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Mocking shouts followed after them, pistol-shots, even the scraping of a fiddle and shuffling on the ledge. But they kept on, cursing across the river and back to Daddy Marcum, who was standing in the porch, peering for them through the dawn, with a story to tell about Isom. "The critter was teched in the head," the old man said, and this was what the Braytons, too, believed.
We must stop for Mr. Filbert." The next passenger was a thin, wiry little man, who seemed to beg pardon constantly for being in somebody's way. And after Mr. Tisbett had slung his hair trunk on the rack, Mr. Filbert stepped gently into the stage-coach. "Excuse me, Marm," he said to the woman. "Did I step on your toes?" "You hain't hurt me none," said Mrs. Beaseley, "and you hain't teched my toes.
"Fine wimming," remarked Sott, sagely, "is like pizen vine, pooty and clingin, but pesky dangerous; I hadn't better teched Pluggie. A woming of your own is worse yet. She spiles on you, and you can't sell her as you do a hoss or a nigger." Pierce looked at the darky, who grinned self-consciously. "How many times over has Abe sold you since you ran away from the island?"
Ef thar's a hair o' eyther o' thar heads teched, you'll hear the crack o' Walt Wilder's rifle, and see its bullet go into the breast o' him as harms 'em. I don't care who or what he air, or whar he be.
Now is the day when every man oughter come out an' show their colors," said the woman, quoting from Beardsley. "That means Marcy Gray," said Tom. "I wish I could see a gang of armed men take him out of the house and carry him off." "He mustn't be teched," said the woman very decidedly. "Who mustn't Marcy?" exclaimed Tom and Mark in a breath. "Who said so? What's the reason he mustn't be touched?
"Nobody teched your outfit, I dun see to that," said the colored man. "I slept right by your hosses an' things." "Did you talk to those men who came in late last night?" asked Dave. "They did most of the talkin', boss. They wanted to know all about your party whar you was a-gwine, an' all that. But I didn't give 'em no satisfaction, I didn't.
"Link, where are my letters?" said the schoolmaster. "I didn't take 'em, Master!" cried Link, crumpling up visibly in his sheer terror. "I didn't. I never teched 'em! It was Sis. I told her not to I told her you'd be awful mad, but she wouldn't tend to me. It was Sis took 'em. Ask her, if you don't believe me." The schoolmaster believed him. Nothing was too horrible to believe just then.
I had the tenants separate this lumber for different uses on the farm and the scrap lumber was to be taken to the cabin or the main dwelling to be used as kindling and not a negroe would use this kindling. One negro a tall black man around seventy years old said, "No dat wood wont burn". I asked, "Why"? He said, "Mr. G would sho hant me if I teched a single piece of dat wood ter burn."
"He jest 'lowed that if 'stid of warin' pants an' straddlin' hosses, ye'd pick ye out an upstandin' man an' wed him, thar mout come ter be some real men in ther fam'ly." The girl's face crimsoned. "I thought ye said hit war me ye fought erbout, Joe." "I did say so, Alexander." "An' ye didn't see no aspersion thet called fer a fight in ther way them words teched you?"
A dollar a day for keeping your nails tuned up and I ain't sure he don't have 'em done twice on Sundays. Mine ain't never had a file teched to 'em yet, he says. 'I see that, I says. 'If any foul-minded person ever accuses you of it, you got abundant proofs of your innocence right there with you. As for Chester, I says, 'he has an object. 'He has, says Buck. 'Not what you think, I says.
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