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Then, when she and her husband were alone in the kitchen, before the young folk came down, she said, pointing the fork at him: "I declare for't! I'd feel ashamed if I was you, Jason Day." "What for?" demanded her husband, scowling. "Lettin' Broxton's gal do that. You could ha' tacked on that leg forty times if you could once. Ain't that true?" But Mr. Day refused to quarrel.
Standing on your feet all day till you're wore out for six dollars a week what's there in it?" sob "With that guy Walters who walks the floor never lettin' up on you.
After he had rapidly repeated the Lord's prayer, which he had recently learned, and had invoked blessings on all his new friends and never-to-be-forgotten old ones, he concluded with: "An', O Lord, You done kep' me f'om meddlin' with Aunt Minerva's hose any mo', an' you done kep' me f'om gittin' any mo' Easter eggs, an' playin' any mo' Injun, an' You done kep' me f'om lettin' Mr.
When Mrs. Van's eyes twinkled you forgot that her face was hard. "My, but they're hittin' it up on Broadway about this time! Let's see it'll be about eleven the theatres just lettin' out, crowds going up and down and pouring into restaurants. Say, ain't it queer the difference in people's lives?
Why, he's where yu' want him to be. Standin' off, keepin' his mouth shut, and lettin' yu' find your own trail out. If he tried to show it to yu', yu'd likely hit him. But shucks! Circumstances have showed me the trail this time, you bet!" And the puncher's face, which had been sombre, grew lively, and he laid a friendly hand on my knee. "The trail's pretty simple," said I. "You bet!
Everybody 'round here knew it 'cept him and the light-keeper, and he's so durned lazy he never once dropped on to 'em. He'd git bounced if the Gov'ment found out he was lettin' a gang run the House o' Refuge whenever they felt like it. Fogarty, the fisherman's, got the key, or oughter have it, but the light-keeper's responsible, so I hearn tell.
"No, Pat," replied Mrs. Brady kindly. "Your work, for to-day, is done. You may take off your apron." "Yes, ma'am. Would you kindly be lettin' me go home a little while then?" Pat's look was eager but submissive. "Certainly, Pat," was the reply. "Take the kitchen key with you." "Thank you, kindly, ma'am," returned Pat gratefully.
She's only lettin' the birds that fly over your an' my heads settle down to roost. You and me, both of us, if we was situated jest as she is, might think of doin' jest what she's a-doin', but we won't neither of us do it. We'd let our best dresses hang in the closet, safe and sound, while we cut them up in our souls; but Eva, she's different." "Well, I don't care.
I'd of give something to have seen the two of 'em sittin' there oozin' blood after that marchin' was decided. Because they tell me that Bard was as big as Drew and looked pretty much the same. "Then Bard, he asked Drew to let him have one chance at the girl, lettin' her know first what he'd done, but jest trustin' to his power of talk. Which, of course, didn't give him no show.
"Do you wish to earn a rich reward, my good friend?" said Thames to the watchman, as soon as they were left alone. "Is it by lettin' you go, my darlin', that I'm to airn it?" inquired Terence. "If so, it won't pay. You're Mister Wild's pris'ner, and worse luck to it!" "I don't ask you to liberate me," urged Thames; "but will you convey a message for me?" "Where to, honey?" "To Mr.
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