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"Why lad, if we were all agreed on the thing, I've got a party here that'll give us five thousand apiece for our claim I ain't such a fool as I look, and it wa'nt for nothin' that I left Pete there a holdin' possession, and there he'll stay till he hears from me so now if you're willin' to take five thousand for your sher, just say the word, and we'll have it settled in no time."
As we drew nigh to Ceylon I sez to Josiah: "Did you ever expect, Josiah Allen, to feel "'The balmy breezes That blow from Ceylon's Isle Where every prospect pleases, And only man is vile?" And he sez, holdin' on his hat, "I shouldn't call these breezes very bammy, and you no need to lay such a powerful stress on man, Samantha, that term, man, means wimmen too in this case."
"Where was her mother all this time?" "Settin' right there in the buggy beside her, holdin' the reins. Where else would she be?" "Did she say anything about my coming to see her daughter?" "Nope. She never said anythin' 'cept 'Good mornin', Ike, an' I sez 'Good mornin', Mrs. Gwyn. She don't talk much, she don't. You see, she's in mournin' fer her husband. I guess he wuz your pa, wuzn't he?"
"Left some fashion notes for the Sunday good stuff but I don't know whether he'll use 'em; that kid that's holdin' down McGennigle's job don't buy much space. He's got it in for me anyhow. I beat him on a convention story when he was a cub. I was just goin' down to your office." "Yes? I'm on the way to the doctor's." "You don't look well, that's a fact. Sick?" Helen smiled, faintly.
She said she and her husband hadn't slept a wink the night before, they were so anxious for the minister. Christie looked at her severely, but remembering the commands about loving and forgiving, relented: "Wull then, come on ben an' pray. Tom, you go call her husband! This is na time fer holdin' grudges.
I’ve said all I can say an’ I’m too tired holdin’ the ear-trumpet to say any more. I think the best thing you can do is to take her out for a walk an’ explain things thoroughly. It’s no good our talkin’ to her together; and, anyway, I’ve always been a great believer in ’Two’s company—three’s none.’ That was really the big reason why I’d never let Lucinda keep a cat.
He might 'a' gone along, an' then you'd 'a' had somebody to speak English to." "Yes, it would have been nice to have William along," said Margaret; "but I think I'll be all right. Mrs. Brownleigh wouldn't send anybody that wasn't nice." "H'm! I dun'no'! She's an awful crank. She just loves them Injuns, they say. But I, fer one, draw the line at holdin' 'em in my lap.
I sez to him how proud and happy I wuz to see him lookin' so well and holdin' his age to such a remarkable degree, and after a few such preliminary politenesses had been tended to, I branched out and told him with my liniment lookin' good and earnest I know, and tears almost standin' in my eyes, I told him the feelin's I felt for the Powers, how mad I'd been at 'em in the past, and how them feelin's had turned into pity, for I knowed just what a ticklish place they wuz in and how necessary it wuz for 'em to keep a cool head and a wise, religious heart, and then, sez I, "I d'no as that will save you.
Comin' to the Ohio I jumped in and swum across, keepin' my rifle and powder dry by holdin' 'em up. I hid in some bulrushes and waited. Pretty soon along comes three Injuns, and when they saw where I had taken to the water they stopped and held a short pow-wow. Then they all took to the water. This was what I was waitin' for.
"'Your father is worse, says the Osage, as he comes cuttin' in on Johnny ag'in. 'Must have stronger medicine. That medicine, holdin' up some of the cinnamon, 'that not bad enough. "At this, Johnny passes his 'father' over a double handful of black pepper before it's ground. "'Let my father get away with that, says Johnny, 'an' he'll feel like a bird.
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