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One spring day, after the sober home-coming of Colonel Carvel from the Democratic Convention at Charleston, Ephum accosted his master as he came into the store of a morning. Ephum's face was working with excitement. "What's the matter with you, Ephum?" asked the Colonel, kindly. "You haven't been yourself lately." "No, Marsa, I ain't 'zactly."
The old man looked quietly into the muzzle of the revolver and said, with a laugh: "This ain't 'zactly my benediction time, Jack Bracken, an' I've no notion of h'istin' my arms an' axin' a blessin' over you an' that old pistol. Put it up an' tell me what you want," he said more softly. "Well, you do know me," said the man, coming forward and thrusting his pistol into its case.
Let a young fellow see his intended bride treated with cruelty, and you may be sure that, no matter what difficulties may be in the way, he will hasten at the very first opportunity to meet and carry off the sweet little fairy in spite of " "Das me an' my black darlin', zactly same zif you bin dar an' sawd us do it!" exclaimed Ebony, with beaming interest. "Just so," resumed Mark.
Then, turning to Grandpa Ford, she said: "Now we can go back in the house and you can finish what you were telling us when Russ fell out of the hammock." "I didn't zactly fall out of it," the little boy explained. "I wasn't in it. I was climbing up on one side, and I I " "Well, you fell, anyhow," said his father. "Please don't do it again. Now we'll go in, Father."
"Well, not zactly," he said, scratching his head, "dey was dicksionary words and werry fine, for she had great 'finement bout her; but dat was de meanin' ob 'em. "'Now, Sorrow, she said, 'tell me de trut, wasn't dat soup now made of water? "'Yes, Missus, it was, said I, 'I seed it wid my own eyes.
Ma was out on one of her professional engagements, and I got in bed with Pa. I had heard Pa blame Ma about her cold feet, so I got a piece of ice about as big as a raisin box, just zactly like one of Ma's feet, and laid it right against the small of Pa's back.
'T is a coorious circumstance, but generally allowed, that humans are the awnly creatures o' God wi' understandin', an' yet they comes into the world more helpless an' brainless, an' bides longer helpless an' brainless than any other beast knawn." "Shouldn't call 'em 'beastes' 'zactly, seem' they've got the Holy Ghost from the church font ever after," objected Billy.
"Fifty wouldn't hardly do, p'r'aps?" "Hardly. I like to carry a job through clean an' vitty while I'm on it." "You've got such a big spirit." "As to that, money so spent ban't lost 'tis all in the fam'ly." "Of course 'tis a gude advertisement for you. Folk'll think you'm prosperin' an' look up to you more." "Well, some might, though I doan't 'zactly mean it like that.
"Now," she continued impressively, "while I go in the kitchen an' git the supper started, I want you to ease yerse'f outen the bed on to the floor, an' lay with yer head to the north an' your han's outspread, an' yer mind on the heabenly kingdom." "Air you shore hit ain't gwine hurt me?" again he queried. "Not if you do 'zactly like I say.
I've been ridin' him and teachin' him a few things, like startin' and stoppin', for a month. He war wild when I tuk him fust, but since he and I got 'quainted, we agree zactly, and I told ther men as own him he should be home ter night, and I must take him. I wouldn't send him by the are-apparent hisself.
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