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Moll thought over this for a few seconds. "Well, maybe you might have had to do it, Miss Violy, if them fellers had got away with you as they wuz plannin' to do," she said. Silence fell between them again, broken after a while by Moll. "They'll never ketch Pap," she said. "I guess I'll never lay eyes on him ag'in. I wuz jest wonderin' what's goin' to become of his dogs.
"Nothing, George, but, between you and me and the gate post, I wish that our old 'Pap' Thomas commanded all the army, instead of the left merely. I've learned a few things to-day. The enemy is spreading out, trying to enfold us on both wings." "What of it?"
"Si!" said the Deacon, joyously, sticking out a hand badly smeared with honey and butter. "Pap!" shouted the Corporal, taking the hand in rapture. "How in the world did you git down here?" They all laughed now, and the General did not check them. "Corporal," said he, "I turn this man over to you. I'll hold you responsible that he don't communicate with the enemy.
"'By George! said Master Harry; 'I say, father, you and I shall have to let ourselves out to work with the Kaffirs and live on mealie pap, and he sniggered at his unpleasant little joke.
"Come, just a little," said Tant Sannie coaxingly; "just a drop." "It's too thick, it's too thick. I should choke." Tant Sannie added from the contents of the bottle and held out a spoonful; Bonaparte opened his mouth like a little bird waiting for a worm, and held it open, as she dipped again and again into the pap.
Then she heard Mandy's thin, flatted tones announcing: "This hyer girl wants to git a job in the mill. Miz Bence, she cain't come down this morning you'll have to git somebody to tend her looms till noon; Pap, he's sick, and she has obliged to wait on him so I brung the new gal." "All right," said the man she addressed. "She can wait there; you go on to your looms."
To make white Marmalet of Quinces. Take unpared Quinces, and boil them whole in fair water, peel them and take all the pap from the core, to every pound thereof add three quarters of a pound of Sugar, boil it well till it comes well from the pans bottom, then put it into boxes. To make Marmalet of any tender Plum.
I feel as if I had some pap in my stomach and that takes away my appetite." He watched the others eating, as he cut himself a piece of bread from time to time and carried it lazily to his mouth, masticating it slowly. He thought of Martine. "She is a fine girl, all the same."
The next evening Jim Wilkins, landlord of the Kilo House and proprietor of the Kilo Livery, Feed and Sale Stable, was sitting in front of his hotel, with his chair tipped back against the wall, trading bits of indolent gossip with Pap Briggs, when Eliph' Hewlitt drove his horse Irontail down Main Street, and pulled up before the hotel.
Pap always said, take a chicken when you get a chance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see pap when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway.
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