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"Dat's what I mean, Mistah Swift. Why, it was all right. I mended it so dat de break wouldn't show, an' it would sharpen things if yo' run it slow. But dis yeah lawn-moah won't wuk slow ner fast." "I guess it was an even exchange, then," went on Tom. "You didn't get bitten any worse than the other fellow did."
"Please, Mistah My-Doctah," it was the pet name she had given him years ago when she used to ride on his shoulder, "please don't go to putting any notions into Papa Jack's head or mothah's. I'm just ti'ahed. That's all. I'll be all right in the mawning." "Come, Lloyd," called Mrs. Sherman. "We're ready to start now."
"What do you think I ought to do?" asked Lloyd, with a troubled face. "I like Mistah Shelby evah so much, and I'd like to be nice to him for the old doctah's sake if for no othah reason, for I'm devoted to him. And I really would enjoy seeing him often, especially now when everybody else is gone or going for the rest of the summah.
Yankee skippers have far too much NOUS to allow their hands to grow saucy in consequence of division among the after-guard. So now a sort of court-martial was held upon the unfortunates who had dared to attack Goliath, at which that sable hero might have been the apple of Captain Slocum's eye, so solicitous was he of Mistah Jones' honour and the reparation to be made.
To find out what is the trouble with the Laughing Brook," replied Grandfather Frog. "I'll help you," said Ol' Mistah Buzzard, once more sailing up in the blue, blue sky. Grandfather Frog watched him until he was nothing but a speck. "I wish I had wings," sighed Grandfather Frog, and once more began to hop along up the bed of the Laughing Brook.
Damon. "Hurt? Bless yo' heart, Massa Damon, it takes mo' dan dat t' hurt dish yeah chile!" cried Eradicate with a grin. "Ah got a hard head, Ah has, mighty hard head, an' de cocoanut ain't growed dat kin bust it. Thanks, Mistah Monkey, thanks!" and with a laugh Eradicate jumped off his mule, and began gathering up the nuts, while the monkeys fled into the forest.
Harrington's eyes were shining. His words, when he spoke, came breathlessly. "I'll have the first copy ready in the mo'ning, Mistah Maxwell," he promised. "And I reckon," he added, straightening his splendid shoulders "I reckon I'll give up the elevatah, suh." Maxwell laughed in high good-humor. "Oh yes," he agreed, "I guess we'll have to give you a successor there, in any event.
From the Green Forest came Bobby Coon, Unc' Billy Possum and Mrs. Possum, Prickly Porky the Porcupine, Whitefoot the Woodmouse, Happy Jack the Gray Squirrel, Chatterer the Red Squirrel, Blacky the Crow, Sammy Jay, Ol' Mistah Buzzard, Mistah Mockingbird, and Sticky-toes the Treetoad. From the Green Meadows came Danny Meadow Mouse, Old Mr.
Unc' Billy looked down at Peter Rabbit and grinned. "Ah guess Mistah Coon done make a mistake when he went to bed in mah house," said he. And Bobby Coon sheepishly admitted that he did. "I'm Mr. Jaybird, tee-hee-hee! I'm Mr. Jaybird; you watch me! You've got to rise 'fore break of day If you want to fool old Mr. Jay."
He squeezed the rubber rabbit so hard that it exploded with a bang, scaring himself and the others. "Dat's a trick on me!" roared the Rover's man, and tore the rabbit from his coat. "Dem boys did dat!" "I can't see yo' to night, or any udder night, Mistah Pop," said the widow. "I'se engaged to Mistah Thomas." "Den good night," growled Aleck, and turning on his heel he started for home.
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