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Arizona don't put on dog; but she has her se'f-respectin' ways, an' stands a pat hand on towerists. "If I was called on to lay out a system to guide a tenderfoot who is considerin' on makin' Arizona his home-camp, I'd advise him to make his deboo in that territory in a sperit of ca'm an' silent se'f- reliance. Sech a gent might reside in Wolfville, say three months.
Oh! he'd kick over the table in a second if he even smells the play. "Now yere's where Providence makes its deboo. It happens while these charities is proceedin', a avaricious gent a stranger within our gates, he is after regyardin' the game awhile, takes to deemin' it easy.
"Land, o' course we'll all go," Mis' Amanda Toplady comfortably settled it, "an' take Emerel a deboo present, civilized. The dear child." And to that many of us gladly assented, Timothy, big Amanda's little husband, going so far as to add: "I do vum, the Sykeses feels the post-office like it was that much oats." A day later Timothy's opinion seemed, he thought, to be verified.
An' the only thing I could think of for Mis' Ricker well, would you stand up with Mis' Ricker to-night an' shake all their hands? An' sort o' leave her deboo for you, you might say?" I think that I loved Calliope for this even before she understood my assent. But she added something which puzzled me. "If I was you," she observed, "I'd do somethin' else to-night, too.
It tharfore befalls that when I makes my deboo among 'em, them canines, blinded an' besotted as I say with thoughts of coon, prounces upon me in a body. Every dog rends off a speciment of me. They don't bite twice; they perceives by the taste that it ain't no coon an' desists.
"I says to her: 'Look here, Mis' Ricker, don't you go givin' in. Your kitchen's a sight with the good things o' your hand think o' that, I told her; 'think how you mortgaged your very funeral for to-night, an' brace yourself up, An' she says, awful pitiful: 'I can't, Calliope, she says. ''T seems like this slips the pins right out. They ain't nothin' to deboo with now, anyway, she told me.
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