Word: gits
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Probably some of our boys would look right awkward in evenin' clothes, but if you want to see a real pretty sight you ought to watch a few of these college bred fellahs tryin' to set a cowpony. Back where we come from, the boys don't git much chance for an edication, although some of the fellahs ridin' tonight have graduated from big colleges. You eastern boys don't get the same chance to build up your bodies and practical judgment...
...Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle old Paint for the last time and ride.* The Paramount audience that day suddenly found itself strangely affected, listened as it would have listened to an old familiar ballad. For the last time Billy Hill's cowboy coaxed his steers-into line: Git along, little dogie, git along, git Git along, little dogie, git along...
...full o' haze that it looks like a lot o' spiders has been stringin' their webs around. Warm soft air, an' still it's got a bite in it, too. The days is gittin' late. Purty soon it'll be time to git out the old houn'-dog an' start out after coons, some o' these frosty nights, or maybe git a possum up a persimmon tree...
...belongings with housebreaker. Chaco is not such a Godforsaken country as people think: many of the boys back on leave are enthusiastic and want to settle there after this war, which can have only one ending-either recognition of obvious Paraguayan rights or Paraguay forcing Bolivia slowly to "git" even if it took ten years to do it-Kundt or no Kundt. The Chaco is studded all along its coast by prosperous townships-Villa Hayes (so named in honor of U. S. President Charles Rutherford Hayes), Puerto Pinasco (American company), Puerto Casado, Puerto Sastre, etc. Extensive cattle ranges with Hereford...
...Knoxville, Tenn. four Negroes were arraigned on a charge of having taken the head out of a murdered man's grave, planning to pray to it three hours daily for six days for directions how to find buried treasure. Said Arthur Bolden: "Somehows I felt I had to git that head and talk...