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A terrible earnestness lined the negro's face with a holiness of purpose and made it beautiful. "Oh, Lord," he prayed, "save dis yere ol' turkey gobbler. I knows, Lord, he's a powahful wuthless bird, but he's all I'se got. I'se jus' an' ol' slave, Massa, what's been free since de War, an' Job, sah, he understan's me. Lord, I doan wanta live no mo' if I has to kill ol' Job.
Peter; while maister is for haeing you it a bank or twa in your pouch, and add Ellenmount to Lockerby, and " "And if I could, Janet?" "Tut, tut, lad! If it werna for 'if' you might put auld Scotland in a bottle." "But what was the upshot, Janet?" "I canna tell. God alone understan's quarreling folk."
"Nobody understands that dog, Bonaparte, but me," said Carpenter after a while "he's to dogs what his namesake was to man. He's the champ'un fighter of the Tennessee Valley, an' the only cross-eyed purp in the worl', as I have often said. Like all gen'uses of course, he's a leetle peculiar but him and me we understan's each other."
I trust him wid eberyt'ing!" replied this pattern wife. "An' Youssef what ob him?" "He's more'n t'ree quarters blind. Kin see not'ing, an' understan's less." "Dinah, you's a good woman," remarked her appreciative brother, as he rose to depart. "Now, remember, dis am de most important job you an' I hab had to do since we was took by de pirits out ob de same ship.
"But, s'pose furst," went on Archie B. argumentatively, "that you wanted to give some money fur a little church that you wanted to j'ine up on the mountain side, a little po'-fo'k church, that depended on charity " "I understan's, I understan's, Archie B., that wus the Lord's doin's, ten to one on the monkey, Archie ten to one!"
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