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...sounds of strife grew louder and more intelligible, passengers perceived that the words "pay up" . . . dime . . . fare . . . tryin' to get away with something, huh? . . . No I didn't . . . paid before . . ." emanated at regular intervals from the conductor's sanctum...
...when twitted by the prosecutor for forgetting certain details, leaned out of the witness chair and yelled: "And you wouldn't remember so good either if you had been as scared as I was that night with Pappy a-yellin' and a-cussin' and Edith a-tryin' to outrun him!" Edith, argued her lawyers, had exercised no more than her "God-given right of self-defense." But that did not impress the mountain jury, which, after less than an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict which sent Edith on her way to prison...
...said Jamesy complacently, 'to be the best teller of a ghost story in all Kerry. Paddy Joe Long is good, an' Rogue McCoy, me curate, is damn' good, but give me two pints an' I'll make your eyes crooked an' you tryin' to look through the back of your head...
...envy college men sometimes, and I 'spect they often wish they could ride like we do. 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...
...canna quite mak' oot what TIME is tryin' tae bring tae its readers by the "gaping" in that literary gem. I was born and brocht up ("raised" we say oot here) among the Ayrshire yokels, an' I dinna min' seein' them gap much, except when they might be tryin' tae read a newsmagazine as dull as TIME. No that ony siccan drivel was produced in Ayrshire, but there bein' nae censorship on dullness, some yawn-provokers frae the ootside at times got on tae the newsstaunds, an' were whyles bocht by chaps...