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His dark, homely face turned to the larger man with a singular expression of awe. He whispered: "D'you hear? She's in the next room whippin' Joan for runnin' away, and never a yap out of the kid!" He held up a lean finger for caution and then Haines heard the sound of the willow switch. It stopped.
"I see I wouldn't be doin' right to oppose you in this here, Tillie. Well, I'm glad, fur all, that I ain't whippin' you. It goes ag'in' me to hit you since you was sick that time. You're gettin' full big, too, to be punished that there way, fur all I always sayed still I'd never leave a child of mine get ahead of me, no matter how big they was, so long as they lived off of me.
"Mars' Cary done give you one horse whippin', an' ef you hang aroun' here you'll get anudder one!" Furious at the recollection of his shame of a few years back when he had been overseer on this same plantation, the Sergeant rushed up the steps and knocked the ax aside with his gun barrel. "Yes, he did whip me, burn him, and now I'll do the same for you."
The question was asked with a final, emphatic stomp, an up-throw of the disheveled head, a spreading outward of both gartered arms. "That's the way t' talk!" vowed the Father. "Shure, a coward needs his own punishment handed t' him! Take yer whippin', Tom Barber, and take it like a man! For it's a whippin' that's justly comin' t' ye this mornin', as all the neighborhood'll agree!" "Where?"
So I never lets on that I have any better, but keep dark about this superfine particular article of mine, for I'd as lives he'd think so as not. He was a real primiTIVE good man was minister. I got some, said he, that was bottled that very year, that glorious action was fought atween the Constitution and the Guerriere. Perhaps the whole world could'nt shew such a brilliant whippin as that was.
But to resoom: We all went out for a drive through the streets; Josiah and I and Arvilly and little Tommy in a little two-wheeled cart settin' facin' each other drawed by two buffalo cows. Robert and Dorothy and Miss Meechim occupied another jest ahead on us. The driver sot on the tongue of the wagon, and would pull their tails instead of whippin' 'em when he wanted 'em to go faster.
To hear him tell it, he's always whippin' twenty men at a time. But it ain't in natur' for one man to whip twenty." "I never said once in my life that I whipped twenty men at a time," protested Jim Hart. "We'll let it pass," said Paul, "and Sol may be right about the Greeks piling it up for themselves; but so they wrote it, and so we have to take it.
He was the forester, alert and indomitable a fit second to Henry Ware. Then Henry and Jim Hart alone were left near the river's brink. Henry did not look back. "Are the wagons coming fast?" he asked. "Yes," said Jim Hart, "but I'm beckonin' to 'em to come still faster. They'll be in the water in three minutes. Listen! The drivers are whippin' up the horses!"
That nigger belongs to my neighbor. If you've a mind to come in quietly, I'll see you let off without any whippin." "I have no mind to come in, either quietly or otherwise," replied Dan. "Then the wust's your own;" and Longworth fired. The ball whistled within a few feet of Dan's head; but, unterrified by the peril, he raised his gun and fired.
And after I had said it, the idee struck me as bein' sort o' pitiful, to go to whippin' a ghost. But she didn't seem to notice my remark, for she seemed to be a gazin' upward in a sort of a muse; and she says, "Oh! would you not like to talk with your departed kindred?" "Wall, yes," says I firmly, after a minute's thought. "I would like to."
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