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"He wasn't there yesterday," said Nance. "Uncle Jed seen him with another boy, goin' out the railroad track." "I know it. He played hookey. He wrote a excuse an' signed his maw's name to it. Ike seen him do it. An' when the principal called up his maw this mornin' an' ast her 'bout it, she up an' said she wrote it herself."
I 'lows he wus a dandy at the bizness end o' a gun, an' I walked lame fer a month after. But ther' was a onattached widdy in that town when we'd done." "You killed him?" Tresler asked. "Wal, I didn't wait to ast no details. Guess I got busy fergittin' religion right off.
Mars Sid, I FELT um I FELT um, sah; dey was all over me. Dad fetch it, I jis' wisht I could git my han's on one er dem witches jis' wunst on'y jis' wunst it's all I'd ast. But mos'ly I wisht dey'd lemme 'lone, I does." Tom says: "Well, I tell you what I think. What makes them come here just at this runaway nigger's breakfast-time? It's because they're hungry; that's the reason.
Set your alarum-clock so that twice in the night you may be roused. Gird then yourself and patrol. But lightly slumber. Should my bell sound in your room spring instantly to my bedside. To your couch." Battling speech, Mr. Fletcher moved to the door. At the threshold protest overcame him. He gave it vent: "I should like to ast if I was engaged to work by night as well as day?
I ast him, still not understanding. "That's what I don't know. For some man that will make Bonnie Bell happy. But all the young men in a city talk alike and look alike and dress alike. I ain't seen more than one or two that was worth a cuss not a one I thought was good enough for my girl. And yet it stands to reason that something will happen; and it might be any time. It makes me uneasy."
"I'm sure," replied this daughter of Eve, who wished to use the doctor in her plans for Tillie, "I should have been highly honored." The rueful, injured look on the doctor's face cleared to flattered complacency. "Well," he said, "I'd like wery well to do what you ast off of me fur little Tillie Getz. But, Teacher, what can a body do against a feller like Jake Getz?
Then I seen word had got out somehow like enough from our Annette or their Emmy, and these was maybe newspaper reporters come up to see about it. "I haven't heard of any elopement," says I. "I was just calling our butler down for flirting some with one of their hired girls over there." "May we talk to your butler?" ast one of them.
It ain't needful for us to make no more money we're plumb rich enough for anybody on earth. Besides, when a man is a cowman he's got as far as he can go there ain't nothing in the world better than that. You know it and so do I." He nods, for what I said was true, and he knowed it. "Colonel," I ast him, "have you been playing poker?" "Some," says he. "Down to the Cheyenne Club."
Have you any knowledge of Greek?" "Certainly Greek is moch study in Charmany." 'In for a penny, in for a pound, I thought. "And the modern languages do you understand any of them?" "I speaks de five great tongues of Europe, more ast less well; and I read dem all, easily." "The five tongues!" said the clergyman, counting on his fingers; "what can they be, Mary?"
"You might have known I couldn't take Tommy to the show with one blue leg and one brown one. What must I do?" Miss Hazy sat dejectedly in the corner, wiping her eyes on her apron. "You might go ast Mis' Wiggs," she suggested as a forlorn hope. When Mrs. Wiggs was told the trouble she smiled reassuringly.
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