A Bundle of YarnsH. Gregory, 1899 - 249 páginas |
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Página 213 - Mother, may I go out to swim?" "Yes, my darling daughter. Hang your clothes on a hickory limb But don't go near the water.
Página 93 - ONG about the time me an' Ed was just gettin' on friendly relations with our 'teens, a young Methodist preacher just out from England got stationed on the Milton circuit an' took the notion of holdin' protracted meetin' in the little red schoolhouse. These revival services was a big event in the neighborhood in them days an' be yet, I've no doubt. You know, we never had much of public amusement or excitement, and a winter without a protracted meetin
Página 4 - Jane hangin' on and yellin' for all she was worth. Ed laid right down in the straw and shrieked with laughter, and I was grinnin...
Página 100 - Tinker give up in despair an' left off goin' for'ard, but me an' Edv hung it out. Finally, one night in bed I felt Ed's big toe scrapin' along my calf an' I knew somethin' was comin'. " George," says he, "I b'lieve I've got it!" "Got what? " says I. " Religion," says he. "When did you get it? " says I. "Well, I've been figurin," says he, "and I guess I've got it.
Página 103 - says he, sobbin'. " Dum the martins, too ! " says he, glancin' up at them. " Gosh dum 'em ! " "Ed," says I, "you'll go to the bad place, sure." " I don't give a dum ! " says he. "I'll go to Heaven," says I, "and you'll go to the bad place.
Página 1 - When me an' Ed an' Jane was just little fellers (I was two years older than Ed, and Ed was two years older than Jane), we didn't have the fancy toys to amuse ourselves with that children have now-days.
Página 100 - ud look at one 'nother sideways an' then giggle to ourselves, but Ed kept as serious as a judge. We didn't git religion that night or the next. Will Tinker give up in despair an' left off goin' for'ard, but me an
Página 36 - Church shed where none of the other fellers would be likely to spot me, for we was mighty sensitive on the point of our turnouts in them days, I tell you. We got to the party all right, and I see that Mary Jane was enjoyin
Página 98 - ... Ed went forward an' left me by the stove I'd be looked on as an outcast sinner, and Ed 'ud crow over me like sixty if he got religion an' I didn't. But matters changed in my favor the next night. When the call to come forward came from the young preacher, Ed was pale as a sheet, and didn't stir. " I thought you was goin' for'ard ? " says I in a whisper. He chawed a sliver, but didn't say a word. "Ain't you goin' to git religion ? " says I, nudgin
Página 96 - Well, this fall, long comes the young English preacher to hold protracted meetin', and he was the most earnest young feller you ever see. He had the "penitentiary" bench full of "convicts" the first week, as old Dan. the French tailor, used to say. Me an' Ed an' a few more boys set back by the stove an' made no move, but we could feel that the spirit or somethin' was workin