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"What!" he exclaimed. Horace had long known that I was "a kind of literary feller," but his face was now a study in astonishment. "What?" Horace scratched his head, as he is accustomed to do when puzzled, with one finger just under the rim of his hat. "Well, I vum!" said he.
Mis' Kittridge, she broke me o' that, and now I don't never go further than 'I vum' or 'I swow, or somethin' o' that sort; but you see I'm old; Moses is young; but then he's got eddication and friends, and he'll come all right. Now you jest see ef he don't!"
"Keep it yourself! You need it!" she growled savagely, pushing the extended hand away from her so fiercely that the candy was scattered all about the floor, and without a backward glance, she flounced out of the store. "Well, I vum!" exclaimed the astonished clerk. "Next time I'll let her bawl."
She ascended the stairs, two steps at a time, and opened the door of her son's room. If Abner had been in bed his mother would have pulled him out, for her arm was vigorous, but the bed was empty. "Well, I vum!" she ejaculated, in surprise. "Ef that boy isn't up already. That's a new wrinkle. And the little boy gone, too. What can it mean?" It occurred to Mrs.
An' hi-mighty!" exploded Cap'n Abe, with a great laugh, "I have give 'em a taste of him, I vum!" "Oh, you have, Uncle Abram! You have!" agreed Louise, and burst, into laughter herself. "It is wonderful how you did it! It is marvelous! How could you?" "Nothin' easier, when you come to think on't," replied Cap'n Abe. "I'd talked so much 'bout Cap'n Am'zon that he was a fixed idea in people's minds.
True, he spat not on the carpet loudly, and he refrained from saying I vum! and Great Snakes! quaint conceits that, I am told, every English actor who respected his art formally employed when wishful to type a stage American for an English audience; but he bragged loudly and emphatically of his money and of how he got it and of what he would do with it.
Puffs, and embroidery, and lace, and, I vum, if the ruffles ain't tucked too," she continued, in a despairing voice, hoping Ethelyn knew "how to iron such filagree herself, for the mercy knew she didn't."
The next moment the astonished men were gazing at the pair of guilty-looking little mermaids, who wore curds for seaweeds. Helen's floating golden hair, all stringy with whey, was a funnier sight even than Zaidee's short plastered locks. The two frightened, dirty, streaming little faces, were raised appealingly. "Wal, I vum!
"Where did you buy that, Lin?" asked Neal, climbing over to a perch beside the driver, and pointing to a heavy Colt's revolver which the young settler was buckling round his waist. "Didn't buy it. I traded a calf for it at Greenville more'n a year ago," was the reply. "Fust-rate gun it is, too, I vum! I've stood at our cabin-door, and killed many a buck with it.
"If you can't help scolding Flora, you must keep your hands off her." "You don't care anything about the cakes! I should like to know! Well, we'll see about it! I'll know who rules here, I vum! I'll call Mr. Fishley! We'll see if you don't care!" rattled Mrs. Fishley, as she bolted from the kitchen through the entry into the store.
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