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Updated: June 22, 2025
Where's the Secretary of the Navy? Where's the State Bank? That's a helm worth handlin', I tell you; I don't wonder that folks mutiny below, and fight on the decks above for it; it makes a plaguy uproar the whole time, and keeps the passengers for everlastinly in a state of alarm for fear they'd do mischif by bustin' the b'iler, a-runnin' aground, or gettin' foul of some other craft.
They wuz as chipper as ever, a-runnin' down the idee of women settin', before they got half through dinner. After hard and arjuous work we got the scrapin' done, and the scrubbin' done, and then we proceeded to make a move towards puttin' on the paper.
"Not so much as it would seem," was Hope MacLeod's quiet comment as she laid in place a lock of Satin Gloss's mane, and quieted him after his sympathetic plunge. "Well ef she is, she is, but I'm bettin' she knows whar she a-runnin' at," said Andrew Jackson Jefferson more quietly than the situation seemed to warrant.
"Whether he's a 'vivalist or jes' a plain preacher what folks is runnin' after, I cayn't quite make out, ma'am," he was saying. "I ain't quite thinkin' he's a 'vivalist, but de peoples is a-runnin' after him shore an' seems like dey doin' it in ev'y city he goes to. Ev'ybody want to heah him ev'ybody rich en pore young en ole.
I can't have him running after Becky." "Seems to me he's been a-runnin'." "But what would Claudia say? I don't know anything about his family. Maybe he hasn't any family. How do I know he isn't a fortune-hunter?" "Well, he isn't a bird hunter, I can tell you that. I saw him kick one of your dogs. A man that will kick a dog isn't fit to hold a gun." "No, he isn't," said the Judge, soberly.
"I dunno how this hyar line air a-runnin'," declared Grinnell, sorely beset. "I don't b'lieve it air a-runnin' north." The surveyor was hard by. He had planted his staff again, and was once more taking his bearings. He looked up for a second. "Northwest," he said. Grinnell stared for a moment; then strode up to the surveyor, and pointed with his stubby finger at a word on his deed.
The miller at Loontown wuz down to the Jonesville mill to get the loan of some bags, and Josiah happened to be there to mill that day, and heerd all about it. Cephas had got the monument, and the ornaments on it cost fur more than he expected. There wuz a wreath a-runnin' round it clear from the bottom to the top, and verses a kinder runnin' up it at the same time. And it cost fearful.
To Michael he explained that when they proffered a fee of fifty dollars, the pair of them would "come a-runnin'." Among the host of acquaintances made in their cabaret-life, two were destined, very immediately, to play important parts in the lives of Daughtry and Michael.
"'Twere all a duddering mix-up. I niver a zeed anything loike it afore. Wimmen an' childer a-runnin' in and out among us like poultry; we could'n keep sections o' fours nohow. We carried some o' the little 'uns. And girt fires a-burnin' at night loike ricks a terrible blissey on the hills.
His back was somethin' awful, but dey put him in de fiel' to work while de blood was still a-runnin'. He work right hard 'til dey lef'. Den, when he got up to de end o' de row nex' to de swamp, he lit out ag'in. "Dey never foun' 'im dat time. Dey say he foun' a cave an' fix him up a room whar he could live.
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