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"Naw!" said Chris, who was peeping under the window-curtain; "it looks more like she's busted her crust." In less than an hour every neighbor had been in to find out what was going on. Mrs. Wiggs constituted herself mistress of ceremonies. She had heard the whole story from the overburdened Mary, and was now prepared to direct public opinion in the way it should go.
But the calm of the big, heated girl facing her made her impatient. Could one not poke up this calm, as the child Billy had poked up the small, quiet ant-hills, so that they immediately teemed with excited life. "Are you not afraid?" asked Billy suddenly. "Afraid?" answered Lina, "why? Oh, I see, you mean about that; naw, what is there to be afraid of?"
"Well, what is it?" Gavegan whispered out of that corner of his mouth which was not occupied by his cigar. He did not look at Barney. "Any clue to Larry Brainard yet?" Barney whispered also out of a corner of his mouth, glass at his lips. Like-wise he seemed not to notice the man beside him. "Naw! Still out West somewhere.
You got a reputash. Don't get too intimate with the dicks. His response to Heath's steady look was a cheerful smile. Professor Brierly asked: "Do you know what you were arrested for, Mr. Smith?" "Naw! Somebody must be makin' a holler about a crime wave. Whenever they do that the cops get busy and make a pinch. They got it easy with a guy like me. I'll be frank with you, Prof, I got a record.
"Sandy Barker lives below me, and Caleb Titus jist above. Of course, there's the corner with a whole bunch of houses. It's pretty well settled all along the river." "Has Caleb Titus much of a family?" "Naw. Jist himself an' one daughter, Polly." "Has he a large farm?" "Not overly large; though he doesn't attend to it.
The Mike to whom he turned for authority was the same fourteen-year-old boy. He snapped, "Heh? That? Naw! Put in new band. Get busy. Bring me the jack. Hustle up, uncle."
"I take it from what you say, Jim, that you weren't made a prisoner at the same time they nabbed your father?" he remarked. "Naw," replied the boy, "I chanct tuh be away from camp jest then, yuh see. Wen I kim back I seed three big men a-hustlin' dad along, an' him a-saying all' ther time he never done nawthin'." "Of course you followed them?" said Max. "Yep.
MARIA calls upon her Mother's spirit, whereupon a very youthful Angel is seen floating above the couple. Theer now theer ain't bin no murder yet, and theer's th' Gho-ast sure enough! That ain't naw Gho-ast! Female S. What is it, then? Swain. Why, it's the "De-cep-ti-o Vissus," as was wrote up outside.
Santa Claus can't let you go to Heaven nor Doctor Sanford neither, nor our papas and mamas nor Miss Minerva. Now wouldn't we be in a pretty fix if we had to 'pend on Doctor Sanford or Santa Claus to forgive you every time you run off or fall down and bust your breeches. Naw; gimme God evy time."
"Oh, naw, sah, skuze me," said the old negro, "I ain't doin' dat, fur I dun tole you dat I didn' want ter be pertinence, but dar's some things, you know, dat er pusson would like ter un'erstan', an' whut I gwine git fur all dis yere is one o' 'em.
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