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You're all th' same I 've seen fellows with flivvers loaded down till th' springs was flat, look up at them hills an' figure t' get over an' back in time for supper. So go on only jis' remember this: once you get outside of Dominion an' start up th' grade, there ain't no way stations, an' there ain't no telephones, ner diner service, ner somebody t' bring y' th' evenin' paper.
"Ayes, I thought mebbe you'd like 'em if you was hungry some time between meals. Wait a minute." She went to her room and Uncle Peabody and I waited before we shut the hasp with a wooden peg driven into its staple. "There," said she, "you might as well have it ayes! you're old enough now. You'll enjoy readin' it sometimes in the evenin', mebbe ayes!
Somebody must have axes for sale 'round here somewhere." He waited awhile for the borrower to return the tool, but as he did not, he gathered up a load of wood and carried it up to the cabin. "The boys'l be mighty hungry when they git back this evenin'," said he to himself. "I'll jest git up a good supper for 'em.
They let me stake a claim, but nobody offers to lend me a pick or a shovel, an' nobody ever comes to the shanty to spend the evenin', 'less it's a greenhorn. Curse 'em all! I'll make some of 'em bleed fur it. I'll git their dust, an' go back East; ther's plenty of folks thar that'll be glad to see me, ef I've got the dust.
"Well, that afternoon I went down an' hunted up a rusty sleigh-bell I'd seen in the basement, an' I rubbed it up an' tied a string to it, an' 'long in the evenin' I went upstairs an' rapped at Mr. Loneway's door. "'I called, I says, 'to ask after your wife, if I might. "'If you might, he says after me. 'I thank the Lord you're somebody that will. Come in, he told me. "They had two rooms.
Nothing high-school girly about Lucy Lee when she floats down the stairs at 7:15. It's a grown-up evenin' gown she's wearin' this time. No doubt then whether or not she'd had her comin' out. The only question was where she was going to stop comin' out. Not that it wasn't simple enough, but it sure was skimpy above the belt. After his first gasp you could see Peyton sittin' up and takin' notice.
But now an' then like a holiday when we're dressed up an' sittin' 'round I feel differ'nt an' special. It was the way I felt when they give the William Shakespeare supper in the library an' had it lit up in the evenin' so differ'nt like bein' somewheres else. It'll be that way on Market Square next month when the Carnival comes.
I danced with a gal with a hole in her stockin'; And her heel it kep' a-rockin' kep' a-rockin'! She was the purtiest gal in the room! Jeff pulled the front door wide open. The song stopped and Judge Priest stood in the opening, teetering a little on his heels. His face was all a blushing pinky glow. "Evenin', jedge!" greeted Jeff. "You're late, suh!"
It's in Nick's methods ter wear a black face-mask an' leave his victim helplessly gagged. I allow as Jim Thurston declares he met Nick at Three Crossings Sunday evenin'; but Jim's a pard of Nick's, an' his unsupported word ain't worth a whole lot, anyway." Rube Carter leant forward. He was deeply interested in this case of burglary with violence.
If any soft zephyr's breath wuz wafted to any one of us from a open winder on a hot evenin' or sunny noon, he wuz the one she wanted wafted to, and breathed on. If her smiles fell warm on any, or all on us, he wuz the one they fell warmest on. But we all liked him the best that ever wuz.
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