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Dolly did not expect it of her at least, so she was not surprised, on entering the kitchen in the morning, to be accosted by her grimy young handmaiden in the usual form of announcement: "Which, if yer please, miss, my tornsuls is swole most awful." "Are they?" said Dolly. "Well, I am very sorry, Belinda.
"Ah! g'long with you, Tom Lillywhite! You'd a been dead long ago if you had money! Swole up and bust with good eatin', y'old epicoor! You'd be havin' a pig killed fresh every week if you had money!" "Say, b'lieve I would cut some dash if I had money! I'd build me a house of lumber clear through, and I'd paint it all over, paint it blue!
"Boys, be quiet!" I commanded. "He said his eye was swole worse 'an mine oncet," cried Daniel. His good eye was blazing, his shoulders were squared back, and his fists were clenched. There was no sign of a snuffle about him now. Heaven, but he looked fine! All this time I had wronged Daniel. I had only known him as he crawled to me broken and bruised after the conflict.
It thess lodged there, an' his little foot it commenced to swell, an' it swole an' swole tell his little toes stuck out so thet the little pig thet went to market looked like ez ef it wasn't on speakin' terms with the little pig thet stayed home, an' wife an' me we watched it, an' I reckon she prayed over it consider'ble, an' I read a extry psalm at night befo' I went to bed, all on account o' that little foot.
So, sir, wife an' me we was took into the church, then an' there. We wouldn't 'a' yielded to him, thoo an' thoo, that-a-way ag'in ef his little foot hadn't 'a' been so swole, an' he maybe takin' his death o' cold settin' out in the po'in'-down rain; but things bein' as they was, we went thoo it with all due respects.
"Blest if I can see what the girl sees in him," said Mahooley. "There are better men for her to pick from." "He's spoiled our fun, damn him!" said another. "The place won't be the same again." "Who is this fellow Sam?" asked one of the newcomers. "A damn ornery little cook who's got his head swole," muttered Joe. "He kept his place till he got a team to drive," said Mattison.
But I had a accident Al and fell over a bunk and lit on the old bean and the result is Al that I have got a black eye and a bad nose and my jaw is swole a little and my ears feels kind of dull like so I guess the ladys wouldn't call me Handsome Jack if they seen me but it will be all O. K. in a few days and I will be the same old Jack. But I will tell you how it come off.
Says I: "Parson," says I, speakin' thess ez ca'm ez I am this minute "Parson," says I, "his little foot is mighty swole, an' so'e, an' that splinter thess s'pose he was to take the lockjaw an' die don't you reckon you might do it where he sets from where you stand?"
"Does beer make you swell or swole or swellow when you swallow, Cooker?" he inquired; "because, if so, you had better be " but he was not allowed to conclude his deduction, for cook, bridling, bristling, and incensed, bore down upon the children and swept them from her kitchen.
An' night befo' las' it was lookin' mighty angry an' swole, an' he had limped an' "ouched!" consider'ble all day, an' he was mighty fretful bed-time. So, after he went to sleep, wife she come out on the po'ch where I was settin', and she says to me, says she, her face all drawed up an' workin', says she: "Honey," says she, "I reckon we better sen' for him an' have it did." Thess so, she said it.
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