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"'Tis my powerful belief in the Lord," chuckled the elder, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand and placing the glass on the end of the bench. "No, no, Reuben, when it comes to that I ain't any quarrel with folks for lookin' al'ays at the pleasant side, but what staggers me is why they should take it as a merit to themselves when 'tis nothin' less than a weakness of natur.
I'd forgot all about 'em." Uncle William nodded. "There was a kind of tart she used to make " Andy broke in. A look of genuine enthusiasm filled his eye. "I know that gingery, pumpkin kind " "That's it. And you and me and Benjy used to sit and toast our toes by the fire and eat it " "He was a mean cuss," said Andy. "Who Benjy? Why, we was al'ays fond of Benjy!"
"Oh, Ezra!" said Lucy Ann, quite sincerely, with her concession to his lower fortunes, "why didn't you say so! John's asked me.". "The dogs!" said Ezra. It was his deepest oath. Then he drew a sigh. "Well," he concluded, "that's our luck. We al'ays come out the leetle end o' the horn. Abby'll be real put out. She 'lotted on it. Well, John's inside there. He's buyin' up 'bout everything there is.
"Do you mean to say you wouldn't stop folks fighting if you could?" Uncle William eyed the proposition. "Well I dunno's I'd say jest that. I've thought about it a good many times. Men al'ays hev fit and I reckon they will quite a spell yet. There's Russia and Japan now: you couldn't 'a' stopped them fightin' no more'n two boys that had got at it.
Her giggle was ugly and disagreeable like everything else about her everything except a certain odd, loving, loyal old heart buried deep in her bosom, for the sake of which Roger endured the giggle and all the rest. "Dessay he did dessay he did. Men al'ays has a hankerin' for good looks. But ye've got to cut yer coat 'cording to yer cloth.
There was a pleased light in her eyes, but he saw that she was striving in vain to grasp the full significance of his words. "Well, well," she said at last. "I al'ays told Amos you wa'nt no fool but who'd have thought it!"
Poor Ad'line always give me a feelin' as if I was a hen that has hatched ducks. I never knew exactly how to do for her, she seemed to see everything so different, and Lord only knows how I worry about her; and al'ays did, thinkin' if I'd seen clearer how to do my duty her life might have come out sort of better.
"No," said Hale, "not this time." "Well, git down and rest a spell. June'll be here in a minute an' you can ride back with her. I reckon you air goin' that a-way." "June!" "Shore! My, but she'll be glad to see ye! She's always talkin' about ye. You told her you was comin' back an' ever'body told her you wasn't: but that leetle gal al'ays said she KNOWED you was, because you SAID you was.
"There!" said Captain Sands, "folks may say what they have a mind to; I didn't see that shower coming up, and I know as well as I want to that my wife did, and impressed it on my mind. Our house sets high, and she watches the sky and is al'ays a worrying when I go out fishing for fear something's going to happen to me, specially sence I've got to be along in years."
I did rub my eyes and think I must be dreamin', but there he were layin' down, quite at home. He al'ays had a trick of openin' gates, ye know, and he must jist ha' walked away i' th' night. He wur awful tired, pore beast 'twas so much as I could do to get en off again." "Ye sent en off again!" cried Mrs. Bold indignantly. "Well, I shouldn't ha' thought ye could have found it in yer heart!
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