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That's all there was to it. "Afore Emeline could answer, Bennie comes back at me again. "'Perhaps you'll tell us this was the first time you have visited her, he purrs. "Well, that was a sockdolager, 'cause twa'n't the first time. I don't know how many times 'twas. I never kept no account of 'em.
'Twa'n't a question of savin' life we could have took to the boats and, nine chances out of ten, got ashore all right, for 'twa'n't very fur. But no, the skipper said he'd never lost a vessel for an owner yit and he wa'n't goin' to lose this one. And he didn't either, by Judas! No, sir!" "That was splendid!" exclaimed Elsie. "I should like to have known that captain. Who was he, Captain Davis?"
This yere prejudice agin profanity is the only thing about this yere Peg-leg that ain't pizen bad, an' that prejudice, you got to know, was just along o' his being loco on that one subjeck. 'Twa'n't as if he had any real principles or convictions about the thing. It was just a loco prejudice. Just as some gesabes has feelin's agin cats an' snakes, or agin seein' a speckled nigger.
"I then swum round ahint the karkidge, an' pushed it afore me till I got it landed high an' dry upon a sandbar. 'Twur like to fall to pieces, when I pulled it out o' the water. 'Twa'n't eatable nohow!" Here Rube took a fresh mouthful of the wolf-mutton, and remained silent until he had masticated it. The men had become interested in the story, and waited with impatience. At length he proceeded
'What danged right'd he to fetch my wife in? thundered Bettles to the soothing overtures of a friend. ''Twa'n't called for, he concluded decisively. ''Twa'n't called for, he reiterated again and again, pacing up and down and waiting for Lon McFane. And Lon McFane his face was hot and tongue rapid as he flaunted insurrection in the face of the Church.
Aunt Polly wiped her eyes on her apron. "But, Dave," she said, "did the deakin really say that word?" "Wa'al," he replied, "if 'twa'n't that it was the puttiest imitation on't that ever I heard." "David," she continued, "don't you think it putty mean to badger the deakin so't he swore, an' then laugh 'bout it? An' I s'pose you've told the story all over."
Ain't that enough?" "Enough! It's a darned sight too much. I tell you I know you didn't find it." "But I did." "Rubbish! In the first place, you and I hunted every inch behind those boards the very day the money was missin', and 'twa'n't there then. And, besides, this isn't the money I lost." "Well well, what if 'tain't? I don't care. I I know 'tain't. I I spent your money." "You SPENT it? When?
Do you believe it, they just poked fun at my story, and said, 'of course 'twa'n't true, and we couldn't believe half we read in the papers, and it would tura out like the Cardiff giant, most likely. I was going on to tell how he brought, out the curiosities, and ever so many people saw them, and of course it was true; but la! one wanted the thread, another the scissors, and another called out, 'Mrs.
As if 'twa'n't enough she should send Andy to his death o' drownding " "Well, I hope she's satisfied, what she's done for Joshua. I saw him to the post-office last evening, and the hang-dog look of him " "Yes, I saw him, too. A man can't stand being made a fool of...." So, in the blue of a wash-day morning the words went winging back and forth between the blossoming lines.
Folks do say that his favorite hymn is 'I'm Glad Salvation's Free' and they heave out consider'ble many hints that if 'twa'n't free he wouldn't have got it; but then, that's an old joke and I've heard 'em say the same thing about other people." "But do you think he's honest?" "I never heard of his doin' anything against the law.
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