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"Ho, Bob. Busy tonight?" "Ain't rushed. Anything blowing in the wind?" "A little fun, that's all." "Then let her blow my way. Steve, here, 'lows he's gettin' so old that he don't care for fun any more, but I have to have it bread and blackberry jam to me." "Well, you shall have it. How are the boys, the White Caps?" "Finer'n silk split three times." "Can you call them together for tonight?"
"I was gettin' uneasy. Honest I was." And dropping her voice: "Miss Kalmanovitch came on time. She's a good girl. Always." And she gave me a knowing look that brought the color to my face and a coy smile into hers Her husband appeared a minute later. After greeting me warmly he whispered into my ear: "Nobody knows anything about it, not even the young lady. Only her mother does."
'Ere 's Joe been knockin' ye down an' knockin' ye down, an' you comin' up smilin' for more an' gettin' it 'ere's Joe been a-poundin' of ye all over the ring, yet you can finish strong an' speedy enough to put Joe down blimy, Guv, you're a wonder an' no error!" "I don't think Joe fought his hardest, Old Un."
Do this," he says, "and you're a man agin." Jinkinson squeedged the doctor's hand and begun that wery day; he kept his tools upon the bed, and wenever he felt his-self gettin' worse, he turned to at vun o' the children who wos a runnin' about the house vith heads like clean Dutch cheeses, and shaved him agin.
Must be worse for Nelse, though, eh?" Galusha did not catch his meaning. "For for whom?" he asked. "I beg your pardon." "Oh, you're welcome. Why, I mean Nelse Howard must be gettin' more tired than we be, shut up in that front hall the way he is." "Shut up Why, really, I Mr. Howard left the house long ago, didn't he? By the front door, you know." Zach chuckled.
But there! arter all, he's gettin' on in years, an' she's ever so much younger than he is, an' I dessay he's made up his mind to treat 'er kind like, as 'twere her father, which he should do, bein' spiritooal 'ead o' the village, an' as for the pretty face of 'er, he's not the man to look at it more'n once, an' then he couldn't tell you wot it's like.
I sed to myself I'd ride on to the station, instid of gettin' out a piece this side of it so as to make a short cut across to the Mouse's Hole, as I usually do.
With the aid of his grooms Dawson soon had five horses saddled and bridled, curbs rattling and saddles creaking. There were only two cross saddles. Then he turned to Jess. "Ye'd better be gettin' them hanimals ready, for I dare say I've to give the young ladies their lessons too." "Hi-ya!" exploded Jess. Then added: "Come 'long, babies, an' git dressed up.
Rather than let Barry take either hand off the wheel she feeds him herself, even if he does complain about gettin' his countenance smeared up with mustard some. Anyway, we didn't lose any time if we did spill more or less of the coffee. "Cheerie oh!" sings out Barry, readin' a sign board. "Only twenty miles more!" "But such up-and-downy miles!" says Ann.
"They don't tell these things to sergeants," said Whitley. "But you see and you know a lot about war." "Well, you've noticed that the army ain't gettin' ready to march. When General Buell gets here we'll have nigh onto seventy thousand men, and seventy thousand men can't lift themselves up by their bootstraps an' leave, all in a mornin'." "But we don't have to hurry," said Pennington.
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