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"'What, said she, and she raised herself up off ob de pillar, and she larfed, and rolled ober and ober, and tosticated about almost in a conniption fit, 'you old goose, said she, 'you onaccountable fool, and den she larfed and rolled ober agin, I tought she would a tumbled off on de floor, 'do go way; you is too foolish to talk to, but turn my pillar again.
"'Elder, says I, 'I thought when a man jined your sect, 'he could never "fall off agin," but I see you ain't no safer than other folks arter all. "'Come, says he, 'let me be, that's a good soul, it's bad enough, without being larfed at, that's a fact. I can't account for this caper, no how. "'It's very strange too, ain't it! What on airth got into the hoss to make him act so ugly.
Sall wrote it down, she said it warnt a bad idee that; but father larfed, he said he guessed minister's courtin days warnt over, when he made such pretty speeches as that are to the galls. Now, who would go to expose his wife or his darters, or himself, to the dangers of such a climate for the sake of 30 bushels of wheat to the acre, instead of 15.
If I have taken it away, I have done him a great sarvice, for he has a smart chance of gettin' a better one; and if he don't find a swap to his mind, why no character is better nor a bad one. "Well, the old judge and the whole court larfed right out like any thin'; and the jury, without stirrin' from the box, returned a vardict for the defendant.
"'Parley vous French, sais I, 'Mountsheer? At that, they sot to, and larfed again more than ever, I thought they would have gone into the high strikes, they hee-hawed so. "Well, one on 'em, that was a Duke, as I found out afterwards, said 'O yees, Saar, we spoked English too. "'Lawful heart! sais I, 'what's the joke?
I thought that 'ere Quincy granite was so amazin' strong all natur' wouldn't break it. 'Why you foolish critter, says he, 'it ain't the buildin' that's broke, it's the consarn that's smashed. 'Well, says I, 'I know folks are plaguilly consarned about it, but what do you call folks' "smashin' their consarns"? Father, he larfed out like anything; I thought he never would stop; and sister Sall got right up and walked out of the room, as mad as a hatter.
"`Shut the book, sir, says I, `or they'll all escape! "It was only a small joke I meant, but the critter took it for a big 'un an' larfed at it till he made me half ashamed. "`D'ye know any of these birds? he axed, arter we'd looked at a lot of 'em. "`Know 'em? says I; `I should think I does! Why, I've lived among 'em ever since I was a babby!
'Try that cake, dear, she said, 'I made it myself, and your dear old mother taught me how to do it; and then she laid back her head, and larfed like anything. 'Sam, said she, 'what a memory you have; I had forgot all about the cherry-tree, I don't recollect a word of it. "'And the calf? said I.
It's considered ongenteel, so I jist puts my finger on my nose, and winks, as much as to say, 'I ain't such a cussed fool as you take me to be, I can tell you. "When he seed I'd found him out, he larfed like any thing. Guess he found that was no go, for I warn't born in the woods to be scared by an owl, that's a fact.
Old Clay pleased him, you may depend; he turned round and clapped his hands, and larfed, and waved his hat to his officers to come on; and they whipped, and spurred, and galloped, and raced for dear life; but we dropped 'em astarn like any thing, and he larfed again, heartier than ever There is no people a'most, like to ride so fast as sailors; they crack on, like a house a fire.
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