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"I dunno," said the advanced thinker, "ez I be s'prised enny ef Purdee, ez be huntin' up hyar so constant, hev got sorter teched in the head, ter take up sech a cur'ous notion 'bout'n them rocks." He glanced along the slope at the spot, visible now, where Moses flung the stone tables and they broke in twain.
Harvey had picked them from the hook, and was admiring them. "Ouch!" he cried, for his fingers throbbed as though he had grasped many nettles. "Now ye know what strawberry-bottom means. Nothin' 'cep' fish should be teched with the naked fingers, Dad says. Slat 'em off agin the gunnel, an' bait up, Harve. Lookin' won't help any. It's all in the wages."
Turner and the children the paper I have left for them. Now I'm contented to go, and ef they do put a railroad track through my wood lot, it can't make me feel bad. The things of earth that I held so close through long years, will not seem to me any more as they have, too holy to be teched."
I ain't teched it, dat I ain't." "But it isn't there. You must have put it someplace else." "No, Miss Dolly, I nebber laid a hand on dat cake. I know jes' how choice you was of it, an' I lef it jes' whar yo' put it." "But it isn't there, and who would disturb it?" "Tain't dar! Land o' goodness! Den whar is it?" Maria's black eyes rolled in dismay. "Somebody's done stole it!" "Stole it? Nonsense!
Middleton, rather gruffly, for he did not much like the appearance of Raymond, "likely enough. But, young man, let old Josh give you a little advice. I’ve seen more than double your years, I reckon, and I never seen a man come from the free states that wasn’t a little teched with abolitionism. It’s nateral like and onnateral to change their mind so mighty soon.
Her eyes were full of tears, and her eloquent face expressed vexation and distress. The stranger saw the look and the tears, and, leaving the boys, he approached her without the slightest awkwardness, and said: "Has anybody teched ye, mum?" "Oh, no, sir," Miss Butterworth answered. "Has anybody spoke ha'sh to ye?"
The three had worked for many hours with scarcely a word spoken, with scarcely a recognition of one another. Of a sudden Eli Cronk raised his head and said, "Lem, Scraggy was to Mammy's t'other day." "I didn't know ye'd been to Ithacy?" Lem made the statement a question. "Yep, I went to see Mammy, and she says as how Scraggy's pappy were dead, and as how the gal's teched in here."
"Honest to goodness, Miss Wise, I've not teched a drop!" cried Droop, leaping to his feet and leaning forward quickly. "You may smell my breath ef " A violent push sent him back to his chair. "Thet'll do, Mr. Droop. I'll undertake to believe ye fer once, but I'll thank ye to speak plain English." "I'll do my best," he sighed, plaintively. "I don't blame ye fer not takin' to it quick.
Although order is heaven's first law, it occasionally happens that it is better to break the law than to be broken by it. And so, when the young housekeeper's nicely arranged plans for each day in the week are suddenly turned topsy-turvy, let her take heart of grace, remembering that there are whole days that "ain't teched yet," and begin again.
We watched him git on he hoss an' ride up de road out o' sight, an' we wuz out in de field a-slidin' an' a-slidin', when up comes ole marster. We started to run; but he hed done see us, an' he called us to come back; an' sich a whuppin' ez he did gi' us! "Fust he took Marse Chan, an' den he teched me up.
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