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I knew you'd be down on me like a thousand of brick. I I Oh, you don't know what I've been through, Thankful, or you'd pity me, 'stead of pitchin' into me like this. I've been a reg'lar tramp that's what I've been, a tramp. Freezin' and starvin' and workin' in bar-rooms!
Course he'll come down. He'll have to if he gets starvin' hungry. No harm done much. I wonder what he's been up to now! Well, I can't help it. I didn't get him into no scrapes. An' I'll work real hard the rest the afternoon, hemmin' that petticoat Madam's give me to make over for myself.
"That was nothin'. Anyhow you've done lots more for me than ever I did for you," the boy answered, earnestly, "but, Nan, how can rich folks keep their money for themselves when there are people babies, Nan starvin' right here in this city?" "I suppose the rich folks don't know about them," replied the girl, thoughtfully, as she set the table for supper. "I've got to talk it over with Mr.
"You're all right where you are, Rufus," Wallie answered. "When you're down there you are out of mischief." "I'm hungry I'm starvin' " "I don't know when I've eaten such a ham, tender, a delicious flavour, and just enough fat on it I thought of you all through dinner, Rufus." "We've struck water a big flow I can hear it it'll break through any minute!" "That's fine! Splendid!"
You can't do it!" "I can't?" "You can't order only vot you gonna eat." "But then, I don't want anything. I'm not hungry." "But you can't sit here like a dummy, man!" He turned to the waiter. "You bring him de same vot you bring me. Unnerstand? And git a move on, cause I'm starvin'. Fade out now!" And the waiter turned and fled.
His voice trembled as he greeted him: "I never was so glad to see anybody in my life, Pinkey." "This is onct I know you ain't lyin'. Got anything to eat? I'm starvin'. I been comin' sence daylight." "I got something special," Wallie replied, mysteriously. "Tie your horse to the haystack. I'll hurry things up a little." Pinkey returned shortly and sniffed as he entered: "It smells good, anyhow.
But there's one why you and I should hate them, and hate them with all the bittherness that's in us." "And what is it?" said Peg curiously. "I'll tell ye. When yer mother and I were almost starvin', and she lyin' on a bed of sickness, she wrote to an Englishman and asked him to assist her.
"Dunno," said the darky. "We got lost, an' we's been starvin' ever since." By this time two other negroes had emerged from their hiding-place. They had deserted Penrose's command, which was out of rations and in a starving condition. They were trying to make their way back to old Fort Lyon. General Carr concluded, from what they could tell him, that Penrose was somewhere on Polladora Creek.
"God forgive me!" exclaimed the old man, suddenly pausing, as he was about to thrust the last morsel into his mouth; "hunger makes me selfish. I wass forgettin' that you are starvin' too, my tear. Open your mouth." "No, father, I don't want it. I really don't feel hungry." "Elspie, my shild," said old Duncan, in a tone of stern remonstrance, "when wass it that you began to tell lies?"
'Here, you, cried a shrill female voice, as a woman dressed in a flaunting blue gown rushed up to the stall, 'give us a pie quick; I'm starvin'; I've got no time to wait. 'No, nor manners either, said Spilsby, with a remonstrating bleat, pushing a pie towards her; 'who are you, a-shovin' your betters, Portwine Annie?
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