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Updated: June 14, 2025
What did that pottering vagabond mean by arousing us in the middle of the night? But I was hungry. Everybody half arose on elbows and blinked about. Then we got up, each after his fashion, except one scamp who resumed snoring. "Whar's that brekfust you're yellin' about?" "Hit's for you-uns to help git! I knowed I couldn't roust ye no other way. Here, you, go down to the spring and fetch water.
An' dad gin his cornsent ter Nate ter let me work a month an' better fur him, ter pay out'n debt fur the shoat." "What work be you-uns goin' ter do?" Birt had a strong impression, amounting to a conviction, that there was something behind all this, which he was slowly approaching. "Why," said Tim, in surprise, "hain't ye hearn bout'n Nate's new land what he hev jes' got 'entered' ez he calls it?
"Waal, sir, I'll tell you whut they'd do. They'd fust-place ask you some questions about yourself, and whut you-uns was doin' in that thar neck o' the woods. Then they'd git you to do some triflin' work about the still feed the furnace, or stir the mash jest so 's 't they could prove that you took a hand in it your own self." "What good would that do?"
"My uncle Dan owns this land. He knows you-uns are here, and he's comin' down pretty soon, too. He says you-uns will be sorry you shot that calf afore he gits done with you." Randy stared at the lad in amazement, and then a sudden light broke on his mind.
W'y! Yeas! Yeas! De de de dey done gone! "'Gone where? asked Jennie. "'Dey done gone on de road, missus. I jes' tell you-uns dey's Sesh in heah. 'Spec dey got dem, dey eat dem for dey dinner. Dey got dem, sho. "'Well, what about the "Sesh," as you call them? "'O, I tole you all 'bout dem. 'Pore de Laud, I mus' rest fust. I is powerful tired, missis I is.
Looks like to me we'll have a rainin', windin' spell." "No: I'll haffter go down." "Well, come agin, and fix to stay a week." "You-uns come down with me." "Won't go now, I guess, Tom." "Giddep! I'll be back by in the mornin'." "Farwell!" Rather laconic.
"I never knowed afore," said the man in the mist, with mock apology in his tone and in the fantastic gyrations of his nodding hat, "ez it air you-uns ez owns this mounting." He looked derisively at Ike from head to foot. "Ye air the biggest man in Tennessee, ain't ye?" "Naw!" said Ike shortly, feeling painfully awkward, as an overgrown boy is apt to do.
"Ain’t you-uns goin’ to teach the Yellett outfit ther spellin’, writin’, and about George Washington, an’ how the Yankees kem along arter he was in his grave an’ fit us and broke up the kentry so we had ter leave our home in Tennessee an’ kem to this yere outdacious place, where nobody knows the diffunce between aig-bread an’ corn-dodger? I war a Miss Tumlin from Tennessee."
"Ben," said the girl in a low voice, "do you-uns b'lieve ef thar war passin' continual on a sure enough county road that thar cur'ous white light would kem on the old witch's face in the night-time? Ain't that a sort'n spell fur the dark an' the lonesomeness ter tarrify a few quaking dwellers round about? Surely many folks comin' an' goin' wouldn't see sech.
The men composing the company served their full time, and were highly praised for their gallantry. The above case deserves mention, as it is an exception to the general conduct of the Jews. Changes of Commanders. Preparations for the Aggressive. Marching from Corinth. Talking with the People. "You-uns and We-uns." Conservatism of a "Regular." Loyalty and Disloyalty. Condition of the Rebel Army.
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