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These things is chalked all right for Littleton. Must ha' been a mistake with the checks, and somebody changed their minds on the way, Plymouth, most likely, and stopped with the wrong baggage. Wouldn't worry, ma'am; it's as bad for one as for t' other, anyhow, and they'll be along to-morrow, no kind o' doubt. Strays allers turns up on this here road. No danger about that.
Growther as Haldane came in that evening with face aglow with gladness and excitement. "According to your theory I've been promoted sure," laughed the youth, and he related the unexpected event of the day. "That's jest like Mrs. Arnot," said Mr. Growther, rubbing his hands as he ever did when pleased; "she's allers givin' some poor critter a boost.
"'Course I been in jail more'n fifty times, an' mebbe I'll git in fifty times more, but that don't do a man no harm as I knows of. I'd allers leave a little money home for my fambly." He threw his bold, black eyes upon the little figure in the bed, and the girl dropped her lids. "How about it, Tessie?" he wheedled in low tones. Tess wriggled. She didn't know just what answer to give.
Swan. 'No? says I. 'No, said he, 'but you and I air that high among the competitors that if we didn't try against one another we could allers hev it our own way. Now, if you'll not show your piccatees this time, I'll promise you not to bring forrard so much as one pelagonium." "The cheat!" exclaimed Johnnie. "Why we have none worth mentioning, and the piccatees are splendid, Swanny."
"Why, father! Yellow Pine! You here? I never expected to see you." "Well, my son," said the judge, "we thought we'd come over and see what luck you were having. Where's Two Arrows?" "We watched ye jest a moment," said Pine. "Allers take sight from a rest if you can get one. You did that thing fine. There's the making of a prime good shot in ye."
Jest as I turns my back, thar's the crack! of a rifle to the r'ar of the j'int, an' Hardrobe pitches onto the floor as dead as ever transpires in that tribe. In the back door, with one arm in a sling, an' a gun that still smokes, ca'm an' onmoved like Injuns allers is, stands Bloojacket. "'My hand is forced, he says, as he passes me his gun; 'it's him or me!
"Them Purcels allers was pretty peppery, and I guess they're more'n ever so now," said Rhoda. "Why?" asked Marge. "Why? Because they used to be the richest farmers about here. They owned pretty nigh all Lime Ridge once. Now they hain't got nothin' but that little Ridge farm. It's a stony little place, and how they manage to get a livin' off of it beats me." "How'd they happen to lose so much?"
But my belief is that the article slipped from the pocket and is lost." "It must be found then" she persisted obstinately. John went home to ponder over his hopeless task. It remained for Amarilly with her optimistic spirit to cheer him. "It'll turn up some place whar you never looked fer it and when you ain't thinkin' nuthin' about it," she asserted believingly. "Lost things allers do."
No 'sputin' it, sho, for de Laud allers tells me 'bout dese matters; and you can ax Marfa if it is not so when you go home.
"There's Pip Smith, an' what do you s'pose he's got in his ear now?" Tim said speculatively; but with little apparent interest in the subject. "He's allers botherin' his head 'bout somethin' that ain't any of his business. He allows he'll be a detective when he gets big enough."
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