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"Evangeline Flagg, aren't you ashamed! When he is the dearest, cunningest " "Not not cunnin'est. But he's got beautiful whiskers. I mean if he didn't shave 'em off. When he came, he had 'em on. You can't love his whiskers when you never saw " Miss Theodosia held up a limp hand to stem this terrible tide of words. "Oh, stop! wait, Evangeline!" she begged. "Who are you talking about?"
Well, along about two years or, say, eighteen months or so after Cyrus come to us a little girl baby come to Bill an' Marthy, an' of all the cunnin' sweet little things you ever seen that little girl baby was the cunnin'est an' sweetest!
"Well, they make a real graven image of that ar child," said Mrs. Kittridge, "and fairly bow down to her and worship her." "Well, it's natural," said Miss Roxy. "Besides, the little thing is cunnin'; she's about the cunnin'est little crittur that I ever saw, and has such enticin' ways."
An', say! I'm yere to express my regrets at them weaknesses. If I was a eddicated gent like Doc Peets is, you can put down all you has, I'd be the cunnin'est wolf that ever yelps in Cochise County. "'An' thar ain't no doubt of that, Boggs, observes Enright, as he reorganizes to go ahead with them Donna Anna mem'ries of his.
Got kind o' skeered an' skittish when we sot down together, an' come to think it all over, 'twouldn't 'a' been right. "'You're wrong, Solomon, I answered. 'You ought to have a home of your own and a wife to make you fond of it. How is the Little Cricket? "'Cunnin'est little shaver that ever lived, said he. 'I got him a teeny waggin an' drawed him down to the big medder an' back.
She was 'bout seven or eight years old, and the cunnin'est young un ye ever see. Jus' the same eyes she's got now, only they looked bigger, 'cause her cheeks was caved in." "Not Ruby, Jim!" I cried, in astonishment. "Yes, Ruby. That's what was on the tag." "And she isn't Marvin's child?" "No more'n she's yourn, nor mine. She ain't nobody's child that anybody knows about.
I don't say that they bear me special malice on account of any expl'ites already performed, for that would be bragging, as it might be, on the varge of the grave, but it's no vanity to believe that they know one of their bravest and cunnin'est chiefs fell by my hands.
"'Well, retorts Dave, 'I won't dispoote with you; an' even at that I regyards your present attitoode as one of bluff. I thinks you're shore the cunnin'est wolf in the territory, Dan, an' allers is. But, as I'm sayin', when I first begins to infest Tucson, I'm so ignorant it's a stain on that meetropolis. At this yere epock, Tucson ain't spraddled to its present proud dimensions.
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