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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Don't you think it is too bad, Mr. Yancy, the way those children have been neglected? There is nothing for them but to run wild." "Well, I seen some right good children fetched up that-a-ways smart, too. You see, ma'am, there's a heap a child can just naturally pick up of himself." "Oh!" and the monosyllable was uttered rather weakly. Mr.
"No," said both boys in a breath, greatly pleased at his friendliness. "Do you know where any are?" The man scratched his head, seeming to reflect. "Well, 'pears to me I hearn tell o' some, 'roun' to'des that-a-ways," making a comprehensive sweep of his arm in the direction just opposite to that which the boys were taking.
"I was expectin' fo' to hear you name me Uncle Bob, sonny; my little nevvies get almost anything they want out of me when they call me that-a-ways." "Please, Uncle Bob, make it go bang!" "You come along, then," and Mr. Yancy moved off in the direction of his mule, the child following.
"I 'low it will have to be fixed that-a-ways," agreed Yancy. After he had parted with Solomon Mahaffy the judge applied himself diligently to shaping that miracle-working document which he was preparing as an offset to whatever risk he ran in meeting Fentress.
"I think that-a-ways myself, Miss Betty, but this trial was only for my smacking Dave Blount, who was trying to steal my nevvy," explained Yancy. "I hope you smacked him well and hard!" said the girl, whose mood was warlike. "I ain't got no cause to complain, thank you," returned Mr. Yancy pleasantly.
In spite of herself, Betty was experiencing a certain revulsion of feeling where the judge and Mahaffy were concerned. They were doubtless bad enough, but they could have been worse. "No, ma'am; he done soaked the label off one of Mr. Pegloe's whisky bottles and pasted it on the wall just as high as my chin, so's I can see it good, and he's learning me that-a-ways!
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