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Or I don't suppose there's anybuddy in the place 'd know more, if they'd a mind to talk, than Mrs. Wilmington; unless it was Mis' Docter Morrell." "Is Mr. Jack their son?" asked the reporter. "Land! Why she ain't a day older, if she's that. He's their nephew." "Oh, I see: second wife. Then he's the young man, heigh!" The hostess looked at the reporter with admiration. "Well, you do beat the witch.
Tommy breathed hard, then said rapidly: "Well, once over on the parkway two kids was playin', and a man came along drivin' a race horse, and it had got scared at a nautomobile, and was runnin' away, and the rein had broke, and the man he yelled, 'I'll give anybuddy a million dollars to stop this horse, and one of the kids 'bout my size give a leap and grabbed the horse by the nose and stopped him.
He saide we did, and I am so glad for I luv him the best in the wurld, him and God in Heaven. It was an orful excedent, and Margot says we were nerely orfans, and me and Nobbles dremes of it nerely every night, so Nobbles is a herro, wich True says is anybuddy who saves life, and I helped him to do it. Plese rite to me soon. Your luving little BOBBY.
Frank Woods two weeks ago last Thursday night?" I asked. The boy was trembling. He rolled frightened eyes toward Jackson who was glaring at him. Finally he broke into a wail. "Oh! Pappy Jackson, da's all Ah knows. He tell me he go to de bah an' ef'n anybuddy ask whah he go dat night to sen' em in dah." "Just tell me what you know, George!" I said, motioning the angry Jackson away.
But don't be alarmed, ma'am; when I take a fancy to anybuddy, as I have to you, ma'am, I don't never lie to 'em. Not that I s'pose you'd care, eh, ma'am?" Aunt Abby laughed. "You are a queer lad! Why, I'm not sure I'd care, if it didn't affect me in any way. I'm not responsible for your truthfulness though I don't mind advising you that you ought to be a truthful boy." "Land, ma'am!
They seemed to be flying straight into the blazing disk when Ernest, pointing to a wide plain far ahead, touched Bill and told him with a gesture to go down and land. Bill gave a short nod and prepared to obey. There flashed into his head a saying of Tom's, "Anybuddy can fly, but it's the landing that hurts."
"You know very well that they were carried away by that landslide," answered the senator's son. "We don't know nuthin' of the kind," came from Larry Jaley. "Your uncle claimed to have a mine up here, but I never seen no proof of it nor did anybuddy else see any proof. Any of us kin locate a claim, an' you can't stop us."
"She ain't none tew black, not to my thinkin," said Widow Bingham, looking up from her knitting as she sat behind the bar, the widow herself was a buxom brunette "but I never did see anybuddy kerry ther nose quite so high in all my born days. She don't pay no more 'tension to common folks 'n if they wuz dirt under her feet."
And with these animals crackers were served, and many merry jests were made as the children bit off the heads of ferocious wild beasts, or stabbed the ice cream animals with their spoons. As they left the table, each guest was invited to take one animal from the "farmyard," to carry away. Rosy Posy announced frankly, "Don't anybuddy take de Teddy Bear, 'cause me wants it."
Dicky tucked his head under his mother's arm, with a sigh of relief that there was one person, at least, whose sentiments were always favourable and always to be relied upon. 'I love you the best of anybuddy, mamma, whispered he, and fell asleep. 'The letter of a friend is a likeness passing true.
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