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"I was 'most ashamed to bring it, it's so wonderful little. I tole Cousin Sally, 'Why didn't you bring me a bigger book? And she sayed she did try to get a bigger one, but they was all. There's one in that li-bry with four hunderd pages. I tole her, now, she's to try to get me that there one next Sunday before it's took by somebody. This one's 'most too little."
Seems like Crane and Keith got a might timid, and yestiddy they up and sold out that mill to a friend of mine actin' for me for fifty-five thousand dollars. Figger I got it dirt cheap. Wuth close to a hunderd thousand, hain't it?... I'm goin' to move it to Coldriver, lock, stock, and barrel." "Baines," said Castle, presently, "the G. and B. will keep hands off your valley.
He retreated back across th' river, an' got up ag'in a bluff 'bout three hunderd feet high. Reno Hill, they call it now. An' there we fought for five or six hours, when Benteen, who'd bin fightin' in th' center, heard heavy firin' over on his right where Custer was.
"Yass'm, pretty well, but not nothin' like hit useter be back in ole Vehginny, when 'bout er hunderd niggers git to prayin' all to onct. Thass whut goin' to fotch the powah on er suffrin' human soul yes, ma'm!" "Now, Aunt Lucy," said Mary Ellen sagely, "there isn't anything wrong with your soul at all.
I'd believe he's a hant if 't wasn't for his tracks they're the biggest I ever seen. He must weigh two hunderd and fifty. But he's a foxy cuss. That buck, shorely to God, has wings!" We were at table in the Carolina room when Matt Hyde appeared. Sure enough, he bore a turkey hen. "I was callin' a gobbler when this fool thing showed up. I fired a shoot as she riz in the air, but only bruk her wing.
I got your five hunderd f'r you and then I seen a way to git ten thousand more. Here she be. Count it.... I don't guess there's any way this here money could be put to better use." "F'r us? Ten thousand " "I'll handle it f'r you. Give you int'rest of six hunderd a year. You kin marry like you planned, and if your childern objects you kin tell 'em to go to blazes.... You'll want a place to live.
Smelts at her window two floors below. "I counted five pairs of curlin' irons with my own eyes," said Mrs. Smelts, "an' as fer bottles! If they took out one, they took out a hunderd." "You don't reckon that there little alcohol stove was all she had to cook on, do you?" called up Mrs. Gorman from the pavement below. "Maybe that's what she het her curlin' irons on!" was Mrs.
Maybe you won't git to do no reg'lar cussin' a-tall. You see, McKettrick he up and made a little error himself. Regardin' me makin' an error. Yass.... I don't calc'late to make errors costin' upward of a hunderd thousand. No.... Not," he said, "that I got any doubts about the word 'westerly' appearin' in all the papers McKettrick's got regardin' this enterprise.
"Well, I know Simeon Wright don't put in cattle where he's going to lose on them," replied Plant. "If he's willing to risk it, I'll back his judgment." "Wright's a crowder," the older Pollock took up the argument quietly. "He owns fifty thousand head. Me and George, here, we have five hunderd. He just aims to summer his cattle, anyhow.
That made the total capital stock in the mill worth a quarter of a million of anybody's money; cost us exactly thirty thousand dollars, didn't it? Nice deal.... And you cleaned up an extra thirteen thousand on your side issue. Not bad." "I git five hunderd shares worth fifty thousand dollars, don't I? Then my thirteen. That's sixty-three thousand.
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