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Johnson in order to quiet her daughter's mind. "But I want it now," continued Nellie. "I'm very hungry." "Hush!" said Mrs. Johnson. "An' I had de finest brekfust what was ever invented," said Washington, rolling his big eyes. "Mud turkle eggs, ham, preserves, coffee " "That will do, Washington," said the professor. "It only makes our mouths water to think about such things."
As Turkle and his friends were always warm supporters of the Sheriff, a fact of which they did not fail to remind him, Thompson was not averse to letting him off, especially as he felt tolerably sure that the Judge would, as they said, forget all about the matter, or, if he remembered it, would, as he had done before, simply order him to discharge the prisoner.
The crowd parted as if by magic, and the Sheriff led his drunken constituent to the bar, where his befuddled brain took in just enough of the situation to make him quiet enough. The Judge bent his sternest look on him until he quailed. "Have you no more sense of propriety than to disturb a court of justice in the exercise of its high function?" Turkle, however, was too drunk to understand this.
I don't forget the pretty girls leastways, the prettiest girl in the county. Your father and I " "I heard you made a mistake about my husband and Jim Turkle. I thought maybe you might think I was Mrs. Turkle." There was the least perceptible lifting of her shoulders and drawing down of her mouth, but quite enough to suggest Jenny Turkle 's high shoulders and grim face.
"The Judge won't know anything about it. He 'll never think of it again," pleaded several of Turkle's friends. "You know he has ordered a drunken man put there before and never said any more about it just told you to discharge him next day." Turkle stiffened up with hope. "Yes, Aleck." He leaned on the Sheriff's arm heavily.
But the Sheriff was firm. "No. The Judge told me to put you in jail and I 'm goin' to do it." He took two huge iron keys from his deputy and rattled them fiercely. Turkle shrank back with horror. "You ain't goin' to put me in thar, Aleck! Not in that hole! Not just for a little drop o' whiskey. It was your whiskey, too, Aleck. I was drinkin' yo' health, Aleck. You know I was."
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