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"The Cortlandts seem to have considerable influence for outsiders. I thought I'd have to begin at the bottom." Runnels glanced at his companion quickly. "Outsiders! You don't call them outsiders?" "I never quite figured out who they are. Funny, by-the-way, how everybody says 'they' in referring to them." "Oh, she's the whole team.
He had suspected nothing utterly unlike the laborers as he knew them. They had no real grievance, either! Yes, they were going on with all their other work milking, horses, and that; it was only the hay they wouldn't touch. Their demand was certainly a very funny one very funny had never heard of anything like it. Amounted almost to security of tenure. The Tryst affair no doubt had done it!
Little Mary Louise could not take her eyes from him, and, forgetting all about the old fisherman and the boat, she bent over more and more, so as to look closer at the funny little old man, until, splash! down she went into the water.
I have known him on being asked the time stop short in the middle of the road, slap his leg, and burst into a roar of laughter. One never dared say anything really funny to that man. A good joke would have killed him on the spot. In the present instance I vehemently repudiated the accusation of frivolity, and pressed Mrs. Cutting for practical ideas.
Tinneray sentimentally, "she looked lovely just like a little wet angel." Mrs. Tuttle carefully smoothed her blue mitts, observing nervously, "Funny how Mis' Tinneray could remember so far back." "Is Hetty your sister by rights," suavely inquired Mrs. Bean, "or ony by your Pa's second marriage, as it were?" The owner of the overestimated parrot roused herself.
"Not consciously," Dennison replied, "but I get more fun from you than from anybody, and when you are in a serious mood you are the most comic man I know. He's delicious, isn't he, Lambert?" "If you can't see the funny side of our eight, you must be a madman," Lambert said to me.
"It IS funny, isn't it?" said Joe, wiping the moisture from his eyes. Then all trace of mirth left him. "Is it really YOU, sitting here and laughing with me, Ariel?" "It seems to be," she answered, in a low voice. "I'm not at all sure."
He ast me more or less questions, an' jest as we got to the house he says: "'Has your wife had any thin' to 'larm or shock her this evenin'? "'Nothin' 't I know on, I says, ''cept I bought her a new bunnit that didn't seem to come quite up to her idees. At that," remarked Mr. Harum, "he give me a funny look, an' we went in an' upstairs.
She is talking fairy. The reason mothers and nurses know what her remarks mean, before other people know, as that 'Guch' means 'Give it to me at once, while 'Wa' is 'Why do you wear such a funny hat? is because, mixing so much with babies, they have picked up a little of the fairy language.
"Perhaps," she thought, "he will not see me." Then a cold shiver went through her little body, as she felt something claw hold of her hair, and she thought she was about to be killed. She kept her eyes shut, and the clawing went on, and then to her astonishment she heard an animal voice say in wondering tones: "Why, it's fur! how funny it looked in the moonlight!"
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