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Updated: May 23, 2025
"I'll take flowers to him now and again," sez she, "and I'll go up there and talk to him about you; and Happy, Happy, we'll both be lonesome until you come back!" And so I kissed her on the lips, and rode away the second time. Well, I rode purty tol'able slow. Some way I didn't want to go back to the Lion Head Ranch.
Caught so unexpectedly, he blushed a beautiful brick red to his neck. Johnnie ducked his head and scraped the carpet with his foot in an attempt at a bow. "Glad to meet up with you-all, Miss. Hope you're feelin' tol'able." Clay slipped the coat from her shoulders and saw that the girl was wet to the skin. "Heat some water, Johnnie, and make a good stiff toddy. Miss Kitty has been out in the rain."
Thompson's men have give it up as a bad job and gone home." "Did they pass along the road?" exclaimed Rodney. "We never heard them." "I did, and seen 'em too. There was a right smart passel of 'em more'n enough to have made pris'ners of all the Union fellers in the swamp, if they hadn't been afraid to face the rifles that them same Union men know how to shoot with tol'able sure aim."
"Well," said the smith, feeling among his tools, "them plantations down thar, stranger, an't jest the place a Kentuck nigger wants to go to; they dies thar tol'able fast, don't they?" "Wal, yes, tol'able fast, ther dying is; what with the 'climating and one thing and another, they dies so as to keep the market up pretty brisk," said Haley.
Delamere, and were not a bad imitation; for in the man, as in the master, they were the harmonious reflection of a mental state. "How is Mr. Delamere, Sandy?" asked Mrs. Carteret, acknowledging Sandy's salutation with a nod and a smile. "He ain't ez peart ez he has be'n, ma'am," replied Sandy, "but he's doin' tol'able well.
They heroed me an' Ches right consid'able; but we didn't tell 'em about the goat. It might put the Chinamen wise, you see. They took up a purse of eighteen hundred dollars for us which had been offered in rewards one place an' another, an' we felt purty tol'able contented.
Bill Andrews had finally got tol'able well acquainted with me also, an' was able to savvy that while peace was my one great desire, the' was some prices that I wouldn't pay for it.
"Why, yes, Miss Scudder, I'm pretty tol'able. I keep goin', and goin'. That's my way. I's a-tellin' the Deacon, this-mornin', I didn't see how I was to come here this afternoon; but then I did want to see Miss Scudder and talk a little about that precious sermon, Sunday. How is the Doctor? blessed man!
"Ther Thorntons an' Harpers them thet dwells furthest back in ther sticks air a doin' a heap of buzzin' an' talkin'. They're right sim'lar ter bees gittin' ready ter swarm. I've done seed ter that. I reckon when this hyar stranger starts in ter rob ther honey outen thet hive he's goin' ter find a tol'able nasty lot of stingers on his hands."
The horse took his new burden unkindly, plunged and danced. "Afraid?" asked the Captain. John's eyes sparkled merrily and he shook his head. "You're a pretty brave boy, aren't you?" said the stranger. But John shook his head again. "I'll bet you are, and a tol'able good boy, too, aren't you?" "No, sir, I'm not a good boy, I'm bad. I'm a very bad boy, indeed." The horseman laughed.
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