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This for you and Nebraska!" With which she snapped her fingers under his nose once, twice, and again. "I wish Pap was still alive. He could always handle you. Remember the time you sassed him there in ..." Here Marie accidentally dropped her brush into an empty pail, and the clatter drowned out the name of the town so far as Racey was concerned.
Allworthy gave positive orders for the child to be taken away and provided with pap and other things against it waked. He likewise ordered that proper clothes should be procured for it early in the morning, and that it should be brought to himself as soon as he was stirring. Such was the respect Mrs.
Ned's last injunction was quite unnecessary. The loud outcry of the dog had already roused the family. Heads were poked from two or three windows, and a shrill feminine voice was shouting: "Get the gun, pap, get the gun!"
"Which they ain't," asseverated the man doggedly. "Which they ain't," nodded Birdie, "I'd feed 'em cereals an' pap " Sandy's face suddenly cleared. His whole being seemed to expand. "Say, you're a bright gal," he declared. "Cereals an' pap. That's dead right. Say, you know more than You'd give 'em milk to drink now?" he suggested. "Oh no, nothing like that. Water." The man looked disappointed.
And that instigator was, without a shadow of doubt, Pap Shaunbaum. Kars saw nothing of Bill during those two days of his preoccupation. But the second morning provided him with food for serious reflection. It was a brief note which reached him at noon.
"And Pap," continued Si, as if determined to banish famine thoughts by more agreeable ones, "has had the trottin' team nicely curried, and their manes and tails brushed out, and hitched 'em to that new Studebaker-spring wagon he wrote about. They'll put all the good things in, and then mother and the girls'll climb in.
"Pap," asked Sally one morning soon after she and Eliph' were married, while the three were sitting at breakfast, "what ever made you swing round so sudden and want me to marry Eliph', after objectin' so long?" Her father looked at Eliph' slyly and chuckled. "Eggs," he said. "I fooled you that time, Sally. I knowed when I said to go ahead that Eliph' has to have eggs for breakfast.
The humidity of the subsoil, at the time of the spring showers, would reduce the little earthen alcove to a sort of pap. The coating of saliva is an excellent preservative against this danger. It is so delicate that we suspect rather than see it; but its efficacy is none the less evident. I fill a cell with water. The liquid remains in it quite well, without any trace of infiltration.
Pap rolled his head between his shoulders with a negative motion which intimated that it was not well. "And lending her books, and all sich," he pursued doggedly. "That kind o' carryin' on ain't decent, and you know it ain't. Buck knows it ain't but he's willin' to have her. He told her he was willin' to have her, and the fool gal let on like she didn't want him.
"Keep still," said the boy at the window; "they're tryin' to git him to tell his pap's name and his, and he won't do it, 'cause he says his pap comes and steals him ever' time he finds out where he is." The milk-faced boy drew a long, quavering breath and gazed suspiciously round the high board fence of the enclosure.
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