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Kin I het up the coffee and " "Good gracious, Amarilly! I forgot you ate at regular, stated intervals. We will go right out now to a nice little restaurant near by and eat our luncheon together." Amarilly flushed. "Thank you, Mr. Derry. That's orful nice in you, but I'd ruther eat here. Thar's the toast and coffee to het, and an aig " "No!
You see I'm big and clumsy anyway, and now I'm so lame with the rheumatiz that I kin hardly move." "It's too bad," said Lottie, pathetically, but with a swift comical glance at the others. "Yes, it's kinder orful to be so helpless," said the old woman, with a complacent sigh, delighted at having a sympathetic auditor. "I'm dreadfully afeard I won't git no supper.
"Fishing-junks," ejaculated the mate, " pretty far out, too, but a Chink'll risk his life for a few bleedin' cash ... and yet he won't fight at all ... an' if you do him an injury he's like as not likely to up an' commit suicide at your door, to get even!" "That's a bally orful way to get even with a henemy!" exclaimed a stoker, who sat on the edge of the forward hatch. "I should say so, too!"
"Now, Las Vegas, talk sense," expostulated Roy. "Miss Helen is shore nervous to-day. Has anythin' happened?" "I reckon, but I don't know what," replied Carmichael, drawing a long breath. "Folks, I must be gettin' old. For I shore felt orful queer till I seen Bo. She was ridin' down the ridge across the valley.
And then he started, but with an eye to business, singing out: "Herald! Triebune! Express! last account of the orful accident steamer," etc., etc., etc., selling his papers as he went on to the cab-stand. He found the cabman already there. And to his anxious inquiries as to the sanity of the old gentleman, that Jehu replied: "Oh, bless your soul, crazy?
First he give a peek, and then I give a peek, and he was bigger'n me, and he took orful long peeks, he did, 'nd when it come my turn the ladies had just allers jumped through the hoops, or the horses was gone out; 'nd bimeby he said mebbe we might give the hole a stretch and make it a little mite bigger, it wouldn't do no harm, 'nd I'd better cut it, 'cos his fingers was lame; 'nd I just cutted it a little mite, 'n' a cop come up behind and h'isted us and I never seen no more cirkis; but I went to Sunday-school wunst, and it warn't so much fun as the cirkis!"
And Prue hugged herself ecstatically. "You'se 'orful good to me, you is, Mis' Tranter!" Miss Tranter stood a moment, an upright inflexible figure, surveying her. "Do you say your prayers every night and morning as I told you to do?" Prue became abnormally solemn. "Yes, I allus do, Mis' Tranter, wish I may die right 'ere if I don't!"
'Then, sez 'e quick-like, 'w'at makes 'em all shout "Toes?" W'y don't the brain 'ear "Hankle" or "'Eel"? Then the old doctor 'e did git mad an' 'e did swear at father most orful. But father, 'e knows 'ow to conduct 'isself, an' sez 'e quite dignified, 'I 'ope as 'ow I know 'ow to treat a gentleman. This pulls the old doctor up an' 'e sez, 'I beg yer pardon, Mr. Fallows, sez 'e.
"And he's orful good-natured to her, ain't he? Looks after her when she has tea with you, and so on?" "I should think he did. It's all 'Won't Miss Starr have this? and 'Won't Miss Starr have that? He scarcely takes his eyes off of her, all the time." "I know, I know; it's allus the same! You keep your eyes open, Harriet, and you'll 'ave your reward, as the Scriptures says."
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