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Henry Shackleford hired me en brung me to Christian County. Not long fore I was married ter Albert Wooldridge we sho had a big wedding. Zack Major a nigger preacher of de Baptist faith did de ceremony right here in Hopkinsville. "Yes, sho I has ben a mid-wife or granny. All dese high falutin things dey is doin now in child birth is tommy-rot dey oughter hev jes grannies now.
They do fight us out straight and fair, anyway, and don't cant much about knowing that things aren't right, with Elementary Property Bills and 'Wealth and Want' and that sort of wordy tommy-rot. I like to know where to find a man and that trick of Griffith at the maritime strike in Brisbane showed where to find him right enough." "Was it Griffith?" asked Nellie. "Of course it was Griffith.
"We've had enough of this gory, maudlin, sentimental tommy-rot," he said. "Here, Barcoo, stump up or I'll belt it out of your hide! I'll I'll take yer to pieces!" But Douglas didn't leave the town. He sent his wife and children to Sydney until the heat wave was past, built a new room on to the cottage, and started a book and newspaper shop, and a poultry farm in the back paddock, and flourished.
Very well, then; me and Chips has been talkin' things over together and we've decided that, havin' been lucky enough to get hold of Mr Blackburn, we ain't goin' to lose 'im because of any socialistic tommy-rot; so if there's anybody here as objects to Mr Blackburn's conditions, let 'im say so, and we'll ask the new skipper to put in somewheres, and we'll shove the dissatisfied ones ashore.
But of a sudden his aspect changed; he started up, and spoke with a snarling emphasis. 'I've had just about enough. Look here, clear out, all of you! There's the door go! Mr. Daffy moved towards him. 'Is that how you speak to your father, Charles? he exclaimed indignantly. 'Yes, it is. Take your hook with the others; I'm sick of your tommy-rot! 'Then listen to me before I go, cried Mr.
"I I don't see how anyone can help liking Freddie," she said, without actually knowing why. He stared hard at the Danube below. After a long silence he said, "It's all tommy-rot about it being blue, isn't it?" She was also looking at the dark brown, swollen river that has been immortalised in song. "It's never blue. It's always a yellow-ochre, it seems to me."
A murmur of protest arose at this speech, for all the remittance men had gathered around to listen to the argument. "That's all tommy-rot," observed Handsome Tim, in a sulky tone. "We're not spoiling for a row; it's the dance we're after." "Then give up the revolvers," said Beth, coming to her cousin's assistance.
I'm going back to town." Sentences and scraps of sentences came flying at him from all over. "Hold him down" "Chain him up" "Going tommy-rot can't go!" "You'll be game for the roundup at eleven you've got to be." "Our darling boy he's got to be," and more language. "All right for eleven," Johnny agreed. "I'll be at head-quarters then but I'm going now," and he went.
Every unprotected female in this county ought to pack her trunk and trudge right up to the Remington place and say, 'Here we are, noble man! We have read your burning words in which you offer to protect us. Save us from the vote! Let your home be our sanctuary. That's what you mean if you meant anything but tommy-rot. Here and now we throw ourselves upon your boasted chivalry.
Amberson emitted a laugh of disgust. "It's wonderful what tommy-rot a woman in a state of spite can think of! I suppose you don't doubt that Amelia Amberson created this specimen of tommy-rot herself?" "I know she did." "Then what's the matter?" "She said " George faltered again. "She said she implied people were were talking about it." "Of all the damn nonsense!" his uncle exclaimed.
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