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Updated: June 28, 2025
"In spite iv their heavy losses th' Boers kept up a fierce fire. They had no lyddite, but with their other divvlish modhern explosives they wrought thremenjous damage. F'r some hours shells burst with turr'ble precision in th' British camp. Wan man who was good at figures counted as manny as forty-two thousan' eight hundhred an' sivin burstin' within a radyus iv wan fut.
"I heerd she never drove again." "Any childern?" "Buckboards full of 'em." "Men too?" "I have shed conside'ble men in my time." "By kickin'?" "Any way that come along. Fallin' back over the dash is as handy as most." "They must be turr'ble afraid o' you daowntaown?" "They've sent me here to get rid o' me. I guess they spend their time talkin' over my campaigns.""I wanter know!" "Yes, sir.
"I know; it looks that way at first sight," said the sailor, nodding his head; "but those as knows the least have a habit of thinkin' they know all there is to know, while them as knows the most admits what a turr'ble big world this is. It's the knowing ones that realize one lifetime ain't long enough to git more'n a few dips o' the oars of knowledge." Trot didn't answer.
"Well, he ain' so ve'y fur off, honey! Go an' seek 'im you needs 'im, Gawd knows you does! but mebbe he won' find sich a turr'ble lot of wu'k to do, arter all! Sometimes people's gyardens is cu'ious dat a-way!" He left after this, and walked slowly beyond the house to the circle of cedars.
"Not in enny ways so special," Sage would reply in cavalier discouragement, his disaffected gaze resting upon the champion scholar, who stood elated, confident, needing no commendation to assure him of his pre-eminence; "but he air disobejient, an' turr'ble, turr'ble bad."
But she had turned her face and steps in the opposite direction, the mirth of the situation extinguished for the present. "Quit talkin' that-a-way 'bout sech turr'ble, turr'ble things!" she cried petulantly, making a motion as if to strike him, futile at the distance, and with her frowning face averted. "Sech ez yer new coat?
"Any any place to cramp the coupe?" Tedda panted. "It weighs turr'ble this weather. I'd 'a' come sooner, but they didn't know what they wanted ner haow. Fell out twice, both of 'em. I don't understand sech foolishness." "You look consider'ble het up. 'Guess you'd better cramp her under them pines, an' cool off a piece."
The close mouth, with its ugly set, would not have been recognized by any but lifelong friends. "And Nat's about's good as any boy," went on ma. "Boys is turr'ble hard to fetch up so they don't disgrace ye and send ye to the grave with gray head bowed in sorter, as the poet says. Nat ain't bad. He speaks sharp to his mother once in a while, but la what boy don't?
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