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Thirty a month, and at that 'tain't fit for no dawg to live in. I could knock up a shack like this with tar paper, I could. "And what do we get? I gotter haul the water in a bucket, and cook on an oil stove, and they hists the price of the ile, 'cause he comes by in a wagon with it. The landlords is squeezing the life out of us, I tell ye." She paused in her tirade to yell at her charges.
"'Tain't none of your doin' good to folks, nor any of that kind of thing; it's on'y to animals, cause I'm sorry for 'em." "O Jim, what grammar!" sighed Allie.
Jack. Yes; come along. 'Tain't a comfable corner this yere: the wind cuts round uncommon sharp. Them pies ain't good leastways not to look at. Bill. They ain't disgestible. But look ye here, Jack and Jim hearkee, my kids. Enter MATTIE and SUSAN. Sus. Now, Mattie, we're close to the house, an' I don't want to be seen with you, for she's mad at me. Mat. You must have made her mad, then, Sue. Sus.
"He's going to drown it!" came the chorus. "Going to drown it? Nonsense!" said the officer. "I am," said Ginx. "But, bless my heart, that's murder!" "No, 'tain't," said Ginx. "I've twelve already at home. Starvashon's shure to kill this 'un. Best save it the trouble." The officer declares this is quite contrary to law and he recites the law, but that doesn't affect Ginx.
"Just imagine Phronsie's eyes when she sees that production. Candace, you've surpassed yourself." "You go 'long!" exclaimed Candace, in delight, and bestowing a gentle pat of deprecation on his shoulder, "'tain't like what I could do; but la! well, you send de bressed chile along, and mabbe she'll like it."
So intent was he upon the task of taking care of this particular shipment that he had forgotten the Superintendent, and started and almost stared at him when he shouted the observation that the messenger was a little late with his tree. "'Tain't mine," he said sadly, shaking his head. "B'longs to the fellow 't swiped your coat."
"Billy all time " began Jimmy. "Billy all time nothin," said Sarah Jane, "'tain't no use fo' to try to lay dis-here co'set business onto Billy; both o' yuh is ekally in it. An' me a-aimin' fo' to go to three fun'els dis week an' a baptizin' on Sunday. S'pose y' all'd bruck one o' de splints, how'd I look a-presidin' at a fun'el 'thout nare co'set on, an' me shape' like what I is?"
And she took the broom out of Polly's hand, who stood quite still in mortification. "There," she said, drawing it mildly over the few bits she could scrape together, and gently coaxing them into a little heap; "that's the way; and then they don't go all over the room. "I'm sorry," began poor Polly. "'Tain't any matter," said Mrs.
She was real well-appearin'. I never felt to respect Marthy so before." "We was kind o' hard on her sometimes, but folks couldn't help it. I've seen her pass Eb right by in the road an' never look at him when he first come home," said John Stover. "If she hadn't felt bad, she wouldn't have cared one way or t'other," insisted Henry Merrill. "'Tain't for us to judge.
"Where's the rest?" "There ain't any rest. That's every damned pennyweight." "Maybe we ought to weigh it, and see if he's lying?" "'Fore God it's all! Let me go!" He had kept looking through the crack of the door. "Reckon it's about right," said Keith. "'Tain't right! There's more there'n I took. My stuff's there too. For Christ's sake, let me go!" "Look here, Jack, is the little bag yours?"
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