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"Well, did Thorne explain why he let it go so long before making his claim?" "Oh, shore! He was right there when it come to explainin'. Seems he had some important war business on his hands an' wanted to get shed uh that before he took up ranchin'. Knowed it was in good hands, 'count uh Bloss bein' on the job, an' Stratton havin' promised to write frequent an' keep Joe toein' the mark.
I now and then feel so desperate and wicked, that I am afraid of myself." "Dere now, you'se worried and worn-out and you tinks dat's bein' wicked." "No. I'm satisfied it is something worse than that. I wonder if God does care about people who are in trouble, I mean practically, so as to help them any?" "Well, I specs he does," said Hannibal vaguely.
A pastrycook's shop. Boys looking in at the window. Bill. I say, Jim, ain't it a lot o' grub? If I wos a pig now, Jack. I likes to hear Bill a supposin' of hisself. Go it, Bill! There ain't nothink he can't suppose hisself, Jim. Bein' as you ain't a pig. Bill, you've got yer own trotters, an' yer own tater-trap. Bill.
"Wot a goose, wot a grampus you've bin, John Bumpus: firstly, for goin' to sea; secondly, for remainin' at sea; thirdly, for not forsakin' the sea; fourthly, for bein' worried about it at all, now that you've made up your mind to retire from the sea, and, fifthly "
"I always liked him personally very much. He ain't around here now any more lives up in Norwich, I think. He's a man of his word, though, as truthful as kin be. He ain't never done nothin' for me, I not bein' a takin' kind, but that's neither here nor there." He paused, in doubt apparently, as to what else to say. "You say he's so good," I said.
It comes on a Saturday; that ain't nigh so bad as bein' in the middle of the week." Nobody made any answer, and presently he went on, "There was a time along back when folks was too nigh the war-time to give much thought to the bigness of it. The best fellows was them that had stayed to home an' worked their trades an' laid up money; but I don't know's it's so now."
I should have looked him up, I suppose, before I fired Blenham. But, being made of flesh and blood " "I know, I know." And Royce filled his lungs with a big sigh. "Bein' a Packard, you didn't wait all year to get where you was goin'. But there'll be plenty of red tape that can't be cut through; that'll have to be all untangled an' untied.
"If Davie's askin' how the streets look, tell him I can't jest tell, for I come in the night, but the noise is amazin'." "Tell Davie I can see a church tower from the window, an' it's higher 'n' we ever dreamt of its bein', an' sweeter." "Tell Davie to lay listenin' to feet goin' up and down on stones is grand." "Tell Davie I hev seen the surgeon an' that I never thought a great man'd be so kind.
Why, I couldn't do 'nuff for him in tryn' to make him forget all the hard times he'd had. Then says she, 'You would twit the child with bein' weak, puny, and deformed, would you? I was now hobblin' up and down the room in a great state of excitement, and says I, 'Mrs.
The owld gintleman took it in, and at last said, bein' as I had the new gun, why he didn't know but what I might give it a trial. "Wal, that was all I wanted. I started to run over last night to tell ye, but afore I got to yer house I thought of this 'cute plan of s'prisin' ye.
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