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"Take stiddy aim, boys, and fire as your guns bear on her; you ought not to throw away a shot at this distance." As the lugger came out from behind the Sea-horse, gun after gun was fired, and the white splinters on the side of the brig showed that most, if not all, of the shots had taken effect. O'Grady's gun was the last to speak out, and the shot struck the brig just above the water-line.
"Hi there, it's for you," shouts the leader, and thrusts his hands deep in the wool of one of the ewes. "Come up here, you Southdown with the bare belly," says the man in the wagon. "That's my old game wrastling," the leader remarks, struggling with the next ewe. "Stiddy, stiddy, now I got you, up with you dang you!" "That's the idee," says the man in the wagon.
For he had found "abolitioners the greates' rascals I ever seen. I wants no more ov' em. They tried hard to git me to Canada; but I got all I wants of Canada, An' I tell you, Massa Carpenter, all I wants is one good stiddy home. I don't want this money; it's yourn."
Three on 'em wuz Baptis'es, and two on 'em had jined our meetin' house, deacons, and the old name clung to 'em we spoze because they wuz such good, stiddy men, and looked up to. Take 'em all together there wuz five deacons.
He thinks of stationary dwellings as Long Tom Coffin did of land in general; a house may be well enough for incidental purposes, but for a "stiddy" residence give him a "kerridge." If he is classified in the Linnaean scale, he must be set down thus: Genus Homo; Species Rotifer infusorius, the wheel-animal of infusions.
"Yes, I know you did. And a meaner, low-liveder proposal I never heard from mortal lips, be he male, or be he female. The idee of me, Josiah Allen's wife, who has locked arms with principle, and has kep' stiddy company with it, for years and years the idee of me buyin' a feller! I dare persume to say"
But duty wuz a-callin' us, and the other wimmen also, and it wuzn't for me, nor Sister Sylvester Bobbet to wave her nor them off, or shirk out of hazerdous and dangerous jobs when the good of the Methodist Meetin' House wuz at the Bay. We advanced and boldly mounted up onto our two barells, Miss Gowdy and Sister Sypher a-holdin' two chairs stiddy for us to mount up on.
"Well, that's all right, now. Remember be jest here with all the clo'es ye've got, at ten o'clock, Saturday night ten days off cut 'em in a stick every day the next Saturday after the next one, an' don't git mixed." The boy assured him that he should make no mistake. "When I come, I sh'll bring a hoss and wagin. It'll be a stiddy hoss, and I sh'll come here to this stump, an' stop till I seen ye.
I darsn't till I'd seen you, for I can't do nothin', I'm in such a mess, says the old lady. "'So am I, for I can't get in except by the Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. entry window, and he'll see me, says Kitty, gigglin' at the thoughts of Joe. "'Come down the ladder, there's a dear. I'll pull it round and keep it stiddy, says her mother.
"The damn fool has got her all squegeed eroun' to one side." Bridger reached up a hand and straightened the cup himself. "How's that?" he asked. "All right! Now hold stiddy a minute." Again the Indian women covered their faces, sitting motionless. And at last came again the puff of smoke, the faint crack of the rifle, never loud in the high, rarefied air.
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