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"If that ain't the nipper all over! Well, if they was to nab you, you just say what I tells you to. And then, first chance you get, you slip away from 'em and go to the station. An' if they comes arter you, you say you're a-goin' to your father at Dover. And first chance you get you slip off, and you come to that 'ouse where you and me slep' at Gravesend.
Sophronia, who was a Methodist by descent and early confirmation, was of the opinion that the child should have a Bible name. The Captain respected his wife's wishes, but put in an ardent plea for his own name, Hiram. "There's been a Hiram Baker in our family ever since Noah h'isted the main-r'yal on the ark," he declared. "I'd kinder like to keep the procession a-goin'."
I saw her face for a minute as plain as I see yours. She was looking straight at me and I saw all of a sudden what a fool I was." "You're getting better," said Uncle William. "Do you think so? I was afraid " he hesitated. "You thought mebbe you was a-goin' to die?" "Well I have heard that people see clearly It came over me in a flash so " "Lord, no!" Uncle William chuckled.
"Yes, I might," said she, with what she considered rather withering smartness; "but I ain't a-goin' to." "Ye'll be tired afore ye git home," he persisted, encouraged by finding that she would talk back at him. "James-Ed A'ki'son," she declared, with emphasis, "if ye think I'm a-goin' to be beholden to you fer a lift home, ye're mistaken, that's all."
I heard you only last night when you-all was so dad burned tickled at gittin' hit done. You-all ain't got no right ter sling hit inter the river, an', anyway, I ain't a-goin' ter let you." "Which sounds very sensible to me," came a clear voice from a few feet distant.
"I did," replied Crimmins, swallowing the whiskey at a gulp. "An' she'll come in wid us, will she?" "She will, will she? She'll come in nothin'. I jollied her about her flowers, and thought I had her dead ter rights, when she up an' asked me what we was a-goin' to do for her if she jined, an' afore I could tell her she opens the front door and gives me the dead cold."
I've seen more good come of sleep than most things in my nursin' experience," said Miss Roxy, and she shut the door gently, and the two sisters sat down to their noontide meal. "How long the child does sleep!" said Miss Ruey as the old clock struck four. "It was too much for her, this walk down here," said Aunt Roxy. "She's been doin' too much for a long time. I'm a-goin' to put an end to that.
His young face was set, his eyes alight. Iron-sinewed he ran easily, without panting. "I air a-goin'," he announced, "I air a-goin' to put this here one in the place of that thar one." "'T isn't going to be easy work," said Allan soberly. "What's the use of ducking, Steve Dagg? If a bullet's going to hit you it's going to hit you, and if it isn't going to hit you it isn't "
"No, I'm coming back," said the smiling clergyman, and the laugh came. "That's right! But" as if the thought was a sudden one "I'll be dead by thin, willn't I? Of coorse I will." "Yes?" rejoined the clergyman. "How's that?" The Irishman turned to the Italian. "Mr. Ristofalo, we're a-goin to the pinitintiary, aint we?" Ristofalo nodded. "Of coorse we air! Ah! Mr. Preechur, that's the place!"
His speciality was the stars, nothing less; an' he knew 'em by name an' could tell you how far off they are an' what they weigh an' how many moons they had an' oh, he knew 'em the same as I know the home herd, an' he didn't only know what they had done he knew what they was a-goin' to do, an' when he called the turn on 'em, why they up an' done it.
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