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Didn't go half so hard with her when her other sister married. Yes-sir!" said the old man, by way of sweeping conclusion, as he rose to his feet "Marthy's the on'y one of 'em 'at never married both the others is gone Morris went all through the army and got back safe and sound 's livin' in Idyho, and doin' fust-rate. Sends me a letter ever' now and then.
"I have thought some of makin' changes in the department of instruction," he began. "Several accomplished teachers have applied to me, who would be glad of sitooations. I understand that there never have been so many fust-rate teachers, male and female, out of employment as doorin' the present season.
Dere's de kittles an' de pots an' de jars, an' ha, ha! dere's de man wid de de wart on 'is nose! Oh! das fust-rate. Massa's awrful fond ob skitchin'. He wouldn't sell you now for ten t'ousand dollars."
Presently the band stopped playing and there was a general movement of the crowd. People got up from the little tables and began to disperse. "John" leaned forward to his employers, and in a quick and rattling voice informed them that a "fust-rate" variety entertainment was about to take place in another part of the garden. Would they come to see it?
"No, I'm fust-rate," Clementina returned, with a silent joy in her father's face and voice. She went back in it to the girl of a year ago, and the world which had come between them since their parting rolled away as if it had never been there. Neither of them said anything about that.
He laughed, and Sylvester laughed with him. "Well," observed the lawyer, "I'm not sure that I couldn't qualify on both of those counts. At any rate I'm sure of my appetite. I had a lunch engagement with an acquaintance of mine, but he hasn't appeared, so you must take his place. We'll lunch together." "Well, now, I'd like to fust-rate, and it's real kind of you, Mr.
"Yes, massa, he all w'at 'em got now, but git more at Massa Whaley plantation win 'em git da." "Gih-e-wh-ew! Massa, I trow 'im o'board, Massa Whaley scratch 'em back, sartin. He tink 'em fust-rate.
"Don't yer believe him, Eb," said another man, "it's some gum game." "Look here," I said, "this is all a mistake. We're not burglars. This house " "Yes, we know all about that," said a man, "we've heard this feller tell all about his Uncle Alfred Peabody's house. It's a fust-rate story, only Uncle Alfred's is next door. This is T. Parker Littlefield's, an' you know it, too."
"I have thought some of makin' changes in the department of instruction," he began. "Several accomplished teachers have applied to me, who would be glad of sitooations. I understand that there never have been so many fust-rate teachers, male and female, out of employment as doorin' the present season.
Cousin Siah, as we called Josiah, didn't cotton tew the old woman, though he did tew her cash; but we hitched along fust-rate. She was 'tached tew the place, hated tew hev it let or sold, thought I'd go to everlastin' rewin ef I took tew lumberin' ag'in, an' hevin' a tidy little sum er money all her own, she took a notion tew buy me off.
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