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Updated: June 15, 2025
I be offisaire een my own countree I don't bow ze knee to nobody, white or black." "So when dey line up, dis here Haitian come crowdin' in ahead o' de fust man in de line, an' he cut off de bes' lean meat 'fore we gits ours. "What's dis, Ah say to de man ahead o' me, 'huccome dat white man don't bus' dat damn yeller swab wide open?
I was wearin' a Prince Albert coat an' a high plug hat, Locals had on a white flannel yachtin' rig, an' Hammy was sportin' a velvet suit with yeller leggin's an' a belt around the waist. After we had fitted him out with a pipe he sez, "Gentlemen, I may possibly be able to repay you at some future time. I am Lord Arthur Cleighton, second son of the Earl o' Clarenden."
At the door I met the sociable Wheeler returning, and he button- holed me and re-commenced: "Well, thish-yer Smiley had a yeller one-eyed cow that didn't have no tail, only just a short stump like a bannanner, and " However, lacking both time and inclination, I did not wait to hear about the afflicted cow, but took my leave. This is an illustration of the symmetrical plot.
Republican eternal! Republican! Faugh, he don't know no more why he's a Republican than a yeller dog'd know! I went around to-night, when he was out, thought mebbe I could fix it up with the others. No, sir! Couldn't git nothing out of 'em except some more parrot-cackle: 'Vote same Petro. All a good Republican! It's enough to sicken a man!"
Before reaching the spot where he is still prospecting, they see him give a sudden spring forward, like a frog leaping over meadow sward, then pause again, scrutinising a track. A second examination, similar to the first, tells of another discovery. In like manner explained, by his speech close following, "An' hyar's the track o' the mare the yeller mustang as war rid by the saynorita.
"On another would be marked, 'Wealth. Very yeller those calves would be, and a long, long drove of 'em. "On another would be, 'Earthly Love. Middlin' good-lookin' calves, these, and sights of 'em. But the mantillys that covered 'em would be all wet and wore with tears.
"I was caught there last night," I answered, unwilling to say more, "Boat got snagged in the dark, and went down." "Live round yere, I reckon?" "No; just floating. Came down the Illinois. Where is this steamer bound?" "Hell alone knows," dryly. "Yeller Banks furst, enyhow; we're loaded with supplies." "Supplies! For Yellow Banks?" in surprise. "Why; what's going on there?
Aunt Jane's cheerful voice called me back from the tombs. "Here's a piece o' one o' my dresses," she said; "brown ground with a red ring in it. Abram picked it out. And here's another one, that light yeller ground with the vine runnin' through it. I never had so many caliker dresses that I didn't want one more, for in my day folks used to think a caliker dress was good enough to wear anywhere.
They had not gone far over the silvery-green meadow three shadow-lengths, perhaps when they saw something coming toward them. It was coming as fast as half-legs could carry it; and it was wagging a long, stand-up tail. Everybody guessed in an instant that it was Peter's "black dorg wiv yeller spots." "Who der thunk it?
Sez he: "I can dress gay with small expense; I can take one of your white woolen sheets and color it with diamond dye a bright red or a green or yeller at a outlay of ten cents per sheet, and one of my bandannas will make a crackin' good turban. Let me walk into the Jonesville meetin' house with that gorgeous drapery wropped round me, why I should be the lion of the day."
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