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Updated: May 27, 2025
"Well, heavy though the clouds be I can see that east is that-a-way, and not far from us rises a high hill. Come, then, lean on me; pass thy arm around my shoulders this fashion and I will help thee on. Then I will leave thee at the foot of the hill and myself climb it, and if need be some tree upon its summit. From that I shall surely catch sight of the sea, and knowing that we know all we need."
"No, Aunt Cornely, hit ain't strange, not a bit." "Ain't strange? Huldy child, what do you mean?" "W'y, don't you know, Aunt Cornely, ef he do Pappy that-a-way, when Pappy do so much fer him, then he don't have to be thankful.
"Anyway, I'm a-goin' over that-a-way an' see. So long!" Patches rode up to Joe just as the Tailholt Mountain man regained his horse on the other side of the ridge. "Hello, Joe!" said the Cross-Triangle rider, easily. The wretched outcast was so shaken and confused that he could scarcely find the stirrup with his foot, and his face was pale and twitching with excitement.
Don't holler it out that-a-way!" whispered Pap Himes from the floor, where he crouched, still clutching the precious bits of ore. "We was a-goin' to give 'em to you, Uncle Pros. We was just foolin'," Buckheath attempted to reassure him. The old man bent forward and shot down a long arm to recover his own.
"Don't you know yet, Tharon," he said quietly, "when I'm a-jokin' with you? I'd stand by Last's an' you to my last breath. Don't you know that?" For a long moment Tharon regarded him gravely. "Yes, I do," she said, "but somehow I don't like to have you talk that-a-way, Billy. Don't do it no more." "All right," promised the rider, "if you say so, Boss. Only don't talk about firin' me, then.
But she had turned her face and steps in the opposite direction, the mirth of the situation extinguished for the present. "Quit talkin' that-a-way 'bout sech turr'ble, turr'ble things!" she cried petulantly, making a motion as if to strike him, futile at the distance, and with her frowning face averted. "Sech ez yer new coat?
"And look at the poor crathur there, what she's come to," said Ody, instancing the tragical figure of the widow Morrough. "Ah, the saints may pity her," said Theresa. "But the likes of such bad luck happins few people married or single, thank God." "It's a quare unnathural young villin her son must be," said Mrs. Brian, "to skyte off and lave her that-a-way. Sorra the bit he can be good for."
The girl reddened, but met Ruth's eyes determinedly. "I've got a book in here, that dad got with some other traps from ol' man Cullen's girls, back in Red Rock they thought we was poorly, an' they helped us that-a-way. It's 'Millie's Lovers, an' it tells how a man deceived a girl, an' run away an' left her the sneakin' coyote!" "Girls shouldn't read such books, Hagar." "Yes, they ought to.
Well, they ain't no use trying to talk about the rest of that afternoon. I couldn't rightly describe it if I wanted to. And I reckon it's none of anybody's business. Well, it makes you feel kind of funny. You want to go out and pick on somebody about four sizes bigger'n you are and knock the socks off'n him. It stands to reason others has felt that-a-way, but you don't believe it.
"Not exactly that at noon; though abeam, as it might be, mornings and evenings." "Still, the coldest of our weather is yet to come, or I have no exper'ence in such things. Why does not the heat come back with the sun or what seems to be the sun coming back? though, as you tell me, Captain Gar'ner, it's only the 'arth sheering this-a-way and that-a-way in her course."
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