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I ain' stole one on 'em sence las' mont'," protested Zeke, as he turned a somersault into the road, "en dat warn' stealin' 'case hit warn' wu'th it," he added, rising to his feet and staring wistfully after the wagon as it vanished in a sunny cloud of dust.
He threw the vegetable dipper back into the bucket and declared that a man might as well try to drink out of a sifter. "Any news over yo' way, Laz?" "Don't believe thar's anythin' wu'th dividin'." "Nobody shot or cut?" "Let me see. Reckon you hearn about Oscar Pryor." "No, not sence he borrid five dollars of me. What about him?"
The ingratitude of women!" He looked at Miss Sally Ruth, and Miss Sally Ruth looked at him. And then suddenly, without a moment's warning, Miss Sally Ruth rose, and took Major Appleby Cartwright, who on a time had charged Yankee guns and hadn't been scared wu'th a damn, by the ear. She tugged, and the major rose, as one pulled upward by his bootstraps. "Ouch! Turn loose! I take it back! The devil!
"Now, Marse John, you's jest pesterin'! De truff is, sah," she turned to Brent, "dat 'long back yonder when Miss Ann's 'bout de size of li'l Bip, a man come down heah an' says ef I takes a policy out on Zack, when de ole nigger's daid, he say, I'll be wu'th somethin'. I turned it over an' over in mah haid, an' reckoned dat, ef Zack had to go, dar warn't no sin in ole Timmie gittin' all de comfo't outen it she could.
Fer Aun' Nancy's ole missis 'lowed he wuz a lackly little nigger en wu'th raisin'. "But Aun' Nancy had l'arn' ter lack little Mose, en she did n' wanter hab 'im tuk up ter de big house. En so w'en he did n' git no better, she gethered a mess er green peas, and tuk de peas en de baby, en went ter see ole Aun' Peggy, de cunjuh 'oman down by de Wim'l'ton Road.
"I's afeared, massa," remarked Moses, as they entered the cavern, "dat your sun-lights won't be wu'th much now." "You are right, lad. Go on before us and light the lamps if they are not broken." It was found, as they had expected, that, the only light which penetrated the cavern was that which entered by the cave's mouth, which of course was very feeble.
"I's afeared, massa," remarked Moses, as they entered the cavern, "dat your sun-lights won't be wu'th much now." "You are right, lad. Go on before us and light the lamps if they are not broken." It was found, as they had expected, that the only light which penetrated the cavern was that which entered by the cave's mouth, which of course was very feeble.
I got shoes, a'ready these here'n; but this ole gingham's the onlies' dress I got, an' hit's a sorry lookin' thing! Mr. Bowser sez ef I don't hanker arter shoes I don't hev ter hev 'em; he sez his store'll leave me take their wu'th outen sumthin' else. I reckon hit'll be all right ter the trustee!" "What trustee do you mean?" Jane asked.
Clearing his throat, he said trying to do it casually: "By the way, Tom, where is Tusk Potter?" "I don't know, Cunnel; I ain't seen 'im for a 'coon's age." "Oh, nothing at all, nothing at all," the old gentleman hastily added, as though Tom had asked why he wanted to know. "Well, how about our proposition?" Brent inquired. "It's wu'th three hund'ed a acre," he grumbled.
Anythin' goin' on round here?" "Nothin' wu'th dividin' 'cept Mose Blake fell into the river yistidy an' was drownded." "What, you don't tell me so?" the old man exclaimed. "Yes, couldn't swim a lick atter he struck the water an thar wan't no use in tryin' befo' he struck." "Powerful sorry to hear it," said Jasper. "Good feller worst habit of his was always tryin' to talk when he couldn't." "Yep.
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