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He asked me seven weeks ago come Wednesday, and I've got lots of my sewin' done. Some of my trimmin' 's real pretty. You come over'n' see it. Good-by. Don't you tell." She walked carelessly away down the road, not casting a glance behind. But Milton was coming, a tall fellow, like his sweetheart heavy and honest of face. They might have been brother and sister for the likeness between them.
Wadleigh, composedly, as she trimmed the top of her shoe preparatory to binding it. "Well, you see'f I ain't!" "In the fust place," went on Mrs. Pendleton, nervously, "the cross-road ain't broke out, an' you can't git there. I dunno's a horse could plough through; an' s'posin' they could, Cyrus ain't no more fit to go out an' carry you over'n a fly." "Don't you worry," said Mrs.
I swan there was looking glasses in every corner big ones, man's size. I remember Cap'n Jonadab hollering to me that night when he was getting ready to turn in: "For the land's sake, Barzilla!" says he, "turn out them lights, will you? I ain't over'n' above bashful, but them looking glasses make me feel's if I was undressing along with all hands and the cook."
"And wasn't over'n above sociable when we come to see him," finished Captain Shadrach. "Yes, we noticed that. But I say, Judge, he must have had SOME money left. What became of it?" "Goodness knows! He was a child, so far as money matters went, in his later years. Very likely he frittered it away in more stock ventures; I know he bought a lot of good for nothing mining shares.
Prompted by his naturally accommodating disposition, and no less by honest curiosity, the soldier stepped up to them. "Ye don't seem over'n above familiar in these parts, ladies," he said, with his politest grin.
"No," and the boy's voice trembled now in spite of himself; "I don't s'pose I ever did. Me an' Shiner have been livin' round this way ever since we can remember, an' I reckon we always lived so. We used to sleep 'round anywhere till Dickey Spry got a chance to run a stand over'n Jersey City, an' then he sold us this place for fifty cents, an' I tell you we've fatted right up ever since we had it."
'Ain't it nice to have her here? he kep' on sayin' over'n' over to Lyddy, an' she'd say 'Yes; but byme-by, when she found he was al'ays on hand to bring a pail o' water for 'Mandy, or to throw away her suds, or even help hang out the clo'es I see 'em hangin' out clo'es one day when I was goin' across their lot huckleberr'in', an' he did look like a great gump, an' so did she well, then, Lyddy Ann got to seemin' kind o' worried, an' she had more sick headaches than ever.
He had her brought over'n' tied up right about here, an' there she stood till the floods carried her up over this here road and sot her down in the marsh." "Did the skiff belong with her?" Roy asked. "Sure enough; always taggin' on behind." "How did they think it happened?" asked Tom. "Wall, fer one thing, it was a rough night an' they may uv jest got swamped.
I always did intend to clean out that snake hole over'n the cliff, and the boys was stoppin' every time they heard one sing, anyhow, in order to git the rattles for Miss Bonnair, so I thought we might as well git it off our minds before somethin' worse turned up. See any sheep tracks?" He kicked off his boots, poked his six-shooter under his pillow, and settled down comfortably for the night.
Lorne jingled his pocket and Oliver took a fascinated step toward him. "I made thirty cents this morning, delivering papers for Fisher. His boy's sick. I did the North Ward took me over'n hour. Guess I can go all right, can't I?" "Why, yes, I suppose you can," said his mother. The others were dumb. Oliver hunched his shoulders and kicked at the nearest thing that had paint on it.
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