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"I guess we'd most given you up," said the mistress of the house, coming out of her corner now. "I don't know what reason you had to expect me! Nobody asked me to come." "We're real glad to see you. Take a chair," said Mrs. Starling, setting one for his acceptance as she spoke. "Mr. Hardenburgh allays used to come to our little meetin's," said Mrs. Mansfield. "Thank you!
But they wuzn't tellin' the truth, though they had told the same thing so much that probable they had got to thinkin' so. But in the case of one man in petickuler, I found out for myself, for I didn't believe what he wuz a sayin' any of the time. Why, he made out in evenin' meetin's, protracted and otherwise, that he had been a awful villain.
"Ever of thee," A. Ward. Our complaint just now is war meetin's. They've bin havin 'em bad in varis parts of our cheerful Republic, and nat'rally we caught 'em here in Baldinsville. They broke out all over us. They're better attended than the Eclipse was. I remember how people poured into our town last Spring to see the Eclipse.
"I daursay you're richt," says Bandy, clawin' his heid. "Weel, the Provost shud juist keep a magic lantern handy, an' gar him bide in't. That wud keep him quiet at the meetin's." "We'll lat ye see a picture o' the whole Toon Cooncil, noo," said Sandy; an' in cam' the picture. "There's been some mair mixin' again," said Sandy, gey kankered like. "That's shurely no' the Toon Cooncil.
All alone in this ark of a house and nobody to help or to send. Lucky she found that Ike Higgins. Say, I wonder if the young one's around here now? If he is, he must stand at the gate and scare off Come-Outers. The whole chapel, mates, crew, and cabin boy, 'll be down here soon's meetin's over to see what kept Eben. And they mustn't get in." "I should say not. I'll hunt up Ike.
The very constitution of the Tammany Society requires that we must assemble at the wigwam on the Fourth, regardless of the weather, and listen to the readin' of the Declaration of Independence and patriotic speeches. You ought to attend one of these meetin's. They're a liberal education in patriotism. The great hall upstairs is filled with five thousand people, suffocatin' from heat and smoke.
"Second the motion," rumbled McGuffey. "The motion's carried," said Mr. Gibney, and banged the table with his horny fist. "The meetin' will please come to order. The chair hereby appoints Phineas Scraggs secretary of the syndicate, to keep a record of this and all future meetin's of the board.
But, now that I'm safe through it, I wouldn't 've missed it for the best cow on my place. After all, Providence sends men where they are needed, and He certainly sent me out there. "Then, I'll have a good story to tell the brethren and sisters some night after prayer meetin's over. It'll completely offset that story 'bout my comin' so near gittin' my head shaved.
"Well, Sir, it's so early in the day, that I can't go any thing stronger than brandy." "Two cocktails stiff," was the word of the gentleman to the bar-keeper. The companions took their glasses, and sat down behind a heavy screen. "Well, Sir, what's the word? I see there's going to be more meetin's." "Yes, Jim. Bodley has resigned." "Who's the man, Mr.
Thar's no chance to duck the play, however, as old Hickey's word is law, so I sadly buckles on the giant drum. "'We're jest turnin' into the picnic ground where this meetin's bein' held an' I've got thoughts of nothin' but my art as we moosicians says an' elevatin' the local opinion of an' concernin' the meelodious merits of the band.
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