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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Yo' have the right spirit, boy," the old man said, "an' I like to see it, but you're huntin' trouble sure's you're born. S'posin' yo' asked the questions of some ol' sorehead that wouldn' answer?" "He'd have to answer," replied Hamilton stoutly, "there's a law to make him." "I don't believe that law's used much," hazarded the old man. "It isn't," Hamilton found himself forced to admit.
"Don't you take him in!" exclaimed Angeline, the kitchen girl; "it's a bad sign to have birds come fluttering round a window." "What do you mean by a sign?" asked Dotty, who had never heard of any silly superstitions in her life. "Let him alone," cried Johnny, "or you'll die before the week's out, sure's you live!" Dotty laughed.
He was the worst writer, speller and reader in the school. Think o' him being a telegraph operator. Why, he couldn't spell well enough to make tally-marks on a door when you're measurin' corn. Railroad was mighty hard up for help when it hired him. Let me read that dispatch. 'Josiah not killed. That means Si Klegg, as sure's you're born.
What's the laddie aboot? 'Do ye mean whan he gangs up the stair, mem? 'Ay. Ye ken weel eneuch what I mean. 'Weel, mem, I tell ye I dinna ken. An' ye never heard me tell ye a lee sin' ever I was i' yer service, mem. 'Na, nae doonricht. An' that's hoo ye win oot o' 't. Noo! 'Weel, as sure's deith, I dinna ken. Ye drive me to sweirin', mem, an' no to leein'. 'I carena.
Squire Woodbridge an Ginral Ashley an Doctor Sergeant, Cap'n Jones an schoolmaster Gleason, an a slew more o' the silk stockins be a goin' tew." "Are you going to murder them?" exclaimed the frantic woman. "Wal," drawled Meshech, "that depends. Ef govment hangs any o' our fellers wat they've got in jail, we're gonter hang yewr husban' an the res' on em, sure's taxes.
"And did he say that father took old Billy's gold?" she asked. "Are you sure?" "Sure's I'm livin'. He said it, and he called him a rogue and me a a bad name!" Dan was about to tell what that name was, but the word stuck in his throat, and he found it impossible to bring it forth. "Sucker and sponger!" how those words stung him. How contemptuously his father had always spoken of such people.
It's the grandest luck a new camp ever struck. Say, did you see him collar them little rags and dirt and things? What an eye! He just can't overlook a clue 'tain't in him." "That's so. And they wouldn't mean a thing to anybody else; but to him, why, they're just a book large print at that." "Sure's you're born!
"Only I quit cold the minute I caught on ter whut wus up. I never know'd she wa'n't no nigger till after we got yere. Sure's yer live that's true. Only then I didn't know whut else ter do, so I got bilin' drunk." "You are willing to work with me, then?" "Yer kin bet I am; I ain't no gurl-stealer." "Then listen, Kennedy.
"You did make that just magnificent, Polly!" "If you could see yourself," giggled Polly; "did you put it in the straw bed? and are you sure you pulled the ticking over it smooth?" "Yes, sir," replied Ben, "sure's my name's Ben Pepper! if you'll only keep them from seeing me when I'm in it till we're ready that's all I ask." "Well," said Polly a little relieved, "but I hope Joe won't look."
Ye 'ill hunt us into Bulldog's class-room, and then go off yirsel to shoot rabbits; but ye 'ill no' play ony tricks on me, Peter McGuffie." "I will go," said Speug, manfully, "though I'll no' promise to write." "Say as sure's death," said Jock, knowing Speug's wiles.
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