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Updated: June 2, 2025
"Uncle Jed," she said in an awed tone, and planting her sharp elbows on her knees in order to prop her serious face, "The Ship is on The Rock." All the morning Jed had been trying to keep his back to the fact. "Yo' sure is one triflin' child," he muttered. "All the same, The Ship is there, Uncle Jed, and that means that something is going to happen.
I know right well what he'd been if it wasn't for you to show him what the best kind of a man's like. He'd a sure never knowed it from me. I don't mean as he'd a ever been a bad man like Wash Gibbs, or a no account triflin' one, like them Thompsons, but he couldn't never a been what he is now, through and through, if he hadn't a known you.
"That's a fac'. Ye air too triflin' ter be let ter live, Watt," cried one of their comrades. "I hearn them jugs clash tergether in the coffin-box when 'Gene checked the team up suddint, I tell you. An' them men sure 'peared ter me powerful suspectin'." "I hearn the clash of them jimmyjohns," chimed in the driver. "I really thunk my hour war come.
I allow the' ain't no dyed-in-the-wool hawss-trader like you goin' to stand up and say anything ag'inst Marthy Gordon while I'm a-listenin'. I'm recollectin' right now the time when she sot up day and night for more'n a week with my Malviny and me a-smashin' the whisky jug acrost the wagon tire to he'p God to forgit how no-'count and triflin' I'd been."
Now jest lay still a little. You're all right; everythin's all right." "Where is he?" "Who?" "Lassiter!" "You needn't worry none about him." "Where is he? Tell me instantly." "Wal, he's in the other room patchin' up a few triflin' bullet holes." "Ah!... Bishop' Dyer?" "When I seen him last a matter of half an hour ago, he was on his knees. He was some busy, but he wasn't prayin'!"
Some were of the gentry of the surrounding country, some the humbler white folk, some the negroes who had managed to acquire small tracts of land which they farmed successfully or otherwise. Among them, too, was the typical shiftless, "triflin' no-'count" darkey who "jist sits 'round a-waitin'," though it would be hard for him to tell what he was waiting for.
"'Na-ow listen, Tom, if you want the little hoss, cut out this triflin' an' bid for him, says Pappy. 'What do I hear? "'Five thousand! some guy hollers. "'That's just a nice little start . . . what do I hear? says Pappy, 'n' I goes into a trance. "I don't come to till I hears Pappy sing out: "'So-o-ld to you for sixteen thousand dollahs, Mr. Humphrey, an' you never bought a cheaper one!
"'Do, Dinah," she said, with her sweet mouth close to Dinah's ear, 'do stop bein' so triflin', and stir yo'self to be some help in the house. "'No, says Dinah, 'I like better to lay in the buttercups and look at pictur's, says she. "'Then, says Love, 'show Mose the pictur's, too, and make him happy. "'No, says Dinah, 'he's too little, an' he bothers me an' tears my book.
What you been at, you triflin' hound?" Shanghai smiled a sorrowful smile and shook his head. "Well, you see, kunnel" Shanghai always gave his employer a high military rank when in fear of rebuke "you see, kunnel, it took 'em longer'n usual to break me this mawnin'. I start' off right good, but I sutny bowed a tendon an' pulled up lame. Once I toss six passes at them gamblehs " "Never mind that!
But howsumever Ardelia went there, and my companion and me arrove at the abode where we wuz to abide, with no eppisode only the triflin' one of the driver bein' dretful mistook as to the price he asked to take us there. I thought, and Josiah thought, that 50 cents wuz the outlay of expendatur he required to carry us where we would be; it wuz but a short distance. But no!
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