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...summut kinky, I'll admit," put in a new voice, that of old Batt Belcher - a dry and wizened specimen of the retired fisherman species. "She jes' tells him up an' down wut she thinks, an' - wal, ole Jake ain't none too pious, an' he jes' socks it to her agin. An' so it goes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A POSETT EPISODE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...foot of a large maple-tree whose branches overhung the water. Being a Boston man, my first impulse was to beg pardon for my unintentional intrusion, and beat a hasty retreat; but, upon perceiving my intention, the maiden, somewhat to my surprise, remarked, with more amiability than grammatical accuracy, "Wal, you ain't a-going, are you? Do I look dangerous?" Here was a nice opening for a pretty speech; but as I did not think it quite good taste to make a pretty speech upon such short acquaintance, I merely remarked, "No, you don't "(for she certainly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STANDARD AT WELLESLEY. | 4/2/1880 | See Source »

WHEN I got to Mulligan's Junction, Ga., on my trip South, I wanted to go on to Pelican Swamp, and I asked the old Yankee conductor of the Lightning Express when it would leave for that point. "Wal," he replied, chimerically, "if Bill gets the wood sawed and split for the ingine, and - let's see - to-morrow's the 1st of the month, that's washin' day, if Nancy, that 'ere old niggeress don't use up all the water, and if there should happen to be another feller or missis going your way, and if there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SOUTHERN LIGHTNING EXPRESS. | 1/14/1876 | See Source »

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