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Jody
what does "running tight"here mean?
the doe and I seed the fawn."
"What was you and your daddy doin' up this road?"
Jody hesitated.
"We was huntin' our hogs."
"Oh—Huntin' your hogs, eh? Well, don't fret about them hogs. I jest got a idee they'll be home by sundown."
"Ma and Pa'll shore be proud to see 'em come in."
"I had no idee, you-all was runnin' so tight."
"We ain't runnin' tight. We're all right."
"You Baxters has got guts, I'll say that."
"You reckon Pa'll not die?"
"Not him. His chitlin's is made o' iron."
Jody said, "Tell me about Fodder-wing. Is he shore enough ailin? Or didn't Lem want I should see him?"
"He's purely ailin'. He ain't like the rest of us. He ain't like nobody. Seems like he drinks air 'stead o' water, and feeds on what the wild creeturs feeds on, 'stead o' bacon."
2015년 2월 17일 오전 5:08
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Difficult to answer without a little more context, but typically, we say that something is "running so tight" when it is operating at a minimum level of resources (such as money, time, supplies, schedules, budgets...). Here it could be that the Baxters are running out of money
2015년 2월 17일
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