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They cleared out three weeks ago, and nobody's heard a word of them since that is, nobody in the village." "Don't you know where they've gone?" asked Phil, in amazement. "No. I was goin' to ask you. I s'posed, of course, they'd write and let you know." "I didn't even know they had left Gresham." "Well, that's what I call cur'us. It ain't treatin' you right accordin' to my ideas."
At sixty cents a week the meals for one day will not cost over ten cents. I'll pay you ten cents for supper and breakfast." "You're a cur'us boy," said Tucker. "You want to pay for your vittles in a free boardin'-house." "It isn't free to me. At any rate, I don't want it to be. What do you say?" "Oh, I ain't no objections to take your money," said Tucker, laughing. "I didn't know you was so rich."
"Don't want to," said Andy, caustically. "No, you wouldn't take much comfort in 'em," said William. "'T is cur'us 't anybody should want a picter o' my old hut up there 'nough to pay how much d'ye s'pose they did pay for it, Andy?" Andy glanced at it contemptuously. It glowed in the light of the late sun, warm and radiant. "'T ain't wuth a hunderd," he said. Uncle William's face fell a little.
"I didn't know he was 'quainted with nobody." "Nobody 'ceptin' Homer Littlejohn an' Hetty Carpenter, an' they don't seem to know much about him. I call him darn cur'us. Hetty says he allus a-settin' in his room, a-studyin' an' a-studyin' an' a-studyin'." "He goes walkin' mornin's, Hetty told me." "Wal, he don't come downtown much. Nobody hardly ever sees him 'cept to church."
And her eyes began to twinkle, then she laughed. "A a little," admitted Rose. "It sounds like the cur'us noise at Great Hedge," added Russ. "Well, I didn't know you had a curious noise at your grandfather's place," went on Mrs. Thompson. "First I ever heard of it." "Oh, yes, there's a ghost there, only it isn't a ghost 'cause there's no such thing! Daddy said so!" exclaimed Rose. "But we got "
"It shows what the war has done," said the Panther. "I rode over these same prairies about a year ago an' game was scarce, but there were some men. Now the men are all gone an' the game has come back. Cur'us how quick buffalo an' deer an' antelope learn about these things." They slept the night through on the open prairie, keeping watch by turns.
Thought I wuz a-comin to the p'int, maybe. Well, nex' time'll do. Haw! haw! Young things is cur'us now, to be shore. Mout's well be a gittin' on, I reckon. Gin her time to come round, I 'low." With such wooing, renewed from time to time, the clumsy and complacent Dave whiled away his days, and comforted himself that he had the persimmon-tree all to himself, as he expressed it.
"I guess not. I'm pretty tough. I say, Mr. Kellogg," continued Joshua, with a grin, "you'd find it a harder job to give me a lickin' now than you did then." "I wouldn't undertake it now. I am afraid you could handle me." "It seems cur'us, don't it, Joe?" said Joshua. "When Mr. Kellogg used to haul me round the schoolroom, it didn't seem as if I could ever be a match for him."
"Well-a-well, we've all got to go, they ain't no getting around it. Man that is born of woman is of few days and far between, as Scriptur' says. Yes, you look at it any way you want to, it's awful solemn and cur'us: they ain't nobody can get around it; all's got to go just everybody, as you may say.
Sherd Raines goes up to see her, and folks say he air tryin' to git her into the church. But the gal won't go nigh a meetin'-house. She air a cur'us critter," he concluded emphatically, " shy as a deer till she air stirred up, and then she air a caution; mighty gentle sometimes, and ag'in stubborn as a mule." A shrill, infantile scream came from within, and the old man paused a moment to listen.