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An' Bill says, 'No, I don't notice no romance tharin; what impresses me most is that she's shore a zealous fight also, mighty busy. "Injuns would be romantic, only they're so plumb ignorant they never once saveys. Thar's no Injun word for 'romantic'; them benighted savages never tumblin' to sech a thing as romance bein' possible.
Miss Ophelia lifted out the sifting papers of sweet herbs. "I wish Missis wouldn't touch dem ar. I likes to keep my things where I knows whar to go to 'em," said Dinah, rather decidedly. "But you don't want these holes in the papers." "Them 's handy for siftin' on 't out," said Dinah. "But you see it spills all over the drawer." "Laws, yes! if Missis will go a tumblin' things all up so, it will.
I'm only a marine engineer, Gib, an' while I been goin' to sea long enough to pick up something about handlin' a vessel, still I'll get dizzy if I go aloft an' I'm sure to get sick. You'll have to do all the high an' lofty tumblin' an' how in blue blazes us two're goin' to sail a square-rigger into port is a mystery to me." "Leave the worryin' to your Uncle Gib, Bart.
'Huh! that's a Bible story. This ain't Sunday. Par never reads the Bible 'cept Sunday. I want 'em 'bout lions an' tigers, an' men tumblin' down mountains, and boys gettin' eaten by bears. 'What did you do when I was away, Lemuel? His lower lip protruded ominously. 'Ain't had nuthin'. Martha Spriggs don't hev any.
We had a cap'n as had sailed the sea for forty years an' a mate who had been across the ocean sixteen times. Well, sir, sure as I'm here we struck some thick weather with the Johnny Jackson tumblin' an' tossin' good, and the cap'n an' the mate took seasick an' was sick near the hull trip. Then the second mate got down, an' the bosun, an' then the cook, an " "The cabin boy " suggested Tom.
"'Thar's a ugly outcast of a squatter, mattock in hand, comes tumblin' down the hillside from some'ers out back of the shanty where he's been grubbin': ""What be you-all eediots chasin' my dog for?" demands this onkempt party. Then he menaces us with the implement. "'We makes no retort but stands passive.
Then draw a splendid oak openin' so as to give a good view, paint a squirrel on the tip top of the highest branch, of the loftiest tree, place me off at a hundred yards, drawin' a bead on him fine, then show the smoke, and young squire squirrel comin' tumblin' down head over heels lumpus', to see whether the ground was as hard as dead squirrels said it was.
That's four pieces you've ate, and it's little slape your poor mother'll git with you a tossin' and tumblin' forenenst her all night long because of your big appetite." "Oh, Miss Katy, talk Irish some more!" cried the delighted children. "Is it Irish you'd be afther having me talk, when it's me own langwidge, and sorrow a bit of another do I know?" demanded Katy.
I had a nap for two or three hours, but waked at six, an ever sence I've been a worretin an a frettin about youns. Sence that thar accident, I can't bar to have you out of my sight, for I fear all the time that you ar gettin into mischief. An now I've been skeart for two mortal hours, a fancyin you all tumblin down from the cliffs, or a strugglin in the waters."
"Won't somebody from the station see the light and come over?" "Not in this fog. You can't see a hundred foot. No, I've got to go right off. Good land! I never thought! Is the horse gone?" "No; the horse is here. Abner took one of the store horses to go to Harniss with. But he did take the buggy, and there's no other carriage but the old carryall, and that's almost tumblin' to pieces."
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