Dode's Aunt Perrine, a widow of thirty years' standing, had come over to "see to things durin' this murnful affliction."

I hire about a hundred hands on my ranches durin' the long off season, an' when harvest comes round a good many more.

"An' she helped me win out durin' my struggle here.

" Durin' that evening we give the impression that we was well heeled, so the tribe wasn't in no hurry to break camp on the following morning.

"I 'member durin' of the war he buried his stuff-silverware and stuffand he never took it up.

That was durin' of the war.

What that good man must have suffered durin' those ten long years, nobody but himself could know.

Me and him growed up togedder an' I wuz his body guard durin' de wahr.

"I tole de Governor mah 'sperience wif de Republican Party durin' de wahr.

"Our white folks took us to Texas durin' of the War.

I went to Como, Mississippi twice a week to get the mail all durin the war.

I was born durin' a battle between the North and South at Murfreesboro.

Ah wuz a big gull durin de time uv de centennial snow.

Yes'm ah wuz live durin de wah.

I was a big girl durin' the war.

"Yes, I does still member the songs we sung durin' the war

"Durin' slavery there was stockmen.

"Pshaw, dey was hard times durin de war, my Missus and sum of de nigger gals and de chilluns hae to stay in the woods several days ter keep way from de soldiers.

'Twill be useless for you to deny that meself an' the Sergeant here (points to the Sergeant who is still on the floor) have caught you drinkin' on these licensed premises durin' your hours o' duty.

have to face our Waterloo some time durin' our lives, when we have fought the battle and lost, when the ground is covered with slain Hopes, Ambition, Happiness, when the music is stilled, the stringed instruments and drums broken to pieces, or givin' out only wailin' accompaniments to the groans and cries of the dyin' layin' low in the dust.

His uncle didn't believe in him no more than I did, but stood it with him on account of Karen, bein' a man that loved domestic comfort, and havin' lived in dirt, on pan-cakes and canned meats durin' different rains of incompetence materialized in hired girl form, before Karen come.

Deacon Henzy loves hard cider and keeps a kag on tap durin' the summer, he sez it is for his liver, but liver or no liver it

And I see with joy that the shadder on my pardner's face lifted quite a little durin' our stay there, but of course this belated us and we didn't git to St. Louis till Saturday late in the afternoon.

She's been away to school and college for years, but I had often seen her durin' her vacations at Thomas Jefferson's.

I must say though that Truth didn't have any clothes on, she wuz jest settin' there on top of the world jest as naked as she could be, she could have wore one of my bib aprons as well as not, durin' the Fair anyway, whilst there wuz so many folks round