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She did not answer him but sat down quietly by her first cow, a fine-blooded animal which soon showed signs of restlessness under her tense hands. "There! There! So Bossy," soothed Rose gently. "You never will learn how to manage good stock," Martin criticized bitingly. "Nor you how to treat a wife." "Oh, shut up." "Don't talk to me that way."
Yet I have sometimes wondered if what we call mentally askew people are not those that possess attributes which society is not wise enough to help them use wisely mightn't such people be like fine-blooded animals who sniff land and water where no one else suspects any?
"I got my reasons for wantin' to keep this cat, and I'm goin' to keep it. YOU don't haf to ke " "Well, all right," Sam said shortly. "Anyways, it'll be dead if you don't hurry." "It won't, either," Penrod returned, kneeling and peering down upon the dark water. "Listen to him! He's growlin' and spittin' away like anything! It takes a mighty fine-blooded cat to be as fierce as that.
It must be at least a year old and rotten. Talk about limburger cheese! Whew!" She quickly tied the sack up again. "Well," said Lucile, "we probably won't want to use it for food, but white people as fine-blooded as we have been compelled to. It's better than starving. But I was thinking about a fire.
He crossed the alley hastily, and his Mammy stalked behind, using constant eloquence and a frequent lath. They went into the small house across the way and closed the door. Then Sam turned to Penrod. "Penrod," he said thoughtfully, "was it on account of fortygraphing in the jungle you wanted to keep that cat?" "No; that was a mighty fine-blooded cat. We'd of made some money." Sam jeered.
The Lord only knows what means he used, for, as you say, she still loves me." "Folks say Henley turns up his nose at common folks now," Bradley went on. "He's planning a great stock-farm, and going to keep fine-blooded race-horses, and him and his wife is going to travel about and see the world. Things certainly run crooked in this life."
However, upon excruciating entreaty, he consented to explore the surface of the water with a clothes-prop, but reported that the luckless trousers had disappeared in the depths, Herman having forgotten to remove some "fishin' sinkers" from his pockets before making the fated loan. Penrod was soothing a lacerated wrist in his mouth. "That's a mighty fine-blooded cat," he remarked.
It was an impressive sight to see this procession of fine-blooded stock arrive at the farm, and the eyes of both Bob and his aunt were glistening when they looked at each other as the procession came up the new road into the barnyard. "Well, what do you think of them, Bettie?" called her husband, jumping from his auto and kissing her. "Almost like a circus procession.
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