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She plead her cause in de wilderness, In de wilderness, In de wilderness. She plead her cause in de wilderness. An' den I'm a-goin' home. "Old Aunt Hannah fell to my marster from his daddy. She had twelve chillun a-workin' on de place. De oldes' was named Adam an' de littlest was named Eve. She had two twins what was named Rachel an' Leah. Dey nussed my mistis' two twins.
I'll tell you wot it is, sir; them as is always a-idlin' in public-houses it don't damage at all, and them as is alvays a-workin' wen they can, it damages too much. "It's unekal," as my father used to say wen his grog worn't made half-and-half: "it's unekal, and that's the fault on it." 'I think you're right, Sam, said Mr. Pickwick, after a few moments' reflection, 'quite right.
"But what's the news, Tracey?" There is suspense in the iteration. "Well, seein's it's you, Watty " "You Tracey Tanner, you run 'long and stop your jokin'!" interrupts Hiram with authority. "'Tain't no joke; it's news, I'm tellin' you. Sa-ay, what d'ye think, Watty?" "Yes, Tracey, yes? What is it, boy?" "Thet Noo York dood," drawls Tracey, "is a-workin' for Sam Graham!" A dramatic pause ensues.
Having said which, he apologetically smeared his face all over with his shirt-sleeve, and subsided again. "It do wring my 'eart ah, that it do! to think o' pore Jarge a convic' at Bot'ny Bay!" said Old Amos, "a-workin', an' diggin', an' slavin' wi' irons on 'is legs an' arms, a-jinglin', an' ajanglin' when 'e walks."
"I ain't got nothin' agin him," he began, referring to Ralph, "he's a good enough feller for a slate-picker, for w'at I know; but that's all he is; he ain't a Burnham, no more'n I be, if he was he wouldn't be a-workin' here in the dirt; it ain't reason'ble." Before Ralph could reply, some one took up the cudgel for him. "Yes, he is too, a Burnham.
But lo and behold! after they had lived in that Western city for a few years, Tom a-workin' hard as he could to keep the wolf from the door, and from devourin' the three helpless ones, his brother returned from California as rich as a Jew, and he took his two little girls back with him and put 'em in school, and give Tom the money to start in business, and he wuz fortunate beyend any tellin' got independent rich; then his ma wuz took sick and died, he a-waitin' on her devoted to the very last.
"See here, if you heard anything unusual, I'd like to know it before I turn in." "My business is a-workin' of this wheel, an' what I says is we've gut a damned bad cargo." Wilson smiled. After all, it was probably only the constitutional jealousy that always exists between a seaman and a landsman. "All right, Martin, only we're all in the same kettle.
I've seen her sit and look at Lady Lothrop out o' the corner o' her eyes; and her old brown baggy neck would kind o' twist and work; and her eyes they looked so, that 'twas enough to scare a body. For all the world, she looked jest as if she was a-workin' up to spring at her. Lady Lothrop was jest as kind to Ketury as she always was to every poor crittur.
'Bout a year ago I was goin' 'long toward Hi Stephens's mill a-lookin' for muskrats when I heard some feller's axe a-workin' away, and I says to Hi, 'Hi, ain't that choppin' goin' on on the wife's land? and he said it was, and that Luke Shanders and his boys had been drawin' out cross-ties for the new railroad; thought I knowed it.
It's a poor place we have we've been so long without work, an' my girl's laid off with a cough. She's been a-workin' at the box-factory. If the Union give notice again, I don't know what'll become of us. Can't we do somethin'? Maybe Mrs. Grogan might give up the work if she knew how it was wid us.
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