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I heer'd her tell her paw, who was aroun' ag'in workin' after his busted laig got well, she'd give ten years o' her life for any ol' cheap pianner he could skeer up fer her. "'Wal, says he, 'how in tunket am I a-goin' ter git anything like that thirty miles off'n the road, an' nary way o' freightin' it up or down the cañon to this camp?
Ther' is lots of young men a hanging aroun' it, an' why 'cos it's made pleasant for 'em, an' it's the only place in town that is. I've been a faithful attendant at that tavern for nigh onto twenty year, an' I never knowed a hanger-on there that had a comfortable home of his own.
There's one o' them aroun' the corner, an' they say she told Minnie Doyle the name o' the man she was to marry. An' he married her, at that!" Mrs. Cregan looked blank. Mrs. Byrne leaned forward to her. "I never whispered it to a livin' soul but yerself but it was her told Mrs. Gunn that her last was to be a boy. A good month ahead!
"Does yo' hear anything yit?" "You think he can smell out an enemy, do you?" chuckled Jack. "He done gotter great head, Buttsy has," declared the black man. "If dere is anyt'ing prowlin' aroun' permiscuous like, he's de boy to hear 'em yes, sah!" "By the same token it was a flock of geese that saved Rome," Mark said. Wash had his back to the thick clump of firs. Jack was facing him.
Lathrop, 't after he'd spoke I jus' stood there plum-petrified 'n' stock-starin' f'r 's much 's a minute afore I c'd get voice to ask who give him the authority to teach me how to wash my own stockin's. 'N' then, when I did speak, I made no bones 's to sayin' jus' what I thought. I never was one to give my opinion o' anythin' or anybody aroun' free, but I certainly did feel to be open at Mr.
"Dey put chains on us an' put us on a stan' as high as dis po'ch twenty foot high an' all de people stood aroun', crowds 'an' crowds.
She decided that he was not accustomed to the society of ladies. "Brutes like that dog ain't no place in th' world that's my opinion. There are some bad things we can't help havin' aroun'; but a bull-dog ain't one of 'em." "I quite agree with you," Kate acquiesced, as she drank the water.
We can handle the lock all right but they got old fashioned bolts inside. So just wait aroun' an' figure how you'd git acrost the room without knockin' nothink over, an' look particular at the fastenings on that front door so you'll " "Stop right there," interrupted Glen. "I won't do anything of the kind." "What's the matter of you, backin' out thaterway?" exclaimed Mr. Jervice.
"'Twon't do no good," sighed Limping Jim. "He's lost his head, an' reason just goes into one ear and out at t'other. When he was scrapin' aroun' the front door t'other day, an' I asked him what he wuz a-layin' the ground all bare an' desolate for, he said he was done keepin' pig-pen. Now everybody but him knows he never had a pig. His head's gone, just mark my words."
The minister says he don't thank no man to talk race-suicide when he's aroun'; he says his blood runs cold to think what his family 'll be at his silver weddin'. I tell you, Mrs.
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