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"Oh yes, Missus," replied Holly, "if you'll only 'tice the old cat somewhere and shut her up. She'd 'spect suthin' if she saw me, and there'd be no gittin' rid of her; and if she once ketched us at the bisness, she'd scratch our very eyes out cats is always dreadful skeery about their kittens."
"For you, Miss Watkins," cried the newcomer, gracefully offering his homage, "with the assurance of my sincere regret that I came on the scene too late to have been making a scene with you fifty years ago." "I didn’t quite catch that," said Aunt Mary, rapturously. But never mind,—Granite, get a tin basin or suthin’ for these flowers." "Where’s Burnett?" Jack asked the newcomer,—"isn’t he dressed?
Sez I, a lookin' over my specks at Ardelia after I had finished readin' the verses: "What does 'ron' mean? I never heerd of that word before, nor knew there wuz sech a one." Sez she, "I meant ran, but I s'pose it is a poetical license to say 'ron, don't you think so?" "Oh, yes," sez I, "I s'pose so, I don't know much about licenses, nor don't want to, they are suthin' I never believed in.
They had ridden through a storm which had shaken and smitten the earth with its thunder-bolts some of which had fallen near them. Mr. Lockwood directed them to leave their wagons on a large empty barn floor and asked them in to supper. "If you'll bring suthin' out to us, I guess we better stay by her," said Solomon. "She might be nervous." "Do you have to stay with this stuff all the while?"
"Ah, poor lad, I forgot you was a orphing. Well, you see, I think it must ha' bin a love o' change or a love o' discontent, or suthin' o' that sort, as brought me cruising in these here waters, for I can't say what else it was. You see I was born a sort o' ro-oh " "Look out! a badger-hole!" shouted the boy.
They drove off in the morning brightness, and Eben declared he had a good mind to give away his remaining essences and put for home as hard as he could pelt. "We might cut right across country," he tempted himself. "No matter 'f we planned suthin' different. But then we couldn't see aunt Phebe." "You're real fond of her, ain't you?" asked Lydia absently.
'The man who is absorbed in money-getting is generally a quiet citizen. 'P'raps that's so. But I think a man sh'u'd hev a soul suthin' 'bove dollars. Them folks will take any sort o' sarce from the Yankees, ef they only buy thar truck. 'What do you suffer from the Yankees? 'Suffer from the Yankees? Don't they steal our niggers, and hain't they 'lected an ab'lishener for President?
"'It's an infernal machine, an' it's blowed a hole in me back, the Britisher yelled; an' we who was lookin' on c'd certainly hear suthin' drippin' from th' bunk he'd just got out of. "'Owch! I'm blowed t' bits. I'm bein' murdered.
Yet you all know that's Bob Rushbrook's style he ain't here, because he's full of some other plan or improvements and it's like him to start suthin' of this kind, give it its aim and purpose, and then stand aside to let somebody else run it for him.
"I wanna get enough for me partner, too," explained Billy. "Well, yew've chopped enough fer two meals, son," replied the farmer, and turning toward the kitchen door, he called: "Here, Maw, fix this boy up with suthin' t'eat enough fer a couple of meals fer two on 'em."
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