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Thin he devours his victim, clothes, collar-buttons, an' all." "Well, well," said Mr. Hennessy. "I had no idee they was that ferocious. I thought they were like bur-rds. Don't they lay eggs?" "Don't they lay eggs?" Mr. Dooley replied. "Don't they lay eggs? Did ye iver hear th' like iv that, Jawn? Why, ye gaby, ye might as well ask me does a pianny lay eggs. Iv coorse not."

Like it says, I first endured seeing you, and then felt sorry for you, and then " "Cut out the poetry stuff," said Annie. "It ain't past noon yet." "I ain't had time to build my own house over yet. Pianny and all gone now, though." "Gee, but you do lie easy," said Annie. "You're the smoothest running liar I ever did see." "And all my books and things, and pictures and dishes."

"She was a-settin' there," said Tom Osby, frowning; "right there at the pianny herself. Can't you see her? Don't you ever sort of imagine things yourself, man?" "God forbid!" said Dan Anderson. "No, I can't imagine things. That's fatal I try to forget things." "Well," said Tom Osby, "I reckon I've been imaginin' things.

So engrossed was he in his thoughts that he did not notice Polly until he reached the table. He started in surprise when he saw her. "Hello, Polly!" was his greeting. "Where is Echo?" Polly rose hastily at the sound of his voice. "Didn't you meet her?" she asked. "We got her to ride over toward Tucson this morning to get her out of the way so's to snake the pianny in without her seein' it."

Now, there she's settin', right at the pianny, and sort of lettin' her fingers run up and down " "Tra-la-loo-loo, loo-loo-la-la?" said Dan Anderson. "Sure. That's just it. Tra-la-la-loo, loo-la-la-la, up and down the whole shootin' match. And she sings! Now what does she sing? That song about Gingerbread? That Mobile song? No, not none.

From the looks of the streets of Onabasha, you wouldn't think a woman 'ud had a baby to tend, a dinner pot a-bilin', or a bakin' of bread sence the flood. And the country is jest as bad as the city. We're a apin' them to beat the monkeys at a show. I hardly got a neighbour that ain't got figgered Brissels carpet, a furnace, a windmill, a pianny, and her own horse and buggy.

Sage-brush poured oil on the roughening waters by changing the conversation. Speaking as if making a dare, he challenged: "What I want to know is, is there anybody here present as can rassle a tune out of that there box?" No one came forward. "Ain't there none of you boys that can play on a pianny?" he demanded. "I've played on the big square one down at the Lone Star," gravely piped up Show Low.

When your company planks down fifty thousand in cold cash we will trade, not before. Then I will buy one of them blue grass farms in sight of the distant blue mountains and an automobile and a pianny and give Caleb and little Susie a chance to go to the University at Lexington whar Tom Asher and that Hall boy goes. O Mandy! Mr.

"Take a pianny an' enough Winchesters an' you can civilize the hull of China." "Fresno could kill more with his pianny-play than his gun-play," suggested Show Low. Mrs. Allen bethought herself that there was a lot of work to be done in preparation for the party. Even if everything was ready, the dear old soul would find something to do or worry about.

"Elder Stimmins wrote back pussonally, exhortin' me to be of good heart, sayin' further that the days of miracles weren't past; at any moment the unrepentant might get it in the conscience and signed himself my friend and brother in the church, with a P. S. readin': Dear Zeke: My wife Susan Ann will continner to have high-stukes till I produce a grand pianny.