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Tell your folks I expect and want 'em to keep right on tradin' with me." When Alice appealed to Mr. Mears she also met only the kindest of words. "Ye can drive back an' forth, an' not be away from home over night," said he, "till snow comes, an' then I'll git ye a boardin'-place clus by the schoolhouse and fetch and carry ye Mondays and Fridays."
He wanted, too, that I should go on ter New York an' get Jimmy's things; an' after I had opened the letter I said right off that I'd go. I was mad over that letter. It was a bill fer a suit of clothes, an' it asked him purty sharplike ter pay it. "I had some trouble in New York findin' Jimmy's boardin'-place.
Such a girl exerts a great influence in her school and mountain home. An enthusiastic mountaineer described an example in this wise: 'I tell yeou hit teks a moughty resolute gal ter do what that thar gal has done. She got, I reckon, about the toughest deestric' in the ceounty, which is sayin' a good deal. An' then fer boardin'-place well, there warn't much choice.
One evening he exclaimed to Haldane, "I say, young man, you had better pull out o' here." "What do you mean?" "I'll give you a receipt in full and a good character, and then you look for a healthier boardin'-place." "Ah, I see! You wish to be rid of me?" "No, you don't see, nuther. I wish you to be rid of me." "Of course, if you wish me to go, I'll go at once," said Haldane, in a despondent tone.
"I've got a boardin'-place for you, John," he declared. "The office I may not be so sartin about, but the boardin'-place I am. There ain't a better one this side of Boston and I know it. And the woman who keeps it is well, you take my word for it she's all RIGHT." His passenger regarded him curiously. "You seem very enthusiastic, Captain," he observed, with a smile.
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