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Updated: May 21, 2025
"Didn't you fire a gun at this lady?" "No," said Pomp boldly. "Wish I may be killed ef I did!" "I know 'twas you you you imp!" exclaimed Mrs. Payson, in violent indignation. "I seed you do it. You're the wust boy that ever lived, and you'll be hung jest as sure as I stan' here!" "How did it happen, Pomp?" asked Mr. Morton quietly.
I'm down at the heel o' my service An' when I am laid on the shelf, My very wust friend from beginning to end By the blood of a mouse was myself! Chorus. Ho! don't you 'eed what a girl says, An' don't you go for the beer: But I was an ass when I was at grass, An' that is why I'm 'ere, "Ay, listen to our little man now, singin' an' shoutin' as tho' trouble had niver touched him.
Dan grinned, for although there was not supposed to be any communication between the slaves on the different estates, it was notorious that at night they were in the habit of slipping out of their huts and visiting each other. "I know some ob dem, Massa Vincent. What you want ob dem? Berry bad master, Massa Jackson. Wust master hereabouts."
"There be between two and three hundred of 'em," she said, "as far as I could see the wust lot out o' Stokebridge, and a lot o' roughs from t' other villages. Quick, Jim, do you and Ann go round quick to the houses o' all the old hands who ha' kept away from the feast or who went home drunk early, they may ha' slept 't off by this, and get 'un together.
Oh no, sir; the charge is by the day." Adna's knees seemed to turn to sand and run down into his shoes. He supported himself on his elbows. "Twelve dollars a day for those two rooms on the top of the moon?" "Yes, sir; that's the rate, sir." Adna was going rapidly. He chattered, "Ain't there no police in this town at tall?" "Yes, sir." "Well, I've heard they're the wust robbers of all.
Uncle Ephraim asked, and with his arm thrown protectingly around her, Katy told him what had happened, and then asking what she should do. "Do?" the old man repeated. "Go home with me to your own folks until he comes from the wars. He is your husband, and I shall say nothing agin' him, but if it was to do over I would forbid the banns. That chap has misused you the wust way.
It's a reminder, and keeps down my pride, for when I get to feelin' pretty big, after hearin' myself pointed out as Peterkin the millionaire, I go out to that old boat in the back yard, and says I, ''Liza Ann, says I, 'you and me has took many a trip up and down the canal, with about the wust crew, and the wust hosses, and the wust boys that was ever created, and though you've got a new coat of paint onto you, and can set still all day and do nothing while I can wear the finest broadcloth and set still, too, it won't do for us to forget the pit from which we was dug, and I don't forget it neither, no more than I forgit favors shown when I was not fust cut.
Marriage seems to change the very natures in 'em through and through. You can't tell what they won't turn into nohow. "I seen the nicest girls go wrong," said Uncle Pentstemon, and added with unusual thoughtfulness, "Not that I mean you got one of that sort." He sent another crumb on to its long home with a sucking, encouraging noise. "The wust sort's the grizzler," Uncle Pentstemon resumed.
Suddenly a wild hoot of derision rent the air; the echoes answered, and all the ravine was filled with the jeering clamor. "The wust luck in the worl'!" plained poor Rufe, as the ill-omened cry rose again and again. "'Tain't goin' ter s'prise me none now, ef I gits my neck bruk along o' this resky foolishness in this cur'ous place whar owELS watch from the lookout ez dead men hev lef'."
Durn me! I'm still a wonderin' what Injuns they war; I'm a'most sartint thar the Tenawa Kimanch a band o' the Buffler-eaters an' the wust lot on all the parairia. Many's the fight we rangers used to hev wi' 'em, and many's the one o' 'em this child hev rubbed out.
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