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"What is it, honey," demanded the man, anxiously, as he felt her tremor against his arm, "air ye cold?" Dorothy opened her eyes and laughed, but with a tremulousness in her mirth. "I reckon I hain't plum rekivered from ther fright hit give me when ye went over thar ter Virginny," she answered, "sometimes I feels plum timorous."
The Honorable William Jones was impatient of interruption. "Comin' to our own side of the sea, gentlemen, what do we find? New England foremost in the slave trade! New York, ownin' onct more slaves than Virginny ever did! Georgia was fo'ced to take on slave labor, although she had tried to do without it. Every race, every nation, sirs, has accepted the theory of slave labor. What says Mr.
Pretty soon all the little forest and meadow people whom Peter Rabbit had invited were gathered around the foot of Unc' Billy Possum's hollow tree, and each had brought something good to eat. My, such a feast as was spread out there! Now they were waiting for Unc' Billy Possum, who had gone to meet his family, coming up from "Ol' Virginny."
"He's the greatest man to keep his mouth shut I ever saw. He kept at the governor of Virginny till he gave him twelve hundred pounds in Continentals and power to raise troops. Then Clark fetched a circle for Fort Pitt, raised some troops thar and in Virginny and some about Red Stone, and come down the Ohio here with 'em in a lot of flatboats. Now that ye've got here the Kentucky boys is all in.
The trepidation, however, soon passed away; and when Tazewell proceeded to establish point after point, and was in the full headway of his argument a large audience, consisting of the ablest lawyers and statesmen of the Union, watching every syllable that fell from his lips, and following him through the mazes of his mighty plea Randolph could restrain himself no longer, but said in a tone audible to those about him: "I told you so I told you so; Old Virginny never tires."
"Do you want some money?" he asked more kindly, bringing forth his roll as he spoke. "Well here, Virginny, there's one hundred dollars it's nothing to your Uncle Charley. No, I got plenty more; and I'm going up the Ube-Hebes just as soon as I find my burros. They must be over to Cottonwood there's lots of sand over there and Jinny, she's hell for rolling.
"Now, boys, you've just got to kill the ox for this barbecue! Now, mind you, I ain't going to have any backing out! We ain't West P'inters, but, thank the Lord, we're men! When it's all over we'll have a torchlight procession and write to the girls! Now, boys, you be good to me, and I'll be good to you. Lord, children, I want to be proud of you! And I ain't Regular, but I know Old Virginny.
"Harder to get both than a 'pintment in these crowded times on a opposition recommendation when all ole Virginny is yaw to be tuk care of," said Hon. Fitzchew Smy, of the Old Dominion.
"Which the eel is the gamest fish," says this Davis. "When I'm visitin' in Virginny, I used to go fishin'. I don't fish with a reel, an' one of them limber poles, an' let a fish go swarmin' up an' down a stream, a-breedin' false hopes in his bosom an' lettin' him think he's loose. Not me; I wouldn't so deloode wouldn't play it that low on a fish. I goes anglin' in a formal, se'f-respectin' way.
I have no other object than to find out if he is the person I used to know in Canada." "How long ago did you know him in Canady?" "I saw him last in the summer of 1854 about five years ago." "Well, at that rate I've known him pretty near as long as you hev. It's more'n four years since I first got acquainted with him down, in Ole Virginny, where I was raised.
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