1 This one's a middling hard lot for a duke.
2 I took up the river road as hard as I could put.
3 When he got along I was hard at it taking up a "trot" line.
4 Say, I reckon your father's poor, and I'm bound to say he's in pretty hard luck.
5 She worked me middling hard for about an hour, and then the widow made her ease up.
6 Providence had stood by me this fur all right, but I was hard and tight aground now.
7 Jim was monstrous proud about it, and he got so he wouldn't hardly notice the other niggers.
8 I reckoned I couldn't stand it more'n a minute longer, but I set my teeth hard and got ready to try.
9 Then I jumped in the canoe and dug out for our place, a mile and a half below, as hard as I could go.
10 So the duke said it was kind of hard to have to lay roped all day, and he'd cipher out some way to get around it.
11 Every now and then I stopped a second amongst the thick leaves and listened, but my breath come so hard I couldn't hear nothing else.
12 I don't wish to be too hard on these two men, but I think they're frauds, and they may have complices that we don't know nothing about.
13 I got to tell the truth, and you want to brace up, Miss Mary, because it's a bad kind, and going to be hard to take, but there ain't no help for it.
14 WELL, all day him and the king was hard at it, rigging up a stage and a curtain and a row of candles for footlights; and that night the house was jam full of men in no time.
15 The whoops was warnings that would come to us every now and then, and if we didn't try hard to make out to understand them they'd just take us into bad luck, 'stead of keeping us out of it.'
16 Well, the woman fell to talking about how hard times was, and how poor they had to live, and how the rats was as free as if they owned the place, and so forth and so on, and then I got easy again.
17 So there I had to stick plumb until daylight this morning; and I never see a nigger that was a better nuss or faithfuller, and yet he was risking his freedom to do it, and was all tired out, too, and I see plain enough he'd been worked main hard lately.
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