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Ef a mockin'-bird kin sing God's praises a-singin' trible, and so on through all the parts you see I larnt the squar notes oncet at a singin' why, I don't see to save me why the bass of the owl a'n't jest as good praisin' ef 'ta'n't quite sech fine singin'. Do you, now? An' I kinder had a feller-feelin' fer the owl. I says to him, Well, ole feller, you and me is jist alike in one thing.
The frightened little one, whose tongue had not yet learned to utter many words, made no attempt to answer, but stood timidly looking from one to another of the surrounding group. "She ha'n't got no name, 'ta'n't likely," suggested Nance. "We must christen her, then," said Miss Lee. "Carroll called her Tidy," remarked the old gentleman, entering the room at that moment.
Folks says you know more 'bout the robbery at the Dutchman's than you orter. But I don't believe them. Fer them as says it is liars and thieves theirselves. 'Ta'n't fer none of that. And I shan't tell you what it is fer. So now, if you won't travel, why, take off your coat and git ready fer a thrashing." The master took off his coat and showed his slender arms.
"Bless my heart, Capua!" cried Mr. Raleigh, removing the stem from his lips; "how came you here?" "Lors, Massa, it's only me," said Capua. "So I see," replied his master, restoring the pipe to its former position. "How did you come?" "'Bout swimmed, I 'spect," answered Capua, grounding a chuckle on a reef of ivory. "'Ta'n't no fish-story, dat!" "Well, what brings you?"
He was always a kindly fellow, and he knew a little how the land lay between me and Dan. "When I was down in the Georges," said Jim Jerdan "You? When was you down there?" asked father. "Well, once I was. There's worse places." "Can't tell me nothing about the Georges," said father. "'Ta'n't the rivers of Damascus exactly, but 'ta'n't the Marlstrom neither." "Ever ben there, Cap'n?" "A few.
"Well, 'ta'n't always handy," replied the other; "one doesn't like to break into a five-pound note for nothing; and I like to let it run till it comes even change." "But, brother," said Mr. Zebedee, turning over the great Bible that lay on the mahogany stand in the corner, "we must go to the law and to the testimony," and, turning over the leaves, he read from Deuteronomy, xxiv.:
'Ta'n't like's ef I'd a-loved the red-skin Catholic. I hadn' never seed 'er. It wasn't the gal, it was the money I hankered arter. So Miss Charlton needn' be jealous, nor juberous, like's ef I was agoin' to wish I'd a married the Injun. I'd feel satisfied with Kate Charlton ef you think she'd be with David Sawney!" "That's a delicate subject quite a delicate subject for me to speak about, Mr.
'In the first place, says I, 'if I did want to keep my money to buy furniture with, in case I should get a husband, I expect I've a right to, for 'ta'n't likely, says I, 'I shall be lucky enough to have my carpets giv' to me. But that wa'n't the reason I didn't put my name down for a dollar on that subscription.
Now, 'ta'n't what my Doctor gives me, he never giv' me the snip of a finger-nail, but it's what he does for mine; and when de poor critturs lands dar, tumbled out like bales on de wharves, ha'n't dey seen his great cocked hat, like a lighthouse, and his big eyes lookin' sort o' pitiful at 'em, as ef he felt o' one blood wid 'em?
"'Tother' is dangerously ill, has a fit, Hullfish. He is the author of that note, very probably was out of his mind when he wrote it." "So? Pity! Very sick? Mayn't I see him?" But, as he stepped forward, Thorne stood in the way and effectually intercepted his view. The constable smiled cunningly, as he drew back, and said, "You're sure 'ta'n't nothing else, then?
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