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Simcoe paused, and rocked silently to and fro. Hope took her hand and kissed it reverently. Presently the narration was quietly resumed: "I told your mother my story. But she was stunned by her own grief, and I do not think she comprehended me. Dr. Peewee came, and she was married. Your mother did not say yes for she could not utter a word but the ceremony proceeded.
He holds a umbrella over hisself with one hand 'n' wiggles the watch-chain with the other. "'Ahem gentlemen, what can I do for you? he says. "'Something doing now! says Peewee to me. 'This is God-a'mighty's right-hand man! "'Er Judge, says Harry Evans, 'we are having a dispute concerning certain buildings on these premises, and er it occurred to me you could settle the matter.
"In two days Duckfoot Johnson leads ole Rainbow into the joint, 'n' I tells Brown it's a hoss fur Mr. Van. I looks him over good 'n' he's O. K. I gets Mr. Van on the phone 'n' he comes up 'n' writes a check fur eighteen hundred, payable to Peewee. He gives this to Duckfoot, slips him twenty-five bucks fur hisself, 'n' hands him the fare back to Loueyville besides. "'What next? says Mr. Van to me.
"I think the joke's on George more than even it is on Peewee and String," laughed Grant. At this moment Sam, who had been asleep in his room appeared, rubbing his eyes and gazing in surprise at the boys. "What's wrong?" he demanded gruffly. "Nothing," said George, beginning to laugh again. "It seems to me you make lots of fuss when nothin' is the matter. What are you all down here for anyway?"
"'Where's this farm at? I says. "'Over in Franklin County, says Peewee. 'I'm goin' over want to go 'long? "'You're on, I says. 'I'm not particular who travels with me any more. "We gets off the train next mawnin' at a little burg called Goodloe, 'n' there's three or four niggers with three or four ratty-lookin' ole rigs to drive hossmen out to the sale.
Of course, if they had known how he loved to just sit and listen to them jolly the life out of Peewee Harris, they would doubtless have arranged to do this every night for his amusement, for it made no difference to them how much they jollied Peewee.
"I think I'll go if that's all," laughed John, who was well known to have troubles with most of his examinations in school. "Look at that boat over yonder!" suddenly interrupted Fred, pointing to a motor-boat about one hundred feet away. "It looks to me as if it was trying to pass us." "That's just what it is trying to do," said Grant eagerly. "Don't you let them do it, Peewee."
He give three hundred and twenty dollars cash fer it. "Not long after that I begins to notice a noise. It ain't like any other sound I ever hears before. It gets right into my system. It's gettin' closer 'n' pretty soon I think I'll go find a nail 'n' bite on it. "'What's that? says Peewee. "'It's him, says Burns. 'It's Harry. If he don't have no bad luck he'll be here in twenty minutes.
"Who are you?" he asked, and the little bird replied: "I'm Peewee, the littlest bird in the whole Friendly Forest." "What do you look like?" said the little rabbit, curiously, gazing here and there and everywhere and behind a tree and under a stone. "I've never seen a Peewee." And then that little bird flew down from a tree and Billy Bunny saw the tiniest little bird he had ever seen.
I hope you go regularly to church; and from what I have heard of Dr. Peewee, I respect him very highly. Perhaps you had better make abstracts of his sermons, and I can look over them some time when you come home. "Speaking of religion, I must tell you a little story which Fanny told me the other day. She was coming home from church with Mr.
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