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I have two cards, my mother's an' mine, an' I draw 'em out all the time, after school, before I have to carry my papers. I stick the books inside my shirt, in front, under the suspenders. That holds 'em. One time, deliverin' papers at Second an' Market there's an awful tough gang of kids hang out there I got into a fight with the leader.
What I say I'll do, I'll do! And I'm deliverin' it, ain't I? Hey? Ain't I? Well, then, what the " And so forth and at length, while Mrs. Calvin collapsed half fainting in an easy-chair, and horrified Welfare Workers covered their ears and longed to cover their noses. The lumber was delivered that day. Its delivery was, from the viewpoint of Messrs. Young and Mullen, a success.
There had been the usual meeting, and Ada Grosvenor and others had called in to discuss it. "Why, didn't the police deliver yours?" inquired Miss Grosvenor. "No, we was missed somehow." "Easy to see Danby wasn't on the racket of deliverin' electors' rights, or you would have had two or three apiece," Andrew chipped in. "I'm going for Walker straight," announced grandma.
I'm going down that way, too. You see, my Congressman helped me get a contract for furnishing the Army o' the Cumberland with bridge timber, and I'm going down to Looeyville, and mebbe further, to see about it. We've just come from St. Louis, where I've bin deliverin' some timber in rafts." "Where are you from? "Bad Ax, Wisconsin, a little ways from La Crosse."
You for sendin' a fool on a message, or me for deliverin' it." "Was that all that happened?" "No, sir. He said," added the fool, with bitter sarcasm, alluding to a duel, in which the Squire's character had not come off with flying colors "he said, sir, that whin you have another challenge to fight, you may get sick agin for threepence to the poticarry."
I guess afore long I'll git up a temperance lectur and go round deliverin' of it." "O, pshaw, you wouldn't git no ordiance. Would he Fanny?" said Sorrel Top, appealing to Fanny Green, who had been a silent but not uninterested listener to the conversation. "I guess he would," said Fanny, hopefully, "I would attend." "Of course you would," said Daddy, excitedly, "and the Honey would too."
He summed the whole thing up as calm, an' bent over with his pencil in his hand, an' peepin' above his specs, just like he was deliverin' a charge to a jury in a murder case. It was for Het to weigh the evidence pro and con, an' consider, an' deliberate, an' make her final choice betwixt the two claimants she had got tangled up with.
I promised Fanny fur tu tend tu that are matter when I got my lectur done, but I hed fur to tend tu gittin married fust." "Your what done, Philip?" "My lectur, I writ one on temperance when I was sick. I calculate fur tu go round deliverin of it next winter when we git settled. 'Tween you and me, I may clare a little money on it. Lecturers are apt tu, I've heern say."
They're known all over the country as the Bowery leaders and, as there's nothin' but saloons on the Bowery, people might think that they are hard drinkers. The fact is that neither of them has ever touched a drop of liquor in his life of even smoked a cigar. Still they don't make no pretenses of being better than anybody else, and don't go around deliverin' temperance lectures.
"I come to see you," he told Crane, "because it seemed like you got to feed your lumberjacks, and I want to git the contract for furnishin' and deliverin' the provisions." "We've sure got to feed 'em," said Crane. "But five hundred men eat a lot of grub. Can you swing it if we give you a chance at it?"
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