Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 12, 2025
And there they stayed all night in a pouring rain, the kind of rains you get in them islands. "'Twa'n't a nice night. They tried huddling together to keep dry, but 'twa'n't a success because there was always a row about who should be in the middle. Then they kept passing personal remarks to one another.
We never thought he was brighter 'n common; but jest see how in that flash o' bein' mad with Lyddy Ann he'd planned out what would be most wormwood for her! He gi'n her the half o' the house she'd furnished herself with hair-cloth chairs an' a whatnot, but 'twa'n't the part that was fit to be lived in. She stayed pretty close for three or four days, an' I guess she never had nothin' to eat.
So we sot sail for what we jedged was Ebenezer's front-gate, and just as we made it, a man comes whistling round the bend in the path, and I'm blessed if 'twa'n't Peter T. Brown. He was rigged to kill, as usual, only more so. "Hello, Peter!" I says. "Here we be." If ever a feller was surprised, Brown was that feller. He looked like he'd struck a rock where there was deep water on the chart.
And there, indisputably, were the porcupines, bothering her all the time, with unheard-of impudence. Weasels, indeed! "'Twa'n't you I was after," she muttered obstinately, apostrophizing the now motionless form in the rain-barrel. "It was them dratted porkypines, as comes after my aigs. But ye're a bad lot, too, an' I'm right glad to have got ye where ye won't be up to no mischief."
"Folks laughed at me when I first bought this place an' come here to live," he explained. "They said 'twa'n't no kind of a field privilege at all; no place to raise anything, all full o' stones. I was aware 'twas good land, an' I worked some on it odd times when I didn't have nothin' else on hand till I cleared them loose stones all out. You never see a prettier piece than 'tis now; now did ye?
"Was that all?" he asked, with a sigh. "Yup. No, 'twa'n't neither, come to think of it. Rastus Young's wife, come in with her two young-ones and bought some shoes and hats for 'em." "Did she pay cash?" demanded Captain Shadrach sharply. "No; she said charge 'em up, so I done it. Say, ain't you comin' in pretty soon? It's 'most my supper time."
Ferris called Nancy to listen to what she had to say. "I kin talk ter ye now," she said, "an' first I'll ask ye ef ye remember the old house in Merrivale where ye used ter live before Mis' Dainty give ye a home?" "I guess I do," said Nancy. "Wal, 'twa'n't much of er livin' ye had, an' the woman what took keer of ye was only yer stepmother. Did ye know that?"
"I was thinkin' " interposed Cyrus, mildly; but his wife swept past him, and took the road. "I dunno's there's any use in gittin' a real dinner, jest you an' me, an' you not workin' either. Folks say there's more danger of eatin' too much'n too little. Gilman Lane, though, he kep' eatin' less an' less, an' his stomach dried all up, till 'twa'n't no bigger'n a bladder. Look here, you!
And finally I got so miserable, I wished I wa'n't never married, and I'd have wished I was dead, if 'twa'n't for bein' doubtful where I'd go to, if I was. And worst of all, one day I got so worked up I told Russell all that. I declare, he turned as white as a turnip.
Morrell's just been there, and he's afraid it's the membranous crou " The last letter stuck in Elbridge's throat; he gulped it down. "Oh, I hope not," said Northwick. "He's comin' back again he had to go off to another place but I could see 'twa'n't no use," said Elbridge with patient despair; he had got himself in hand again, and spoke clearly.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking