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"Say, Miss Searight," she called, her forearm across her forehead to shade her eyes, the hand still holding the fish's head, "say, while you're out this morning will you keep an eye out for that dog of our'n you know, Dan the one with liver'n white spots? He's run off again ain't seen him since yesterday noon. He gets away an' goes off fighting other dogs over the whole blessed county.
"Yes, sir," said David, "the's worse folks 'n Polly Bixbee, if she don't put on no style; an' the fact is, that some of the folks that lives here the year 'round, an' always have, an' call the rest on us 'village people, 'r' jest as countryfied in their way 's me an' Polly is in our'n only they don't know it. 'Bout the only diff'rence is the way they talk an' live." John looked at Mr.
It was the only time I had ever heard him speak to the players at such a stage. "Only six batters, Rube," called out Spears. "Boys, it's a grand game, an' it's our'n!" The Rube had enough that inning to dispose of the lower half of the Buffalo list without any alarming bids for a run.
"They air in better houses then we po white uns, thur chilan air er wearin better cloes an er gittin moe larnin then our'n. An gentermen surs jes tackle eny er them little uns er'n an they'd surprise yer; why they kin spit latin faster then er terbacky worm kin spit terbacky. Who give ther nigger ther stick ter break our heads? Who done it I say?
He was a-riding off our pinto that we left here by mistake last winter, with our saddle and things, and a-leading your two broncs, so we just stopped him and gathered 'em in, and I reckon they're all our'n now, most of 'em, anyhow.
Well, I kept the sassy little hen there wasn't anything else ter do but one day Marg, she followed Nella-Rose up and when she saw what was going on, she stamped in and cried out: 'So! yo' can have playthings while us-all go starved! Yo' can steal what's our'n, an' with that she took the bantam and fo' I could say a cuss, she wrung that chicken's neck right fo' Nella-Rose's eyes!"
What right had he ter bust our still an' break up our wu'm and pour our mash an' singlings out on the ground? Ain't it our'n? Ain't the corn an' apples an' peaches our'n? Didn't we grow 'em? an' what right hev the gover'ment ter say we kin eat 'em, but can't bile 'em eh? They b'long ter we-uns an' gosh! the gover'ment can't hender! But we never meant no harm ter Briscoe. Lawd!
"Never thought one way or t'other," he answered. "Jethro never had much to do with the boys. He's always in that tannery, or out buyin' of hides. He does make a sharp bargain when he buys a hide. We always goes shares on our'n."
Grinnell is going to tote along with her pumpkins to the Fair, and the little ones and the crooked fellers we'll eat at home; but there are twenty-one nice ones to sell." Mike expressed his admiration by the boyish exclamation, "Gee, ain't them bouncers? How 'd ye do it? Our'n don't amount to shucks this year." "That's what Mrs. Grinnell said about hers.
"Perhaps," said he, "that 'ere Eagle might with more propriety have been taken off as perched on an anchor, instead of holding it in his claws, and I think it would have been more nateral; but I suppose it was some stupid foreign artist that made that 'ere blunder, I never seed one yet that was equal to our'n.
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