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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I don't know about that. It don't take much to live here. I've got about all I want, I reckon. If I had more books to read I'd be pretty near content. There was a time, as I said, when it was different; but now I don't reckon I care. But what particular thing d'ye expect me to excel in, Uncle Sebastian?" "Excel's a tol'able big word, Hiram. I can't tell ye any more.
"You may bet your hat on one thing," says the bold yeoman, "a man may know sunthin', an' be a good minister an' a tol'able deacon, but he's spiled for farmin'." Two words are beginning to be coupled in the newspapers and to float about in the air, whose juxtaposition is the cause of many a demure chuckle among the rural population, "Agricultural College."
Williams," Gingerford saw his man approaching, and spoke loud enough for him to hear and understand, "are you accustomed to taking care of horses? I may find it necessary to employ some one before long." "Wal, yes, Sir; I'm tol'able handy about a stable," replied the negro. "Hollo, there!" called the man, somewhat sullenly, "drive that cow back here!
At the bottom I laid some dry grass and dead branches o' sage plant, and then settin' it afire, I piled the buffler-chips on top. The thing burnt tol'able well, but the smoke o' the buffler-dung would a-choked a skunk. "As soon as it had got fairly under way, I hunkered, an' sot down over the hole, in sich a position as to catch all the heat under my blanket, an' then I was comf'table enough.
The light faded, the depths of the store swam in blue obscurity, but the fragrance of the spring dusk had deepened. "When are you going to get the dog, Gord?" Tol'able asked. "What dog?" another interposed curiously. "Why, ain't you heard about Gord's dog," the chorus demanded. "Where have you been up with the Dutch on the South Fork? Gord's got a dog coming he give two hundred dollars for.
And, by gum, it's old hell-a-mile jes' a-hittin' his heels. Where you been at, you old skeezicks?" "How are you, Johnnie? And what are you doin' here?" The Runt was the kind of person who tells how he is when any one asks him. He had no imagination, so he stuck to the middle of the road for fear he might get lost. "I'm jes' tol'able, Clay.
Bill opened the pup's mouth an' poured in a tol'able stiff swig, an' by cracky, the pup opened his eyes, an' when he saw Bill bendin' down over him, he tried to wag his little tail. Well, Bill took that pup up in his arms an' hugged him an' if the' 's any one in this crowd that feels like laughin', it'll be healthier for 'im to step outside.
Why, what is you talkin' 'bout? Two hund'd dollahs. Sakes alive, it's 'mos' enough to buy a tol'able good secondhand nigger wid. En you ain't lyin', honey? You wouldn't lie to you' old Mammy?" "It's God's own truth, jes as I tell you two hund'd dollahs I wisht I may never stir outen my tracks if it ain't so. En, oh, my lan', ole Marse was jes a-hoppin'! He was b'ilin' mad, I tell you!
"It's just a comeback of an old ache. There was a power of heavy work to that fence." "You'll have to get more to help you," she continued. "That Galt'll let you kill yourself and not turn a hand. He can afford a dozen. I don't mind housing and cooking for them. David's only tol'able for lifting, too, while he's growing." "Why," David protested, "it ain't just nothing what I do.
Why, some folks is so dog-gone no account they got to git killed afore folks ever knowed they was livin'. Then they's some folks so high-chinned they can't see nothin' but the stars when they'd do tol'able well if they would follow a good hoss or a dog around and learn how to live human. But this ain't gettin' nowhere, and the sun's keepin' right along doin' business."
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