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But these, after all, were some of his minor traits. I was soon to get an inkling of one of his major ones his prodigious meanness. For when I rushed about and finally found a lorcha that was to sail for Bacolod and asked him to chip in with me on provisions, he demurred. "'Ah'd like to git my own, seh, he said in that decisive drawl of his.
Ah s'posen ah mus' bee 9 or 10 years hold, for ah' carried Miss Ann backwards and forwards t' school hev'ry marnin' and den in the hevenin', ah'd stop 'round fer de mails when ah'd go fer to carry her home. "Miss Ann, she used ter gibme money, but hi didn't know what t' do wid hit.
Julie told him in such great detail that Hippy was positive he never should find his way there, but he promised to do his best to get there. "Ah'd go 'long and show you-all the way if Ah didn't have t' meet mah fellow. Bet you-all'll like him. Name's Lum Bangs an' he kin wallop any fellow in the mountains." "Do you think he could whip me?" teased Hippy smilingly. "He shore could.
I've been a trustee," he ended up feelingly. "Sandy thinks he's a mighty hand at managin' folks," put in William Winters, happy to second any one who lived in fear of the gentler sex. "But I'm willin' to make a bet right here that if he was to run again' the Dook she'd come out ahead." "Ah'm willin' to take ye ony day, Weeliam. Ah'd like to see the wumman that'd get the upper hand o' me.
Sandy McQuarry grunted scornfully. "Losh! afore Ah'd be scared by a wumman!" he exclaimed witheringly. Spectacle John looked sheepish. "There's weemin an' weemin," he announced meaningly. "I'm no more afraid of the ordinary run o' them than you, Sandy. I got a wife that can hold her own with annybody, and my word's law at home. But I'm not ashamed to say that woman's one too many for me.
Then, stifling a retort, he searched Lounsbury's face with his milky-blue eyes. "Ah'd like t' ast w'y y' didn' tell me 'bout th' track when Ah seen y' las'," he observed suspiciously. The storekeeper gave a hearty laugh. "And why didn't you say you had daughters?" he demanded. Instantly a change came over the elder man. He darkened angrily. His breath shortened, as if he had been running.
Yes'em, but ah thinks them hosses got away from the Rebels; seem lak ah heard they did." "Hosses? Ah wishes ah had me a team right now, and ah'd make me my own good livin! No'em, don't want no mule. They is set on havin they own way, an the contrariest critters! But a mule is a wuk animal, an eats little. Lotsa wuk in a mule.
He's got a kind of a way with him an' he sits dahn with the like of huz, and he talks to us as if we was men in place o' bein' cattle, which is the way with most on 'em. Here's good luck to Captain Volnay, an' if ah'd got a glass o' that steamin' poonch they'n got in Aberdeen, ode bird, ah'd scald my throat with a relish.
Sure knows dat place mighty well!" "Well, if you'll take us there and then row us down to the town where our vessel is lying, we'll pay you well for the trouble and give you a good supper and breakfast. Will you do it?" "Sure Ah will," replied Doright. "Ah'd be right smart proud to he'p youall. Is you ready to go right now?" he added.
"Won't you-all dance this nex' one, Mr. Baron? Ah'll get ye a partner." "I fear I should make too many mistakes. I do not understand well enough English to know quickly what says the director." "Oh, yo' partner 'll tell ye all that." "Then, if you will be that partner, will I try." "Oh, no. Hit looks like Ah'd been askin' you." "But no, Mrs.
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