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Updated: June 26, 2025
Fer a hundred thousand I could git hit proved that the President of these United States killed that feller an' human natur' is about the same, I reckon, ever'whar. You don't git no grandson o' mine when thar's a bunch o' greenbacks like that tied to the rope that's a-pinin' to hang him."
He grew more voluble at the approach of danger. Never had his teeth and claws been longer or sharper. "I'm afraid of nothin' except that they won't come," he said. "If they don't, my health will give way. I'll be a-droopin' an' a-pinin' an' I'll have to go off an' fight the Comanches an' Lipans to get back my strength." But he was assured that his health would not suffer.
And he had returned it like a man, holding her tight and almost breathless, and he going to be hung the next minute! Salomy Jane had been kissed at other times, by force, chance, or stratagem. In a certain ingenuous forfeit game of the locality known as "I'm a-pinin'," many had "pined" for a "sweet kiss" from Salomy Jane, which she had yielded in a sense of honor and fair play.
Now, I used to watch that theer tree an' here's the cur'us thing, Peter day by day I see that tree a-droopin' an' droopin', a-witherin' an' a-pinin' for them other two brothers you might say till one day I come by, an' theer it were, Peter, a-standin' up so big an' tall as ever but dead! Ay, Peter, dead it were, an' never put forth another leaf, an' never will, Peter never.
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