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When he took off this last, as he did now, it revealed a head bald as a billiard ball. "How're they coming?" he inquired genially of the besieged man, as he rounded the rock barricade. Larrabie's steel eyes relaxed to a hint of a friendly smile. He knew this type of man like a brother. "Fine and dandy here. Hope you're well yourself, seh." "Tol'able. Buck's up on his ear, o' course.
Healy's gave way for the time, not because he was mastered, but because he did not wish to alienate the rough, but fair-minded, men sitting around. "You're mighty good at explaining me to the boys, Jim. I expect that is what I mean," he answered sullenly. "Sure," put in Purdy, with amiable intent. "But when it comes to Mr. Keller I can explain myself tol'able well.
"But Schuyler thinks a force of British may land somewhere along the big river and come down through the bush, building a road as they advance," said Jack. "A thousand men could make a tol'able waggin road to Fort Edward in a month," Solomon declared. "That's mebbe the reason the Injuns are out in the bush eatin' Yankees. They're tryin' fer to skeer us an' keep us erway.
Slocum hadn't swelled clear out of shape with his new fortune, an' when I made myself known to him he had give me a purty tol'able decent sort of a job, where there was more bossin' an' responsibility than brute labor; an' I felt kindly toward him. Winter lasted full four months out there.
"I shall sell him, first chance I find," said Haley, lighting another cigar. "S'pose you'd be selling him tol'able cheap," said the stranger, mounting the pile of boxes, and sitting down comfortably. "Don't know 'bout that," said Haley; "he's a pretty smart young 'un, straight, fat, strong; flesh as hard as a brick!" "Very true, but then there's the bother and expense of raisin'."
I promised Locals an' Hammy a generous rake-off, an' we fixed to have a tol'able fair time as soon as I cashed in. Next mornin' I found a letter addressed to Mr. John Hawkins, Esq. Artie wasn't around, but Locals an' Hammy was, so I opened the letter an' read it. This here is the letter. It's one o' my greatest treasures.
These are not mere blunders of individual illiterates, but usages common throughout the mountains, and hence real dialect. Pleonasms are abundant. "Durin' the while." "In this day and time." "I thought it would surely, undoubtedly turn cold." "A small, little bitty hole." "Jane's a tol'able big, large, fleshy woman." "I ginerally, usually take a dram mornin's."
I d' know's I ort to say so, but this here district No. 34 is a poot' tol'able hard school to teach. Ya-uss. A poot-ty tol'able hard school to teach. Now, that's jist the plumb facts in the matter. We've had four try it this winter a'ready. One of 'em stuck it out four weeks I jimminy! he had grit, that feller had. The balance of 'em didn't take so long to make up their minds.
She placed the neckerchief behind her, with a quick hope that her relatives had not seen it, nor had paid any attention to her exclamation. But she saw Uncle Jepson grin broadly, and her face grew redder with his words: "I cal'late the man who lost that blue bandanna wasn't a tol'able piece away when that knot was tied."
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