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"Last night in the new moonlight I got up to go see if I hadn't left my blue waist out in the dew, which mighter faded it, and I saw something white over in the Briar's yard.
"Well, well, if it ain't Eli Perkins alive and in ther flesh! Who'd ever a thort tew see yer up hyer? I allowed thet p'raps yer boys mighter come part way, but it does beat all how some fools air taken keer ov. Thank yer kindly fur this yer purty little gun, Eli. Reckon I kin soon git ther hang o' the way ye work thet pump bizness. Anyhow, I'm willin' ter larn.
"Charlotte said they ain't here 'cause she and me had never saw one, and I said, 'How could a book and pictures be about nothing at all? I showed her this book that Lady gaved me and she said, 'Maybe, but ask Minister. I said, no, I'd ask you 'cause you are older and mighter saw one onct. Did you?"
There's one or two families yer with grown-up gals ez oughter be squared; that is the boys mighter put in a few fancy touches among them kinder take 'em buggy riding or to church once in a while just to take the pizen outer their tongues, and make a kind o' bluff to the parents, d'ye see?
Ther wheels of ages ground it inter powder, which ther winds blew away; when men died, other men sed, 'They is turned ter clay, which signefied ther utter degrerdation o' death; but ther men what bilt ther Bable Tower, hed they but known ther secret, mighter from thet same material have bilt a dome higher nor St.
But neither to the right nor to the left could they see the hut that magnet which had drawn them for so many miles over the sea. Stubbs looked disconsolate. "Well," he said finally, "jus' my luck. Mighter known better." "But we haven't given up yet," said Wilson. "Did you expect to find a driveway leading to it? You get out to the right and I'll explore to the left."
Freydon, you won't know yourself after takin' a bottle or two of Simpkins's Red Marvel. I agree cordially, well assured that in such a case I should not care to know myself. 'Why, there was a chap down Sydney way, Newtown I think it was he lived in, or it mighter bin Balmain. Crooil bad he was till they put him on to the Red Marvel.
An' what am I to do? I bin there meself. I knows what the horrors is. He mighter blued his cheque at the last shanty. But what am I ter do? I put it ter you. If I let him go he might hang hisself ter the nex' leanin' tree. What's a drink? yer might arst I don't mind a drink or two; but when it comes to half a dozen in a day it mounts up, I can tell yer.
"Where the mischief did you get that rig, Jordan?" asked Sedgwick. "I brung it with me from ther old ranch; that is, all but the hoss. I didn't know but I mighter want ter ride, and I knowd I couldn't sit an English saddle a minit." "And why did you come away, Jordan?" asked Sedgwick.
Bates was to escort her on the nuptial journey, and all arrangements for the wedding of the distinguished pair had been completed. And now "Just as if she mighter bin any tramp's cur," as Bates feelingly put it Desdemona had elected to stay away and to remain away. And the news from Nuthill showed that "That there plaguy great wolfhound" was also on the missing list.
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