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"What's the idea?" I asks. Then I gets the whole bill of complaint. It seems Buddy has started the day by breakin' loose from his wire and chasin' the chickens all over the place. He'd cornered our pet Rhode Island Red rooster and nipped out a mouthful of tail feathers. It took the whole household and some of the neighbors to get him to quit that little game.
When the bank on Broadway was broke into there was the same kind of notice in the papers, for I saw it with my own eyes." "But I haven't been breakin' into any bank!" Seth wailed, hugging Snip yet more tightly to his bosom. "Then what's that advertisement there for?" and Master Smith looked upon his acquaintance with an air of judicial severity. "How do I know?"
"It's hard enough to leave him widout him comin' afther me and breakin' me heart all over again." "That's what it is, Pearl," the doctor said, smiling. "I think it is mighty thoughtless of Danny the way he is acting." Danny held obstinately to Pearl's skirt, and cried harder than ever. He would not even listen when the doctor spoke of taking him for a drive.
Come, sez she, 'I'm breakin' up like brother; I shan't wurry any one a gret while, and 'fore spring I dessay you'll hev cause tew rejice that yeou done as Aunt Si counselled yeou. "Now, that idee kinder took me, seein' I hedn't no overpaourin' love fer cousin; but I brewdid over it a spell 'fore I 'greed.
Reist said to Uncle Amos one day, "there's another little house for sale in that street. If it wasn't for breakin' up the home for you and Millie I'd buy it and Philip and I could move in there. It would be nice and handy for him. I'm gettin' tired of such a big house. There I could do the work myself. There'd be room for you to come with us, but I wouldn't need Millie.
What would life be without it she wondered. No affectations, no barriers, no pretenses "Flout me not, Sweet!" said some one at her side. She looked up into the beaming eyes of Wallace Bannister. "Don't you remember me I'm the city feller that came here breakin' all hearts awhile back!" "You idiot!" Martie laughed, too. "I thought you were miles away!"
Jimmy, avourneen machree, an' how can I part wid you, my darlin' son! Sure, when I look at your mild face, and think that you're takin' the world on your head to rise us out of our poverty, isn't my heart breakin'! A lonely house we'll have afther you, acushla! Goin' out and comin' in, at home or abroad, your voice won't be in my ears, nor your eye smilin' upon me.
Guess he's goin' to have ye arrested right off." "Have me arrested!" Douglas exclaimed in surprise. "Why, what for?" "Fer waylayin' Billy Keezer an' Tom Oakes last night, an' breakin' their heads with a stick. They're all used up, an' Tom swears that you stole his coat." Douglas leaned back in his chair and laughed so heartily that Jake and his wife looked at him in astonishment.
"Good mornin', gintlemen," he said, "I am glad to see the honest name cleared and set right, as it ought to be; but as for myself, I lave you wid a heavy wid a breakin' heart." As he disappeared at the door, Hycy rushed after him, exclaiming, "Father, listen to me don't go yet till you hear my defence. I will go and fetch him back," he exclaimed "he must hear what I have to say for myself."
"It's a kind of talent a gift, you might say like breakin' horses or tamin' wild animals," he was wont to reply modestly when questioned by those who followed his example and failed lamentably. "You got to be kind and gentle with dudes, yet firm with them. Onct they git the upper hand of you they's no livin' with 'em." Five years had brought their changes to Teeters as well as to Prouty.
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