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"So you did 'em," observes Mr. Bangup. "Lord bless ye, yes! it warn't to no use aggravising about it, for says I, I von't stand it, so it warn't to no manner of use harnessing of him again for me." "Come, Smith, what are you chaffing there about?" inquires the landlord, coming out with the wide-spread way-bill in his hands, "have you two insides?"
I would buy a fast horse a two-forty mare and a bangup buggy, and I'd show the old farmers round here what fast driving is. Then I'd have a stylish house, and " "I don't believe you'd be content to live in Milford, Leonard." "I don't think I would, either, unless my business were here. I'd go to New York every few weeks and see life."
Bangup, the "varmint" man, the height of whose ambition is to be taken for a coachman.
Bangup, yes," replies his friend, "but I had some work first our gov'rnor was all for the change at last, says I to our 'osskeeper, says I, it arn't no use your harnessing that 'ere roan for me any more, for as how I von't drive him, so it's not to no use harnessing of him, for I von't be gammon'd out of my team not by none on them, therefore it arn't to never no use harnessing of him again for me."
But when, a few days later, the couple took the stage for Rum Valley, the enterprising Spidertracks took an outside passage, and at the end of the route had his persistency rewarded by seeing, in the Bangup House, a Sister of Charity tenderly embrace the major's fair charge, start at the sight of the major, and then, after some whispering by the happy mother, sullenly extend a hand, which the major grasped heartily, and over which there dropped something which, though a drop of water, was not a rain-drop.
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