The Wit and Humor of America: Bill's Courtship, by StantonMarshall Pinckney Wilder |
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Page 883
... Suggs . " What's that ? " Simon explained the process of rooting for the peg : how the operator got upon his knees , keeping his arms stiff by his sides , leaned forward , and extracted the peg with his teeth . " So you git upon your ...
... Suggs . " What's that ? " Simon explained the process of rooting for the peg : how the operator got upon his knees , keeping his arms stiff by his sides , leaned forward , and extracted the peg with his teeth . " So you git upon your ...
Page 884
... Suggs , in an ironically affectionate tone of voice . “ I had it under my leg , thar , to make it on Bill , the first time it come trumps , " was the ready reply . " What's trumps ? " asked Mr. Suggs , with a view of ar- riving at the ...
... Suggs , in an ironically affectionate tone of voice . “ I had it under my leg , thar , to make it on Bill , the first time it come trumps , " was the ready reply . " What's trumps ? " asked Mr. Suggs , with a view of ar- riving at the ...
Page 886
... Suggs made no remark to any one while he was sizing up Bill , -a process which , though by no means novel to Simon , seemed to excite in him a sort of painful interest . He watched it closely , as if endeavoring to learn the precise ...
... Suggs made no remark to any one while he was sizing up Bill , -a process which , though by no means novel to Simon , seemed to excite in him a sort of painful interest . He watched it closely , as if endeavoring to learn the precise ...
Page 887
... Suggs groaned , as he was wont to do in the pulpit , at this display of Simon's viciousness . " Simon , " said he , " you're a poor ignunt creetur . You don't know nothin ' , and you've never been nowhars . If I was to turn you off ...
... Suggs groaned , as he was wont to do in the pulpit , at this display of Simon's viciousness . " Simon , " said he , " you're a poor ignunt creetur . You don't know nothin ' , and you've never been nowhars . If I was to turn you off ...
Page 888
... Suggs had once in his life gone to Augusta ; an extent of travel which in those days was a little unusual . His consideration among his neighbors was considerably increased by the circumstance , as he had all the benefit of the popular ...
... Suggs had once in his life gone to Augusta ; an extent of travel which in those days was a little unusual . His consideration among his neighbors was considerably increased by the circumstance , as he had all the benefit of the popular ...
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Adnah ain't asked Atmore Aunt Matilda Aunt Phrony Aunt Sarah ball beautiful Bob Smith bout called captain Cash Clytie crèche creeturs daddy Danny dear Dickey dogs Earth ev'yb'dy exclaimed eyes f'um Fantasm father girl Gummage gwine hands heard hisse'f Hyar Itinerant Tinker JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY jist John Graham kase lady laughed lecture looked Lootgert mammy manager Marianne Melinda mighty Mo Mercer Moon mother musical never Nigger night Oo-goo-coo piano planets raidy reckon replied Rollo roun ruthers shouted sighed Simon sinful apples grow smiling split infinitive star story suddenly Suggs talk tell Thanny thar thing thought told tucken turned Uncle Joe voice Voltaire w'at w'en whar dem sinful wife woman yonner whar young
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Page 803 - By the struggling moonbeam's misty light And the lantern dimly burning. No useless coffin enclosed his breast, Not in sheet nor in shroud we wound him; But he lay like a warrior taking his rest With his martial cloak around him.
Page 804 - But half of our heavy task was done When the clock struck the hour for retiring : And we heard the distant and random gun That the foe was sullenly firing. Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory.
Page 829 - Followed by that touching recitative: " Shet up, or I will spank you! " To which succeeds a grand crescendo movement, representing the flight of the child with the pancake, the pursuit of the mother, and the final arrest and summary punishment of the former, represented by the rapid and successive strokes of the castanet. The turning in for the night follows; and the deep and stertorous breathing of the encampment is well given by the bassoon, while the sufferings and trials of an unhappy father...
Page 830 - ... yoked up — with a small drum and triangle; the watches, purses, and other valuables of the conquered Pi Utahs, are stored away in a camp-kettle, to a small movement on the piccolo, and the train moves on, with the grand chorus: — "We'll soon be thar, Gee up Bolly! Whoo hup! whoo haw!
Page 846 - Lord, whin th' case is all over, the jury'll pitch th' tistimony out iv th' window, an' consider three questions : ' Did Lootgert look as though he'd kill his wife ? Did his wife look as though she ought to be kilt ? Isn't it time we wint to supper?
Page 892 - Rise Jack!" said Simon, cutting half a dozen cards from the top of the pack, and presenting the face of the bottom one for the inspection of his father. It was the Jack of hearts ! Old Mr. Suggs staggered back several steps with uplifted eyes and hands ! "Marciful master!
Page 886 - He watched it closely, as if endeavoring to learn the precise fashion of his father's knot ; and when at last Bill was swung up a-tiptoe to a limb, and the whipping commenced, Simon's eye followed every movement of his father's arm ; and as each blow descended upon the bare shoulders of his sable friend, his own body writhed and "wriggled
Page 887 - Your daddy's a-tryin' to give you some good advice, and you a-pickin' up his words that way. I knowed a young man once, when I lived in Ogletharp, as went down to Augusty and sold a hundred dollars worth of cotton for his daddy, and some o...
Page 883 - Simon, just at that moment, very wickedly pushed a half inch further down. Just as the breeches and hide of the boy were stretched to the uttermost, old Mr. Suggs brought down his longest hickory, with both hands, upon the precise spot where the tension was greatest. With a loud yell, Bill plunged forward, upsetting Simon, and rolled in the grass ; rubbing the castigated part with fearful energy. Simon, though overthrown, was unhurt ; and he was menTally complimenting himself upon the sagacity which...
Page 891 - Occasionally a sprightly knave would insist on facing his neighbor; or, pressing his edge against another's, half double himself up, and then skip away. But Elder Jed'diah perseveringly continued his attempts to subdue the refractory, while heavy drops burst from his forehead, and ran down his cheeks. All of a sudden an idea, quick and penetrating as a rifle-ball, seemed to have entered the cranium of the old man. He chuckled audibly. The devil had suggested to Mr. Suggs an impromptu "stock...