Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 26, 2025
He didn't even think thar'd be enny need o' keepin' a special guard ter-night, but I reckon I won't take no such chance as that, an' I'll have a couple o' deputies prowlin' 'round fer luck. When Carson does wake up, she's hell." He left them tobacco and pipes, and went away evidently convinced that he had performed his full duty.
On came Loving and Jim, unwarned and unsuspecting, their animals jaded from the long night's ride. They reached the bend. And just as Jim, pointing to a low round hill a quarter of a mile to the west of them, remarked, "Thar'd be a blame good place to stan' off a bunch o' Injuns," they were startled by the sound of thundering hoofs off on their right to the east.
Ther two of us hev always 'lowed thet ef we could see them wedded afore we lays down an' dies, we'd come mighty nigh seein' ther old breach healed an' ther old hates buried. Them two clans would git tergither then an' thar'd jest be one peaceful fam'ly 'stid of two crowds of hateful enemies." Dorothy had hardly moved since she had spoken last.
"Thar goes a woman in a thousand," observed old Adam, edging nearer the bin. "In a million let's make it a million," urged Solomon Hatch. "If they were all like that the world would be different, Mr. Doolittle," remarked Jim Halloween. "Ah, yes, it would be different," agreed old Adam, and he sighed again. "Thar'd be strict walkin' among us, I reckon," said his son.
Thar's them gol danged copper-colored guests uv ther government they're kickin' up three pints uv the'r rumpus, more or less consider'bly less of more than more o' less. Take a passel uv them barbarities an' shet 'em up inter a prison for three or thirteen yeers, an' ye'd see w'at an impression et'd make, now. Thar'd be siveral less massycrees a week, an' ye wouldn't see a rufyan onc't a month.
Hale, hairy, vehement, not without a quality of Rabelaisian humour, he appeared the last of all men with whom one would associate the burden of a troubled conscience. "Sorry to have kept you on my word I am," he began heartily; "but to tell the truth, I thought thar'd be somebody in the house with sense enough to show you to a bedroom. Like to run up now for a wash before supper?"
He's too sly; an' he's up to somethin', an' I don't fancy havin' to keep up a eternal watch agin him. If I was well red of him I could breathe freer; but at the same time I don't altogether relish the idee of puttin' myself into the clutches of that thar frigate. It's easy enough for me to keep out of her way; but if I was once to get under her guns, thar'd be an end of the Parson.
When they went in to supper later on, there was a great deal of laughing and talking going on down the long table. Mr. Sparkes was finishing a story as they entered, and he was finishing it in a loud voice. "They're pretty well known," he said; "an' the Colonel's the worst o' the lot. The nigger told me thar'd been a reg'lar flare-up at the Springs.
'Cause ef yuh'd gi' me a free hand thar'd be a dozen er so less bohunks the fus' night fer supper. I jes' natcherl hate hidin' my feelin's." He repeated the sigh more hopelessly. "Yuh'd never git the work did; thar ain't bohunks enough in the world." Torrance clutched his hand; here in an unexpected quarter was a man to his liking.
"I don't reckon I've b'iled inside an' sweated outside for mo' than twenty years without knowin' it. Lord! Lord! If it took as hard work to be a Christian as it does to be a wife, thar'd be mighty few but men in the next world an' they'd git thar jest by followin' like sheep arter Adam "
Word Of The Day
Others Looking