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"That feller puts down his feet like a kitten," he said admiringly. "I never seen nuthin' ez wears shoes so supple. Shows speed, I s'pose? Built fur it." "Makes pretty fair time," responded the stranger without enthusiasm.
"Two years ago he bought the Cap'n Wegg farm, over by Millville, an' " "Where's Millville?" inquired the man. "Seven mile back in the hills. The farm ain't nuthin' but cobblestone an' pine woods, but " "How big is Millville?" "Quite a town. Eleven stores an' houses, 'sides the mill an' a big settlement buildin' up at Royal, where the new paper mill is jest started.
"Did ye hide it from yer MOTHER an' tell NATE GRIGGS?" Birt hung his head. The folly of it! "What ailed ye, ter hide it from me?" she asked deprecatingly, holding out her worn, hard-working hands. "Hev I ever done ye harm?" "Nuthin' but good." "Don't everybody know a boy's mother air bound ter take his part agin all the worl'?" "Everybody but me," said the penitent Birt.
It's, mighty little fur the Lord to do, but it's meat an' drink an' clothes to Billy just now. Now, Lord, Billy's jest the boy he's a hard case, so you can't find no better stuff to work on he's in a bad fix, thet we can't do nuthin' fur, so it's jest yer chance.
Uncle William glanced at him sharply. "Don't you see nuthin' over there?" He waved a huge arm at the horizon. The artist looked again and shook his head slowly. "I see a color I'd give my eyes to get." Uncle William chuckled a little. "Reckon they ain't wuth much to ye." His hand slid into the pocket of his coat and brought out a small spy-glass.
"A gal and two boys in an auto stopped here to fix a puncture, and suddenly the gal seen the canoe, and recognized it. 'Where'd you get that? she asked. "'Some gal paddled up here in it and sold it, I replied. "'Wal it weren't her'n to sell, the gal says. 'She's nuthin' but a common thief that's what she is!
It's not the nicest thing in the world to have your canvas blow away eh, Nuthin?" "You're right, it isn't," replied the little scout, "'specially when it lifts you right up with it into a tree, and has you tied up there in the snarls of a clothes line. I know all about that, and none of the rest of you ever tried it. Excuse me from another balloon ride like that."
I didn't mean nuthin'." She turned, frowned, and bit her lip. Around the corner of the veranda she ran into her cousin. He, too, was booted and spurred. He reached out, boyishly, to catch her in his arms. But she drew back from his grasp. "Why, Jinny," he cried, "what's the matter?" "Nothing, Max." She often called him so, his middle name being Maxwell. "But you have no right to do that."
"Say, missie, it's jest this, you're the Golden Woman who bro't us our luck. Some of us ain't got your name right, nor nuthin'. Anyway that don't figger nuthin'. We ain't had no luck till you come along, so you're jest our Golden Woman, an' we're goin' to hand you " Joan started back as though the man had struck her. Her beautiful cheeks went a ghastly pallor. "No no!" she cried half-wildly.
He wondered what the Padre's generosity had been, and wherein lay its connection with their present purpose. The explanation was not long in coming, for Montana Ike took up the challenge amidst a storm of ominous murmurs from the gathered men. "Don't take nuthin' from him," cried the youngster scornfully. Then he turned on Beasley fiercely.
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