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"Well," says I, "I've followed lion tracks where they've carried yearlin's across their backs like a fox does a goose. They're tur'ble strong." "But where did she come from?" he wonders. "As for that," says I, "don't you remember now that T 0 outfit had a yearlin' kid when it came into the country?" "That's right," says he. "It's only a mile down the canon. I'll take it home.
"Would you like to drive?" she asked Joanna, when they had taken their seats in Misleham's ancient gig, with the crate of fowls behind them. She felt rather shy of handling the reins under Joanna Godden's eye, for everyone knew that Joanna drove like a Jehu, something tur'ble. But the great woman shook her head. She felt tired, she said, with the heat. So Mrs.
"Some men, Peter, falls in love as easy as they falls out; it comes to some soft an' quiet like the dawn of a summer's day, Peter; but to others it comes like a gert an' tur'ble storm oh, that it do!
"I've heerd o' folk sellin' theirselves to the devil afore now." said he. "You be a danged fule, Joel Amos!" exclaimed the Ancient angrily. "Fule or no I never see a chap wi' such a tur'ble dark-lookin' face afore, an' wi' such eyes so black, an' sharp, an' piercin' as needles, they be ah! goes through a man like two gimblets, they do!"
And then, as he hurried forward to take our horses: "Why, Lord, Mr. Anthony, sir, we du be tur'ble glad to see 'ee eh, old lady?" This last to her who had hurried to his call a youngish woman, as bright, as cosy, as cheery, but far prettier than the inn itself. "Oh, but indeed we be j'yful to see 'ee, Mr. Anthony; us was talkin' o' you an' your bonny lady this very day.
Will you eveh furgit thet seventeenth o' August, Hiram, an' the tur'ble days whut follehed on its heels?" "Never, while life lasts," replied Gilcrest. "And, as for a comrade in time of peril, one could not want a braver or a truer than yourself, Mason.
They hed been warned agin an' agin thet it wuzn't safe outside the fort; but still they lived on out thar till thet tur'ble August mawnin' when they runs pantin' inteh Houston's with the tidings thet the savages hed attacked ther cabin. They'd been roused in the night by the stompin' an' nickerin uv the hosses.
What followed thereafter was most too quick to notice, for the poor bear let out a bawl, dropped off his limb into the midst of them ragin', tur'ble, seventy-pun hounds, an' hugged 'em to death, one after another, like he was doin' a system of health exercises.
Den you strikes a cawnfiel', den a orchid. Den you'se dar. De dawgs an' chickens will sot up a tur'ble rumpus, but you jes' ride up to de stile an' holler, 'Hello! an' some dem no-'count niggahs'll tek yo' nag an' construct you inter Miss Cynthy Ann's presence. I'd show you de way myse'f, on'y Is'e bountah fin' dat heifer; but you carn't miss de way."
It was a tur'ble hot day you had to prime yourself to spit and we was just gettin' back from drivin' some beef up to the troops at Fort Huachuca. We was due to cross the Emigrant Trail she's wore in tur'ble deep you can see the ruts to-day. When we topped the rise we see a little old outfit just makin' out to drag along.
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