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'Twa'n't long 'fore she taken a notion to come to my house, an' one mornin' when I was a-washin' up dishes, I heern some un holler at the gate, an' thar sot Mingo peerched up on the Wornum carry-all, an' of all livin' flesh, who should be in thar but ole Emily Wornum! "Hit's a sin to say it," continued Mrs.
When they was boys together at school they was always rowin' and fightin', and when they grew up to be thirty and courted the same girl ten years younger than either of 'em, she was twa'n't much better. Neither of 'em got her, as a matter of fact; she married a tin peddler named Bassett over to Hyannis.
Old 'Lige said "twa'n't right," and he'd strike afore he'd stand it; and, in the end, we all struck. The fourth day after the strike commenced I met 'Lige, and he asked me where I was going to hunt work. I told him I was going back when we won. He laughed, and said there wa'n't much danger of any of us going back; we were beat; mail trains all running, etc.
I know you did it just for my sake. I won't say I ain't glad; I am, in one way. But 'twa'n't necessary, and 'twas too much, too hard for you altogether." "Don't say that," she begged. "Too much! I never can do enough. Compared to what you have done for me it it.... Oh, please let me do what little I can.
Next thing I knew that literary tenor grabbed my arm 'twa'n't no canary-bird grip, neither. "'Who was that? he whispers, eager. "I told him. 'That's the name they give, says I, 'but we have doubts about its bein' the real one. You see, there's some mystery about them Robinsons, and "'I'll take that waiter's place, he says, quick. 'Shall I go right in and begin now?
'I see one when I was a little girl. 'You shall have it, says the judge; an' 'twa'n't a week afore this set come, all marked complete. I never see anybody quite so tickled as mother was; an' father he kinder laughed. He couldn't help it, to think how she got ahead of him." "Well," said the visitor again, "it's as handsome as ever I see." She got slowly on her feet. "There!
Aunt Laviny's will has turned Trumet into an asylum, and the patients are all runnin' loose." "But WHAT foolishness was that about a cousin in California?" "'Twa'n't foolishness, I tell you. You ask any one of a dozen folks you meet outside the post-office now, and they'll all tell you you had one.
"Dat Jim nigger 'lowed he was in a toler'ble fight, but 'twa'n't nothin' 'side ob dis," chattered boy Charles. They toiled, piling their rampart ring higher, while they constantly peered right, left, before, behind, expecting a charge. Bob Armstrong cheered. "The reds are going! They've had enough!" That seemed true.
So for the first year Squire Potter took it on shares, and, as he principally seeded it down to rye, why, we sold the rye and got a little money, but 'twa'n't a great deal, no more than we wanted for clothes the next winter. Aunt Langdon sent us down a lot of maple-sugar from Lee, and when we wanted molasses we made it out of that.
Brer Fox, he in fer dem kinder pranks, en 'twa'n't no time 'fo' Brer Rabbit had ole Brer Fox harness up dar in his place, en den he make like he got ter make 'as'e en git de pills fer dem sick chilluns. Brer Rabbit wa'n't mo'n out er sight 'fo' yer come Mr. Man wid a han'ful er hick'ries, but w'en he see Brer Fox tied up dar, he look like he 'stonished. "'Heyo! sez Mr.
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