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"That's kind in yer, kid, amakin' us a present o' matches when we ain't got nary a one," remarked the spokesman of the pair, as he turned toward Max, and took a step that way. "Hold on, don't come any closer!" warned the boy, threateningly. "What's the matter with yer?" snarled the man, suddenly dropping the mask that he had been figuratively wearing while using soft words.
Ther blue, ther fresh, ther hever free, Ther blarsted, beastly, boundin' sea. Not even your distressin' face and dirty norticle apparile. Why do you arksk sich silly questchings?" "Willyerm Jones is amakin' a needle for 'im." "As 'ow?" "Wiv a fag-paper an' a thread o' yaller baccy.
Trotter, "though seems like somebody's been amakin' free with her layin' hens lately. They keep disappearin' right along. Sometimes I think it's a mink that's gettin' 'em, but they ain't any signs of sech a critter around; 'cause you know a mink'll kill as many as a dozen fowls in one night, and jest suck their blood." Elmer exchanged suggestive looks with his mates.
Others chose to continue standing, and had turned their faces towards the villagers with a look of melancholy compassion, which was highly amusing to Bessy Cranage, the blacksmith's buxom daughter, known to her neighbours as Chad's Bess, who wondered "why the folks war amakin' faces a that'ns."
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