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A box o' Norther' Spy apples; a ha'f a dozen lemons; four-bits' worth o' walnuts or a'monds, whichever's freshest; a pint o' Puget Sound oysters fer the dressin', an' a bunch o' cel'ry. You stop by an' see about the turkey, Orville; an' I wish you'd run in 's you go by mother's, an' tell her to come up as soon as she can. She'd ought to be here now." Her husband smiled as he finished the list.
Mayfield he left off his half-dancing walk, began to limp, and approaching her he said: "Ol' steer dun kicked me on de hip." "I am sorry, Kintchin." "Yas'm. But you ain't ha'f ez sorry ez I is. Never wuz kicked by er steer, wuz you?" "No, that's an experience that hasn't fallen to me." "Wall, w'en it do fall you ain't gwine furgit it.
Now they took advantage of the general disappointment to make sarcastic and would-be-humorous remarks loud enough for the majestic occupant of the decorated carriage to hear. "Seems to me," said Thoph Black, "that them flags ought to be ha'f mast. That craft's in distress." "S-sh-h!" counciled his companion, another Come-Outer. "Don't be irreverent. Look who's cruisin' under 'em.
And at dinner time the convention taken a recess until ha'f past three in the evening with the understanding that we'd vote again at foah o'clock. "Jest as soon as our fellers had got a drink or two and a snack to eat, Colonel Bud Crittenden, he called a caucus, him being not only manager of Major Zach Taylor Simms' campaign but likewise chairman of the district committee.
Now, thahs Jake Simmons, a lazy, no-'count skunk whut won't even tote in a back log to keep his fambly frum freezin'. He's got religion ha'f a dozen times, an' teks on a leetle crazier ev'ry time.
I got fifty dollars saved for the kiddies' clothes. Here it is," he hurried on, pulling out a packet of bills from his hip pocket. "You take 'em and keep 'em against the horse. It ain't sufficient, but it's all I got. I'll pay the rest when I've made it, if your horse gets hurted. I will, sure. Say," he added, with a happy inspiration, "I'll give you a note on my claim ha'f of it. You'll do it?
"I see by this letter Cap'n Abe left for me that you're his niece his ha'f sister's child name, Louise Grayling; and that you've come to stay a spell." "Yes," the girl rejoined, still dimpling. "And I know you must be Mrs. Gallup!" "Bet Gallup. Yep. Ain't much chance of mistaking me," the woman said, still staring at Louise. "Humph! you're pretty 'nough not to need m'lasses to ketch flies.
"We did want to, but we thought all hands ought to be on deck when anything as important as this was goin' to be done." "He's been holdin' it up to the light for the last ha'f hour," sneered Captain Jerry. "Anybody 'd think it had a million dollars in it. For the land's sake, open it, Eri, 'fore he has a fit!"
An' I reckons I better git right long and look arter it all," and Minervy, still wiping her eyes, hurried from the room, Mammy's snort of outrage unheeded, and her words: "NOW what I done tole yo', baby? I tells yo' dat 'oman ain' mo'n ha'f human if she IS one ob ma own color. I'S a cullured person, but she's jist pure nigger, yo' hyar me?" and Mammy flounced from the room.
Williams's housekeeper had strained a p'int and had shaded her orders by a couple of days. "Williams and Sam started for home right off. I followed in the Shootin' Star, havin' borrered gasoline enough for the run. I reached the dock ha'f an hour after they did, and there was Fatty waitin' for me. "'Berry, says he, 'I've got a word or two to say to you.
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