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"I thought I'd ort to see how you liked it first." He offered the papers to Mr. Parker, but the foreman shook his head. "You read it, Ross," I said. "I don't believe I feel hearty enough to-day. Read the items first we can bear the waiting." "What waiting?" inquired Mr. Schofield. "For the poem," replied Parker, grimly.
Robert was quite a favorite with Aunt Linda, and they often had confidential chats together. "Bobby," she said, when he returned, "I thinks we ort ter hab a prayer-meetin' putty soon." "I am in for that. Where will you have it?" "Lem me see. Las' Sunday we had it in Gibson's woods; Sunday 'fore las', in de old cypress swamp; an' nex' Sunday we'el hab one in McCullough's woods.
"That is because you hain't a man. You hain't got the mind to grasp these big questions. The corruption of the canal means that the bottom of the canal is all covered with dead cats and things; and it ort to be seen to, by men that is capable of seein' to such things. It ort to be cleaned out. And I am the man that has got the mind for it," says he proudly. "Then, there is the Star Route.
He had been leaning out over the prow of the boat, looking vaguely into the water, and now turned round. Eamonn was always asking people, "Cad tá ort?" and before they had time to answer he was saying, or thinking, something else. "Why do they call this the Gray Lake?" asked the lady sceptic. "It never looked really gray, did it?" "Of course it did," said Eamonn.
But then to be exactly jest, and not a mite underhanded, I ort mebby to say, that her groan may be caused partly by the fact that that aniversery of hern wuz a-drawin' so near. Yes, the very next day wuz the day jest 20 years ago that Samuel Danker went away from Submit Tewksbury to heathen lands.
But I knew right was right, and I felt that Sally ort to be let to tend to her lamb; so Sally and I sallied homewards. But the hired girl had tended to it well. It wus good very good. Wall, the next mornin' Cicely wus better, and we sot sail for Mount Vernon.
Bartram," said the cobbler, resting for a moment, and straightening his weary back, "if I was in trouble, been doin' somethin' wrong, for instance, an' was hauled into court, an' had you for my lawyer, though of course I couldn't expect to have so smart a man, I'd ort to believe that you'd do everythin' that could be done an' ort to be done, ortn't I?"
I hailed that sound as helpin' forward the era of Love, Peace, goodwill to men and wimmen. Yes, it wuz a happy hour for her who was once Smith, when man, in the shape of President Cleveland, pressed the button with his thumb. And woman, in the form of Bertha Honore Palmer, drove that nail home with a hammer. Josiah thought it ort to been the other way.
In a stiff, cramped hand, she wrote to Holcroft in regard to the amount of "salary" he would be willing to pay, intimating that one burdened with such responsibilities as she was expected to assume "ort to be compensiated proposhundly."
I could see by Si Ann's face that she not only enjoyed all I said, but believed a good share on't, and bein' such a case for justice, I felt that I ort to let her know I realized our own nation's short-comin's, as well as hern.
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