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Tim was drifting slowly, but surely, toward a hole in the back fence. "Yous can stay, if ye wanter, but you bet I don't!" He wagged his head ominously. "Why, what'll he do?" The black-haired twin balanced herself miraculously on the edge of the water-barrel and stared. "He'll ast ye" Tim's voice was sepulchral "he'll ast ye if ye're saved." "If ye're what?" cried the twins, in alarm.
"Well," said Jerry, "this friend of mine come to me this mornin' and says that Teeny-bits got accused of stealin' them things from the boys and that somehow or other all those gold trinkets and contraptions got found under his closet floor, and I wanter tell you, Doctor, that this Teeny-bits didn't do it and that them two bad birds, Campbell and Bassett, was at the bottom of all this deviltry, and there ain't been two sich underhanded, reckless, good-for-nothin' fellers in this school sence I took position here twenty year ago."
"'No, eve'ybody 's skeered er a wolf, en I doan want nobody ter be skeered er me. "'Shill I turn you ter a mawkin'-bird? "'No, a hawk mought ketch me. I wanter be turnt inter sump'n w'at'll stay in one place. "'I kin turn you ter a tree, sez Tenie. 'You won't hab no mouf ner years, but I kin turn you back oncet in a w'ile, so you kin git sump'n ter eat, en hear w'at 's gwine on.
I got some whuppin's wid strops but I wanter tell you why I am cripple today: "I had to tote tater vines on my haid, me and Fred' rick and de han's would be a callin fur em all over de field but you know honey, de two uv us could' git to all uvum at once, so Joe Sanders would hurry us up by beatin' us with strops and sticks and run us all over de tater ridge; he cripple us both up and den we couldn' git to all uv em.
We'll be movin'. Maybe another shower by'm'by, an' I sha'n't wanter be out in it." "We'll go just as fast as you want to," said Tom, hobbling along to the stables. "I won't keep you back, Mr. Blodgett." "You're lame, I see," said the man, not unkindly. "You kin straddle one of the hosses if you like."
It seems it's the whole style for ladies to go under a operation, an' as I ain't eggsackly got the time, Francie, she's keepin' up the tone for us. If you wanter folla the fashions these days, you got to gather your skirts about you, tight as they are, an' run. But what's a little inconvenience, compared with knowin' you're cuttin' a dash!
"I kalkilated you had reasons for going off, leaving no address behind you," he drawled. "What reasons?" asked Blandford, with a sudden relapse of his former harshness. "Wa'al, Squire Blandford, sens you wanter know I reckon your business wasn't payin', and there was a matter of two hundred and fifty dollars ye took with ye, that your creditors would hev liked to hev back."
"Blamed if I didn't think they was goin' to dance right thar," said the old man. "Jasper, what makes you wanter talk thatter way?" "Didn't see how they could keep from it, Margaret. Couldn't see no way to hold 'em back. Jest as ready to dance as the b'ar and the monkey that the feller come along the road with last year, mebbe year befo' last.
Dad seed a lot o' tracks at sun-up." Patsey: "I am; know where I kin get a six-shooter?" We've runn'd away for real pirates." Patsey: "Not for good!" "Can't go back again. Never! Never! Never! The the eye is cast!" Sho'o! Wanter know." Patsey: "Lemme go with yer!" Hickory: "Wot'll yer giv?" Patsey: "Pistol and er bananer." Patsey was off like a shot; his bare little red feet trembling under him.
"But what have you to do with one?" For a brief instant Sambo was almost inclined to believe that Reade did not fully know his secret. Finally it dawned on the brain of the big black man that he was being hoaxed. "Ef yo' doan wanter tell, yo' doan hab to, ob co'se," proposed Sambo. "It ain't mah way to be too persistency wid de w'ite quality gemmen.
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