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Updated: May 29, 2025
"At what hour, do you think?" "The town clock was a strikin' two, jes as I passed the express office, at the station." "Now, Isam, tell the Court whom you saw, and what happened; and be very careful in all you say, remembering you are on your oath."
If a batted ball goes out iv th' line afther strikin' th' player's hands, is it fair or who? Have ye that tired feelin'? What is your opinion iv a hereafther? Where did you get that hat? If a man has eight dollars an' spends twelve iv it, what will th' poor man do? An' why an' where an' how much?
I wouldn't sleep a wink." "Strikin' ten," said Amos, arising from his rocking-chair and turning it upside down at the back of the porch. "Don't do that, Amos," protested old Caleb. "It'll NEVER rain if you Why, dog-gone it, ain't you learned that it's bad luck to turn a chair bottom-side up when rain's needed?
"Yes," says Walt, "they're strikin' straight fur the valley, goin' 'ithout guess-work, too. Thar's a guide along, an' thar's been a treetur." "Who do you think?" "That Injun, Manoel. Ye remember he went on a errand 'bout a week ago, to fetch them some things that war needed. Instead, he's made diskivery o' the hidin' place o' his master, and sold that master's head. That's what he's did, sure."
There wuzn't ten days' difference in our ages. You wuz ten days the oldest as I have always made out." She screamed right out, "Why, Josiah Allen, where is your conscience to talk in that way and your heart?" "In here, where everybody's is," sez Josiah, strikin' himself with his right hand he meant to strike against his left breast, but struck too low, kinder on his stomach.
"You say they were going to ask. Aren't they?" And Monty's eyes lighted up at the thought of new possibilities. "I convinced them, sir, as how they were getting good pay as it is, sir, and that they ought to be satisfied. They'd be a long time finding a better place and as good wiges. They 'aven't been with you a week, and here they are strikin' for more pay. Really, sir, these American servants "
Let me tell 'im that the workin' men are prepared to suffer that loss. True, they 'ave no big bank accounts to carry 'em on, but there are things that they love more than money liberty and justice and the rights of the people. What are we strikin' for? Nothin' but what is our own. What percentage of the returns does 'e get in wages? They won't tell us that.
He's liftin' barrels wid his teeth, and singin "Garry Owen," Till all the house be strikin' hands, sence Chairley Burke's in town. The Road-Yaird hands coomes dhroppin' in, an' niver goin' back; An' there's two freights upon the switch the wan on aither track An' Mr. Gearry, from The Shops, he's mad enough to swear, An' durstn't spake a word but grin, the whilst that Chairley's there! Och!
There was a teasing wind outside, with a flurry of snow, and she had acknowledged that the irritating weather made her as nervous as a witch. So she had taken to a job to quiet herself. "That clock?" she replied. "That was gran'ther Eli's. It give up strikin', an' then the hands stuck, an' I lost all patience with it. So I bought this nickel one, an' carted t'other off into the attic.
Mine'll rip holes through you the size of walnuts. 'Niver fear; it's me own slugs smell their way with soft noses, an' they'll spread like flapjacks against the coming out beyand. An' when'll I have the pleasure of waitin' on ye? The waterhole's a strikin' locality. ''Tain't bad.
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