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"Old Un, of course I have! You see, I don't like clews, or blood, or the police. You have all been clever enough, wise enough to keep this confounded business quiet, and so will I " "But, oh, Guv, arter somebody tryin' t' kill ye like a dog ain't there goin' t' be no vengeance, no gallers-tree, no 'lectric chair nor nothin' " "Nothing!" answered Ravenslee gently.
I may frankly admit that I have begun to love it since I heard about the two ragged little newsboys who came to the eminent city florist, with all their savings clenched in their grimy fists, and thus made known their case: "Ye see, Larks he was our pardner him an' us sold on the same beat and he jes' got run over by a 'lectric, and it went over his back.
Then her heart leapt to the glory of the young June day; she devoutly hoped that she would be spared to witness many, many such days as she now looked upon. "Mrs Kenrick!" said a voice from the bed. "Are you awake?" asked Mavis. "Do draw that there blind. I can't stand that there sun." "Does it worry you?" "Give me the 'lectric, same as they have at the Athenaeum on long nights."
At Christmas he had a Christmas-tree in the big house. I drove some of the visitors there. It had 'lectric lights; you could not see the like of it in the whole of the government. What's it to him, he has cribbed a heap of money. I heard say he has bought an estate."
'Lectric street lights, and macadamized roads, and all sech things, I s'pose," and Walky chuckled over his flight of imagination. "Wal, I dunno," said the druggist, argumentatively, "I'm free ter confess for one that a different system of street lightin' wouldn't hurt Poketown one mite.
"I won't," promised the little girl, and she started for the path, which was an easier way of getting to the bottom of the hill. The Indian waited with Bunny, and when Sue stood beside the two Eagle Feather gave a sort of grunt of welcome, for Indians are not great talkers. "Bunny has an 'lectric train," said Sue, for she was no more afraid of the red men than was her brother.
"I tuck her on my knee, an' leetle by leetle fer she couldn't talk much she told me thet they come from a great, big city whar war 'lectric and steam cyars an' policemen, fer ter play in the woods, an' thet her pappa an' mamma hed gone out on the water in a boat ter ketch a fish fer baby's breakfast.
"We thought you looked as though we'd made you an awful lot of trouble," said Ethelwyn, regarding the gorgeous ceiling of the car. "Yes, you did, although I was not thinking of it just then; you ran away " "Walked, mother," corrected Beth, "to the 'lectric car, with grandmother's gold dollar, to go down to buy a trunk specially for our dolls "
And you'll give me six candies and a rocking-horse, and a 'lectric light and a house for my pigeons, and " "I'll give you something nice when you've done the errand, not before. Now hurry. The library can't open till you get there. Think of it! All those people who want books waiting for you!"
"Bunny has an 'lectric train, and I have an 'lectric Teddy bear. See, Eagle Feather!" She pushed the button, or switch, in the back of her toy, and at once the eyes flashed out brightly. "Huh! That much like real bear when you see him in dark by campfire," said the Indian. "Much funny. Let Eagle Feather see!"
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