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`` Land o ' liberty ! perhaps I ai n't het-up ! '' she ejaculated , as she wiped the sweat of honest toil from her brow and fanned herself vigorously with her apron . `` I tell you what , at five o'clock I was dreadful sorry I had n't took Dave Milliken , but now I 'm plaguey glad I did n't ! Still '' -LRB- and here she tried to smooth the green bird 's ruffled plumage and restore him to his perch under the revered glass case -RRB- , `` still , children will be children . '' `` Some of 'em 's considerable more like wild cats , '' said Miss Avilda briefly . `` You just go upstairs now , and see if you find anything that looks like wild cats ; but ' t any rate , wild cats or tame cats , we would n't dass turn 'em ou ` doors this time o ' night for fear of flyin ' in the face of Providence .