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Page 92 - I tell you what, it was worth hangin in a meal bag from one Crismus to another to feel as happy as I have ever sense. I went home after we had the laugh out, and sot by the fire till I got thawed. In the forenoon all the Stallinses come over to our house, and we had one of the greatest Crismus dinners that ever was seed in Georgia, and I don't believe a happier company ever sot down to the same table. Old Miss Stallins and mother settled the match and talked over everything that ever happened in...
Page 93 - ... all over at once, but young galls always like to be engaged a while, you know, so I spose I must wait a month or so. Mary (she ses I mustn't call her Miss Mary now) has been a good deal of trouble and botheration to me; but if you could see her you wouldn't think I ought to grudge a little sufferin to git sich a sweet little wife.
Page 92 - Cato, and' make him cut the rope," ses Miss Carline. "and lets see what it is. Come here Cato and git this bag down." "Don't hurt it for the world," ses Miss Mary. Cato untied the rope that was round the jice, and let the bag down easy on the floor, and I tumbled out all covered with corn meal, from hed to foot. "Goodness gracious!" ses Miss Mary, "if it aint the Majer himself!" "Yes," ses I, "and you know you promised to keep my Crismus present as long as you lived.
Page 91 - I thought how she would be supprised in the mornin, and then it went in a canter. Bimeby the cussed old dog come up on the porch and begun to smell about the bag, and then he barked like he thought he'd treed something. "Bow! wowl wow!" ses he. Then he'd smell agin, and try to git up to the bag. "Git out!" ses I, very low, for fear the galls mought hear me. "Bow! wow!" ses he. "Be gone! you bominable fool...
Page 125 - J the Peace for said District. Whereas, complaint hath been made before me on the oath of Peter Jones, that on or about the 20th day of May, in the. year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty-three, one Joseph Jones, of the town of Pineville aforesaid, instigated by the devil and not having the fear of God before his eyes...
Page 126 - Given under my hand and seal, this day of , in the year of our Lord , at , in the [county] aforesaid.
Page 19 - I could spit on the hath, whar ther was nothin but a lighterd chunk burnin to give light. Well, we talked and talked, and I know you would like to hear all we talked about, but that would be too long. When I'm very interested in any thing, or git bother'd about anything, I can't help chawin...
Page 92 - I was froze stiff, one look at her charmin face, as 'she stood lookin down to the floor with her rogish eyes, and her bright curls fallin all over her snowy neck, would fotch'd me too. I tell you what, it was worth hangin in a meal bag from one Crismus to another to feel as happy as I have ever sense. I went home after we had the laugh out, and set by the fire till I got thawed.
Page 101 - Who bob'd you ? " ses they. I guessed the biggest fisted feller in the room, but it wasn't him.
Page 89 - Now you hear that, Miss Carline," ses I. "She ses she'll keep it all her life." "Yes, I will," ses Miss Mary— "but what is it?