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"I did, if you want to know," Grandmother snorted. "This is my house, ain't it?" "I've heard tell that it was," Matilda answered, "and I'm beginnin' to believe it." Miss Matilda was forty-six, but, in the pitiless glare of the odorous lamp, she looked much older.
"I have heard there ain't no way over the mountains atween that pass by Fremont's Buttes and the pass by this peak, which they calls Union Peak, and the red-skins must travel by this when they go down to hunt buffalo on the Green River. It is a wonder Harry struck on it." "Leaping Horse told him to keep his eyes open," the chief said from the rear. "He knew that Indian trail led up this valley."
"It was a mercy I'd washed him first," added Nellie, not comprehending the reason of her husband's sudden show of interest though gratified by it. "Lord, I thought you meant the doctor had took off his shirt!" said Joe. "He's all right now, ain't he?"
All I meant that if you give me such a high-price present when I get married, that's all the more reason why we should give a high-price present to a customer what we will make money on. I ain't no customer, Abe." "I know you ain't," said Abe. "You're only a partner, and I don't make no money on you, neither." Morris shrugged his shoulders.
He ain't one of the patient ones, like some other folks; and there's fifty pounds put on. I don't see my way to it. I'd rather it was just the clear hundred, if it was the same to you." "It is not the same to me," said Mr. May, calmly. "Come, there is no cause to make any fuss. There it is, and if you don't like to make use of it, you must find some better way.
"I live with my son and his wife. They wouldn't have it any other way." "Hm. Like to be independent myself." "Lonesome, ain't it? Over there?" "Lonesome! Say, Mr. what'd you say your name was? Minick? Mine's Hughes I never was lonesome in my life 'cept for six months when I lived with my daughter and her husband and their five children. Yes, sir.
Ain't you got nothing to do but fold your arms and stand a Poll Parroting all night? 'Let her alone, urged the man. 'She was only speaking to me. 'Let her alone too! retorted Mr Riderhood, eyeing him all over. 'Do you know she's my daughter? 'Yes. 'And don't you know that I won't have no Poll Parroting on the part of my daughter? No, nor yet that I won't take no Poll Parroting from no man?
He laughed, and taking up a pebble dropped it sharply among the goldfish. "Alack!" said Marcella, caressing her child's head as he stood playing beside her. "Hallin, I can't have you kiss my hand like that. Sir George says it's poverty of mind." "It ain't," said Hallin, promptly.
"I feel to enjoy it, anything that I can do my own way so," responded Peggy. "I like to do my part. Ain't that old Mis' Fales comin' up the road? It sounds like her step." The others looked, but they were not far-sighted, and for a moment Peggy had the advantage. Mrs. Fales was not a favorite. "I hope she ain't comin' here to put up this spring.
"It ain't me, Moses, it's me friend wants a sporty fit-out an' discount for spot cash, see? Show us your half-dollar shirts for a starter an' sporty ones, mind!"
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