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Hly2004 Posted 20 years ago
Vocabulary

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"I see you are," says Pa. He turned and looked at me. His eyes danced fire. "What in th' world has kept you so? Why ain't you been here to help me with this work? Make a gentleman out'n one boy in th' family and this is what you get! Send you to high school and you get too onery fer th' buzzards to smell!"

what are the meanings of "out'n" and " onery fer th' buzzards "
  

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"Pa, please don't go down there," I says, "just let me have fifty cents and pay the rest of my fine! I don't want you to go down there! I don't want you to start anything with Professor Herbert!

— Hly2004

  • "Pa, please don't go down there," I says, "just let me have fifty cents and pay the rest of my fine!
  • I don't want you to go down there!
  • I don't want you to start anything with Professor Herbert!
  • "Ashamed of your old Pap are you, Dave," says Pa, " atter th' way I've worked to raise you!
  • Tryin' to send you to school so you can make a better livin' than I've made.
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"Pa, please don't go down there," I says, "just let me have fifty cents and pay the rest of my fine! I don't want you to go down there! I don't want you to start anything with Professor Herbert!

"Ashamed of your old Pap are you, Dave," says Pa, "atter th' way I've worked to raise you! Tryin' to send you to school so you can make a better livin' than I've mad
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Hly2004"I see you are," says Pa. He turned and looked at me. His eyes danced fire. "What in th' world has kept you so? Why ain't you been here to help me with this work? Make a gentleman out'n one boy in th' family and this is what you get! Send you to high
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atter th' way = after the way
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