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They've ez little marcy ez a pack o' wolves in a sheep-pen." "Well," continued Fortner, meditatively, "Ole Rockassel's gittin' a glut to-night. She'd orten't ter need no more now fur a hundred yeahs." "I don't understand you," said Harry. "Why, they say thet the Rockassel hez ter hev a man every Spring an' Fall.
That was all my cousin Duncan said. To the dying man, nothing made much difference. It was as if he had only paused to gather his failing breath, and when he spoke his tone was the same, detached, dispassionate, with a ghost of humor running through it. "How many times?" He counted the collars with a finger tip. "One two, tlee, six, seven time. Seven yeahs. Too bad.
'Sides, Boomerang is gettin' old, an' when a mule gits along in yeahs him temper ain't none ob de best." "Boomerang's temper never was very good, anyhow," said Tom. "Many's the time he's balked on you, Rad." "I know it, Massa Tom, but dat jest shows what strong character he done hab. Nobody kin manage dat air mule but me, an' if I were to leave him, dere suah would be trouble.
Can't somebody catch somebody's eye? The seven-year drought of Egypt's in my throat!" The Colonel began to laugh, while Zack, highly elated, said: "Dat wuz a plague, Marse Brent!" "Well, don't I know it?" he looked pitifully up at him. "Naw, sah," Zack laughed again. "I mean de 'Gyptians didn' have no drought; dey had de plague dem seben yeahs! I 'member dat story!"
"Legal! 'Fo' Gawd, nigger, whauh you been to school all dese yeahs, never to heah uv a nigger-stopper befo'!" "But but how can a stroke of the pen, a mere gesture, estop a whole class of American citizens forever?" cried Peter, with a rising voice. "Turn it around. Suppose they had put in a line that no white man should own that land. It it's empty! I tell you, it's mere words!"
I certainly am tired of hosses I can't touch with my hand. Fo' fo'ty yeahs I have handled these locoed hosses they ah all locoed in my judgment and I am plum tired of such. I shall send to Missouri aw Tennessee and get me a hoss I can trust.
She was just coming out of the store again. "I feel so sorry for her sistahs, too," she ventured. "I nevah knew till the othah day that Miss Marietta has been an invalid so long. Miss Allison told me she had been in bed for fifteen yeahs! It's awful! Why, that is as long as my whole lifetime has been." "She was to have been married," began Mrs.
All day long you hear things 'placed' as having happened since the waw; or du'in' the waw; or befo' the waw; or right aftah the waw; or 'bout two yeahs or five yeahs or ten yeahs befo' the waw or aftah the waw. It shows how intimately every individual was visited, in his own person, by that tremendous episode.
Berry's eyes were bloodshot as he replied, "Den, damn you! damn you! ef dat 's all dese yeahs counted fu', I wish I had a-stoled it." Oakley made a step forward, and his man did likewise, but the officer stepped between them. "Take that damned hound away, or, by God! I 'll do him violence!" The two men stood fiercely facing each other, then the handcuffs were snapped on the servant's wrist.
"Well," said Perkins, with attempted bravado, "I rammed a piece o' silver down on the bullat in my gun. 'Twix 'em both " "Dar now, Marse Perkins, you des been 'posed on 'bout dat silber business. Ole Unc' Sampson w'at libed on de Simcoe place nigh on er hun'erd yeahs, dey say, tole me lots 'bout a spook dat boddered um w'en he a boy.
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