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I'll be her nurse, and I'll gang aboot on my stockin' soles as canny as pussy." And so he did; and handy and clever, and swift and tender as any woman, was that horny-handed, snell, peremptory little man. Everything she got he gave her: he seldom slept; and often I saw his small shrewd eyes out of the darkness, fixed on her. As before, they spoke little.
"Nate got up and tiptoed acrost the room. He was in his stockin' feet, so he didn't make a sound. He reached into the corner and took out his old duck gun. It was loaded, both barrels. Nate cocked the gun and crept down the back stairs.
I got there six months after: to New York, you know. I found in an old paper jes' these words: 'The woman, Ellen Myers, found dead yesterday on one of the docks, was identified. Died of starvation and whiskey. That was Nelly, as used to hang up her stockin' with me. Christian people read that. But nobody cried but me." "They're tryin' to help them now at the Five Points there."
And then, when it went away, it could take along the things that was hangin' on the tree, and keep 'em fer its own." "That wouldn't work," said Captain Cephas. "If you get a child into this business, you must let it hang up its stockin' before it goes to bed, and find it full in the mornin', and then tell it an all-fired lie about Santa Claus if it asks any questions.
"Yeh, but I bet she will. Do you reckon she'll ever come back to the ranch any more when she goes away?" "What?" said Lambert, starting as if he had been asleep. "Vesta; do you reckon she'll ever come back any more?" "Well," slowly, thoughtfully, "there's no tellin', Taterleg." "She's got a stockin' full of money now, and nobody dependin' on her.
I hadn't quit when I got married, an' I think that's a poor time to stop, don't you? Partic'larly when you marry a man twice-t yo' age, an' can't convince him thet you're grown, noways. Yas, indeedy, that stockin' goes up to-night not mine, neither, but one I borry from Aunt Jane Peters. I don't wonder y' all laugh.
Maybe there'll be enough left in the stockin' to buy a few knickknacks for the yard. You can't tell." The captain glanced at the iron dogs guarding the Atkins gate. His tone was rather sharp. "Yes, yes, certainly; certainly; of course. It gives me much pleasure to have you as a neighbor.
Sum ob de oberseers on urthur plantations would tie de slaves ter a stake en gib dem a good whup'in fer sump'in dey ought not ter done." "All cul'ed people wore cotton goods en de younger boys run 'round in der shurt tails. Mah Missis nit all de white chilluns stockin' en she made me sum.
We was as happy, sir, as two porpusses, which they toil not neither do they spin. But when I seed the money gittin' low in the locker Kitty's starboard stockin', savin' your presence, marm I got down-hearted like, seem' as I should be obleeged to ship agin, for it didn't seem as I could do much ashore. An' then the sea was my nat'ral spear of action.
He had first come into that locality when Barbie was two years old, buyin' the big Sembrick ranch an' stockin' it up to the limit. Ye never said a word about his wife, nor his past; an' Jabez wasn't just the sort of character a man felt like pryin' private history out of. The men laughed a good bit about the time Jabez had had with the Spike Crick school.
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