat and let me have yours, for I don't git a good hat every day, and the bag's that dirty it'll spile it. "'Go on, he says; 'I've carried it all the way from the yard and me back's broke. Well, I pulled his hat ever me eyes and started up the stairs wid the bag on me shoulder.
'Tan't, you know, as if it was white folks, that's brought up in the way of 'spectin' to keep their children and wives, and all that. Niggers, you know, that's fetched up properly, ha'n't no kind of 'spectations of no kind; so all these things comes easier." "I'm afraid mine are not properly brought up, then," said Mr. Shelby. "S'pose not; you Kentucky folks spile your niggers.
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