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What did Gorry earn when he gave the world the ice machine? When I first visited the Patent Office at Washington I saw a model of the first sewing machine. On it was a card on which was written: "Mine are sinews superhuman, Ribs of brass and nerves of steel; I'm the iron needle woman, Born to toil but not to feel." What did the man earn who gave the world a sewing machine?
It's put me back where I belong behind the counter of a grocery store. I've bought out the old stand. Oh, I had enough left for that, and more! Closed the deal last night. Gorry, but I was glad to feel the old floor under my feet again!" "But I thought you you were tired of work, and wanted to enjoy yourself," stammered Mr. Smith. Frank Blaisdell laughed.
W-a-all, I'se an ole nigger, an my heart ees shree-veled up like, I s'pose, but my gorry, young massas, ef you don't beat, old Clump will jist loaden up do musket again an' an' an' but 'is 'ed agin de rock! Yah, fur sure!"
He's her husband's brother. She came in on the train this morning. Her husband stopped off a minute somewhere, she says, and got left behind. He could talk English, but she can't. She's only been in this country a week. She came from France." "Gorry! Won't ye listen ter that, now?" cried Perry Larson admiringly. "Reads her just like a book, don't he?
"Find out by seein' the cow if he hez gone, an' by not seein' no cow if he hain't. I'm comf'table either way it turns out. One o' them writin' fellers that was up here summerin' said, 'They also serve who'd ruther stan' 'n' wait' 'd be a good motto for me, 'n' he's about right when I've ben hayin'. Look down there at the shiners, ain't they cool? Gorry! I wish I was a fish!"
So it was arranged that Nancy should be made nurse and go to Elm Cottage, and that Mrs. Gorry should come in her place to Sulby. Throughout four-and-twenty hours thereafter, Kate tried her utmost to shut her heart to the child. At the end of that time, being left some minutes alone with the little one, she was heard singing to it in a sweet, low tone.
For why don't ye get down wit yer pick, man, and see what's in the ground? My gorry, I been minin' now for forty-wan year, ever sence I come from the auld country, an' I never read no buke t' see what I had in me claim. I got down inty the ground, an' I seen for meself what I got there an' whin I found out, my gorry, I didn't need no buke t' tell me was she wort' the powder I'd put inty 'er.
Gorry for the night, saying he should want no supper, and should be going to bed soon. Then the house became quiet, and the smell of tobacco smoke came floating up the stairs. Kate's hot breath on her hands grew damp against her face. She felt herself swooning, and she caught hold of the mantelpiece. "It cannot be," she thought. "He must not come.
"Gorry!" exclaimed Jimmy Bean tersely and uncomprehendingly, but admiringly. Then he added: "I shouldn't think anybody who could talk like that, runnin', would need ter ask no questions ter fill up time with!" Pollyanna laughed. "Well, anyhow, you can be glad of that," she retorted; "for when I'm talking, YOU don't have to!"
"Your new milk pail?" questioned Mary. "That's what!" said Jimmy. "The next time I go to town I'm goin' to get you two." "But I only need one," protested Mary. "Instead of two, get me a new dishpan. Mine leaks, and smears the stove and table." "Be Gorry!" sighed Jimmy. "There goes me tongue, lettin' me in for it again.
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