Because the Gallopin Gent was comin down with despatches for Boney, and they were keepin the road for him.
But I hadn't gone above a dozen steps, when I heard himcomin a'ter me.
I could hear it comin meself--low and far, and all the while a-growin like a mutter o thunder.
In dreams I heerd the bee and grasshopper, Like on that mornin, buz in Rington Hollow, Shell live till swallow-time and die then shell mer, For never will a rye come back to gentleman her Wot leaves her till the comin o the swallow.
Rhona, she sez, that tarno rye you love, He s thinkin on you; don t you go and weep rove; You ll see him at the comin o the swallow.
But when I woke-like--Im the gal wot waits Alone, I sez, the comin o the swallow.
The months are long, but mammy says you ll live By thinkin o the comin o the swallow.
Dey was jes' paradin' de streets at nite and you'd meet dem comin at you round de dark corners and all de houses everywhere was ha'nted.
I tripped up over my skirt as I wor comin up to look at Arthur.
As we wuz comin we stopped at de Mississippi Rivuh.
Enroute tuh dis country we come through Tennessee an ah membuh comin through Memphis an Pine Bluff to Fordyce.
He knew his lease wor ommost spent, He'd sooin be called away; Yet he wor happy an content, An waited th' comin day.
Jest as I was goin in the door, I met Mr. Chase comin out.
It got noised around that the Kernel was comin out with some big thing in his Messige, an every Congressman, wen he got to Washinton, run rite to the White House to give the Kernel advice.
Sometimes the sticks get twisted together, or tangled up like the logs comin down the river, in Maine in the spring of the year, and it requires a purty hard jar to start 'em loose.
The gal will be comin back afore long, you may be sure, but she'll be cured of niggerism; that will be one good thing.
Comin as you do, covered with the dust and blood of the battle-field, we hail you as the friend of the oppressed African and the savior of your country.
Two of 'em had a rale spat on the boat while we were comin here.
But you tell the Downingville folks that jest as soon as the rebelyun is put down, I'm comin down ther.
Seward sed, "that, comin to the pint, furrin affairs never looked better.
Now, the 4th of July is comin along close at hand, an I must be thinking about gettin back to Downingville, for I must be there before the 4th.
Wen I writ you last, I told you that Linkin wanted me to look into the financies and cifer where we was a comin to, but I ain't had time to do it yet.
It is comin like an avalanche from the eternal hills of Giberalter.
Comin up the river the day was warm, an we all felt first rate that McClellan was as well off as he was; the Kernel said he felt jest as if he would like to have a swim.
The seseshers did not trubbel us comin down the river, an we soon once more were sailin up the Potomack.
Derned ef Jabez ain't a comin long with the res' on us.
If one on ye had a tole me las' Friday night, what was a comin raound inside of a week, I should a said he wuz stark starin mad.
Theres been an awful lot of talk in the papers an magazines about how were comin home changed men.
We walked thru the tunnel so far that I figgered that we must be comin out somewhere behind the German lines.
Nobody but me seemed to figger that we might be comin up in front of that machine gun insted of behind it.
There was a lot of doboys lyin down there an a lot of others comin up thru the fog, half runnin, half walkin an all of them stooped over like they was carryin something heavy.
Half the fellos in the battery is comin thru in places the General couldnt see because he was mounted.
I hear the battery comin back so I guess Ill quit this and fall in on the tail of the colyum.
As soon as you blow out the light an lie still, tho, you can hear them comin out all over to have dinner off your equipment.
Everybody knew the General wasnt comin over to hang no wreaths around nobodies neck.
I never thought when I sat here in the mud last May an rote you how Id escaped from the pearls of the sea, as the poets say, that Id ever sit here agen an rite you that I was comin home.
At the same time I feel kind of sad like you do when your comin back to work from your summer vacashun.
Its fixed so that it gets you in the chin goin down an on the top of the head comin up.
Just then I saw the Top comin but it was to late to go anywhere.
Angus says theres some Dutch oficers comin thru here in an automobile to see General Fosh about an armistice.
He wanted to know what the this an that we meant by comin in without knockin.
If Miss Montgomery say she comin here to take more pictures, tell her I ain' gwine take no more.
Cose I can' see so good, but I can hear de people voice en tell who dere time I hear dem comin up dat path.
I remember, I left out de house en been out in de 'tatoe patch grabblin 'tatoes right along en when I raise up, dat thing was comin down dat 'tatoe row just a whirlin en a makin right for me.
Mr. Jervey ax John Evans what de matter dat I ain' been comin to de store to get my rations en John Evans tell him I been under de weather.
Well, I used to know a heap of dem songs dat I hear my auntie en my grandmammy sing dere home when I was comin up.
Know it cause I didn' never have no worryations no time when I was comin up.
When I see her turn out dat piazza, I know she comin here.
I hear de lumberation comin or dat what I calls it en it come long en hit de side of de house so hard dat all de dishes was just a rattlin.
Honey, my child en her daughter comin from de northern states dis Christmas to see me.
De stage coach day war big days, wen de stage coach war a comin thru why us little niggers would try ter keep up wid de horses en run erlong side de coach en sometimes a man or woman would drop us a penny den dar was sho a scramble.
When I fust seen em comin I got scared an started to run but de white man said, "stop, boy, we is not gwine a hurt you.
But they welcomed him with their usual cordiality, nor was it many minutes before mistress Comin made him acquainted with the cause of their anxiety.
Still, my son, it may comfort ye a wee i' the time to come, to think the auld cobbler Anerew Comin gaed intil the new warl' fitter company for the help ye gied him afore he gaed.
I saw a comin back the good old times when thirty-four States met in convenshun, and let eleven rule em; and ez I contemplated the scene, I too wept, but it wuz in dead earnest.
I received at this pint only 130 petitions for the post office, wich I took ez a bad omen for the comin election.
But I hear they arecomin hame again this back end.
One of the house slaves was allus havin her man comin to see her, so one day affer he lef, when I was makin fun and laughin at her de mistress she say, 'Why you picken on her?
When de Yankees were a comin through dem fiels, dey sho was awful.
She sold to de master who was de highes bidder, and den I saw her comin down de road singin 'I done got a home at las!
I say, dat man cominhere all the time hangin round, why doan he marry her.
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