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"Colleges is well enough for your smooth, straight-grained lumber, for gen'ral buildin'; but come to fellers that's got knots, and streaks, and cross-grains, like Moses Pennel, and the best way is to let 'em eddicate 'emselves, as he's a-doin'. He's cut out for the sea, plain enough, and he'd better be up to Umbagog, cuttin' timber for his ship, than havin' rows with tutors, and blowin' the roof off the colleges, as one o' them 'ere kind o' fellers is apt to when he don't have work to use up his steam.
We had a fine farm, snug house, and good-sized barns, with kind neighbours a-plenty. By the time our two little uns were born we had laid by a neat sum of money. "'It's fer Danny an' Chrissie, to eddicate 'em, says Annie. An' oh, b'ys, I remember the last time she laid any away. I had come back from town, whar I had sold my load of produce, an' I handed her what money I had.
"She has a little money of her own; but I see that she and Letty have two-thirds of all I make." "That ain't a fair bargain if you do all the work." "Ah, but we don't make bargains, sir: we work for one another and share every thing together." "So like women!" grumbled Uncle Enos, longing to see that "the property was fixed up square." "How are you goin' to eddicate the little gal?
But Bill's proposal was scorned with contemptuous groans. "Twenty-eight a month and grub himself o' course ain't much for a man to save money out ov to eddicate himself." Bill continued, as if thinking aloud, "O' course he's got his mother at home, but she can't make much more than her own livin', but she might help him some." This was altogether too much for the crowd.
As for our end of the game, we moves out for Wolfville, makin' no idle delays whatever. "Goin' in, Dave, after thinkin' some, su'gests to me that it's likely to be a heap good story not to tell Tucson Jennie. "'Females is illogical, that a-way, says Dave, 'an' I ain't goin' to have time to eddicate Jennie to a proper view of this yere. So I reckons it's goin' to be a crafty play not to tell her.
I a'n't over-pertikeler about who I marry, but I can't go that." "What part do you object to?" "Well, ef I understand them words you've got kiled up there an' I'm purty middlin' smart at big words, you see I'm to eddicate the children in the Catholic faith, as you call it." "Yes, that is it." "Oui! vare good. Dat I must inseest on," said Perritaut.
"Every time I looks th' other way he ambles over and takes a bite at me. Yu just wait 'til this rustler business is roped, an' branded, an' yu'll see me eddicate that blessed scrapheap into eatin' grass again." He swiped Billy's shirt th' other day took it right off th' corral wall, where Billy's left it to dry. Then, seeing Buck raise his eyebrows, he explained: "Shore, he washed it again.
She lacked the means with which to suitably adorn herself and her children for the station in life to which she aspired and for which good clothes were the prime equipment and to "eddicate" Tony as he deserved.
"But you will come back?" queried Boca anxiously. "As sure as you're livin'! Only you want to kind o' eddicate your ole man to handle bottles more easy-like. He ought to know what they're made for." "Your head it is cool," said Boca, reaching up and touching Pete's forehead. "Oh, I'm feelin' fine, considerin'." "Then I am happy," said Boca.
Proceed to eddicate him. Preject him into next week. That is, if there was anything left." Shock opened his Bible and read, "'But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil; but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek turn to him the other also. That is what Jesus Christ says, Ike." "He does, eh? Does it mean just that?" Ike felt that this was a serious difficulty. "Yes, it means just that."
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