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Lucky I hadn't put down the carpet yet, though I'd laid out Oh, my suz!" This was the first coherent sentence, if such it can be called, which escaped the terrified woman, while she was being undressed and freshly clothed in the warm things Eunice had provided. "Yes, dear heart. But never mind the stairs. Did you find Katharine?" "Nuther hide nor hair of her.
"'Halloa, Jack! I ses, 'no more o' that. "'No, he says, 'there's no more; it's all gone. "'Stop a bit," says I; 'that wun't do, nuther. "'That wun't do? he says.
I seen nothin' 't all! An' I ain't gwine tell no lie, nuther, 'cause I ain't gwine look!" Thus thinking, he cautiously drew back, and, with ashen face and limbs that through trembling almost failed to support him, he stealthily crept away until out of earshot; then took to his heels and fled.
"I dun'no' how fur smallpox kin travel an' it jes' mulls and mulls in ye afore it breaks out don't it, S'briny?" "Don't ax me," said Mrs. Brusie, with a worried air. "I ain't no yerb doctor, nor nurse tender, nuther. Ethelindy is beyond my understandin'." She was beyond her own understanding, as she sat weeping slowly, silently.
You see, Tess?" "I don't see I don't know, nuther. But what the student says air right. If the little kid ain't to see God's face 'less he air slapped on the head with water in the church, then the brat air got to be tooked there." "But but, Tess, is it possible?" Again the squatter bent her head to gather the words.
His words were low, and he raised his forefinger to his head significantly. "She ain't allers a stayin' in the squatter country nuther," he pursued. "She takes that damn ugly cat of her'n and scoots away for a time. And none of 'em up there don't know where she goes. Hones' Injun, don't she never come about this here scow, Lem?"
I ain't right sho wat time hit wuz; but den I knows hit wuz some fightin' or nuther." "It was the 'Declination of Independence'," said Diddie. "It's in the little history; and it wasn't any fightin', it was a writin'; and there's the picture of it in the book: and all the men are sittin' roun', and one of 'em is writin'." "Yes, dat's jes wat I hyearn," said Uncle Bob.
I ain't tuck a sol'tary lock er Als'on's cotton; an' I wouldn't, nuther, ter save my life." "Reckon yer kin fool me?" demanded the triumphant Edny Ann. Then she called Alston with the O which Southerners inevitably prefix: "O Als'on! O Als'on! come yere! quick!" "Don't, please don't, tell him," Little Lizay pleaded. "I'll give yer my new cal'ker dress ef yer won't tell nobody."
"I allow she didn't die, nuther," said Jos; "not ser long ez she hed thet young un to look arter!" "Yer air right, Jos!" said Aunt Ri. "I allow yer air right. Thar couldn't nothin' kill her, short er wild beasts, ef she hed ther baby 'n her arms! She ain't dead, not ef the baby ez erlive, I allow. Thet's some comfort." Felipe sat with his face buried in his hands.
"Well, Marse Kenneth, ef hit ain' de Sherry place hit shorely am de Sheridan place, an' ef hit ain't nuther one o' dem hit mus' belong to Marse Dimmit er " "It is neither of these, you rascal. We are to the north of them, if I remember our directions rightly. Mr. Hollingsworth and the Kisers live hereabouts, according to Phineas Striker. A house with a clump of trees, it is Mr. Huff's farm.
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