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"Now 'bout the chickens; they are trottin' round on the grass: they didn't be dead. We haven't got any only but dead ones; but Mis' Gray has. "I like Dr. Gray ever so much! "Mis' Gray gave me the kitty to play with. I bundled it all up in my dress, 'cause I didn't want the cat to get it. "There wasn't any dead little kittens. "Now 'bout I pumped full a pail full o' water.
"Keep an eye on me, girls, for I shall certainly split somewheres or lose my head-piece off when I'm trottin' round. What would my blessed mother say if she could see me rigged out in her best things?" and with a smile and a sigh the old lady departed to look after "the boys," and see that the supper was all right.
And say, it wa'n't so long ago that Abey was wearin' sky-blue pants and a Postal shield, trottin' out with messages from District Ten. But here he is, with a checked ulster and a five-dollar hat, writin' figures on a pad. "Hello, Motzie!" says I. "How long since they lets the likes of you inside the ropes?" "Hello, Torchy!" says he. "Got any orders?" "I'm lined with 'em," says I. "What's good?"
"Let us return simply but grandly to our inalienable rights the right o' freedom on these yere verdant hills, an' no invijjus distinctions o' track an' pedigree:" "What in stables 'jer call an invijjus distinction?" said the Deacon, stiffly. "Fer one thing, bein' a bloated, pampered trotter jest because you happen to be raised that way, an' couldn't no more help trottin' than eatin'."
Sambo was taking the hint, when Miss Virginia called him back. "Where's Mr. Clarence? "Young Masr? I'll fotch him, Miss Jinny. He jes come home f'um seein' that thar trottin' hose he's gwine to race nex' week." Ned, who had tied Calhoun and was holding his mistress's bridle, sniffed. He had been Colonel Carvel's jockey in his younger days. "Shucks!" he said contemptuously.
I shudn' wonder now" and here he embraced the company with a smile, half pompous and half timid "I shudn' wonder if ye was to see me trottin' to Parlyment House in a gilded coach afore Michaelmas I be so tremenjous rich, by all accounts."
'Fore long, Joe whistled, and as I always take short cuts everywhar, I put in at the back-door, jest as Kitty come trottin' out of the pantry with a big berry-pie in her hand. I startled her, she tripped over the sill and down she come; the dish flew one way, the pie flopped into her lap, the juice spatterin' my boots and her clean gown.
Thornton, or you'll go trottin' along with the cook. I'm a little bit techy about them babies " The man flushed and rose to go. "I did not mean to offend you, Miss Doane. We are at your service. What do you want me to do?" "I want you to get me a woman cook by the way, what did you pay that cook?" "I think, if I remember rightly, he receives a hundred and fifty dollars."
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