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Guess ef I went up an' tried to j'in the real angels Gabriel would say, 'Go back, Seth Perkins, an' improve yo'self fur four or five thousand years afore you try to keep comp'ny like ours. But now, Johnny Reb, sence you're feelin' a heap better you might tell what you wuz tryin' to do, prowlin' roun' in these woods at sech a time."

A portion of the highly inflammable fluid had entered a great crevice in the dead tree, with the result that there was an explosion which resounded through the forests for miles. Then the flames mounted the tree, which was soon blazing like a great torch. "I guess that will attract their attention!" Jack said, shielding his face from the intense heat.

"Honest, now," said the bartender, kicking the valise to one side. "You don't think I'd fall to that, do you? Anybody can see he ain't no jay. One of McAdoo's come-on squad, I guess. He's a shine if he made himself up. There ain't no parts of the country now where they dress like that since they run rural free delivery to Providence, Rhode Island.

"I guess I don't care for anything more," said Frank, and he got himself out of the room more inarticulately than he need, Westover thought. His, father followed his retreat with an eye of humorous intelligence. "I guess Frank don't want to keep the young ladies waitin' a great while. There's a church sociable over 't the Huddle," he explained to Westover. "Oh, that's it, is it?" Mrs.

"There's no use kidding ourselves any longer. We might as well own up to it that we've taken the wrong trail." "Guess you're right, old man," said Tom disconsolately. "It simply wouldn't be possible for us not to have caught up to them at the rate we've been going. We're up against it for fair, and the question is, how we're going to get out of it.

"Guess," she said. "'Tisn't my lord, is it?" says I. "Yes, 'tis," says she, in a sick wild way. "But he don't come courting much," I said. "'Ah! you don't know," she said, and told me 'twas going to be in October. After that she freshened up a bit whether 'twas with the thought of getting away from home or not, I don't know.

"Bring him to my place!" exclaimed Stephen in surprise. "What can we do for him there?" "Won't he need the doctor?" "Yes, he may. But we can't go all the way to Bradin now." "Guess you won't have to do that." "Why, what do you mean?" "He's at the Stickles'." "At the Stickles'?" "Yep. The little girl got hurt, so we went after the doctor." "Oh, I see I see now," Stephen mused.

I wasn't afraid!" boasted Hal. "I guess you were thinking too much about your corn," said his father with a laugh. "It was very good of you, but you mustn't do such a thing again. Now you'll have to get dry clothes on. But wait until I show you how a hail stone looks inside." Daddy Blake ran out into the storm and came back with a handful of the queer, frozen stones.

It wouldn't do any good not any good on earth." She got out her lace handkerchief and began to cry. "Nothing does any good, I guess, in this old world. Oh, how tired of this old world I am! I didn't know what to do. I just tried to go ahead and be as practical as I could, and arrange some way for us to live. Oh, I knew you didn't want me, George!

They caught the train by a hair's breadth. So to Havant and inquiries. Dangle was puffed up to find that his guess of Havant was right. In view of the fact that beyond Havant the Southampton road has a steep hill continuously on the right-hand side, and the sea on the left, he hit upon a magnificent scheme for heading the young folks off. He and Mrs.