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Oh, ma dear, you've got so much! So much more than you can ever use, and and you you're old now, ma, and I I'm so young, dear, so young!" "Ja, like you say, maybe I'm old, but I tell you, Becky, I 'ain't got the money to throw away like " "Let me let the marquis ask me when he comes to-night, ma. He's ready to pop if if I just dare to let him, ma."
Out came the opal-looking, bubbling liquid into a grey mug covered with stripes, and then Pop! again, and a mug was filled for my companion, ready for us to nod at each other and take a deep draught of the delicious brewing that carefully home-made ginger-beer of fifty years ago so mildly effervescent that it could be preserved in a stone bottle, and its cork held with a string.
Young Pete braced his feet and clung to the rope, admonishing the horse with outland eloquence. As they crossed the arroyo, the led horse pulled back, all but unseating Young Pete. "Here, you!" cried the boy. "You quit that afore my new pop takes you by the neck and the pants and sits on you!" "That's the idea, son. Only next time, jest tell him without cussin'."
"Doesn't it mean that it may be Leap Year, and the girl will 'pop the question'?" asked Dulcie, still giggling. "No, it doesn't." "Suppose they neither of them pop?" said Prissie. "It's a sign that neither cares, but it's not very likely to happen they nearly always pop." "I pricked mine with my penknife, though." "The more goose you! Take them back and try two fresh ones."
"I'm right with you, Pop. You say so, and I'm gone!" They reined in with the shadow of the post falling square across the necks of both horses. Pop gathered up the reins, set his feet in the stirrups and shrilled, "Go, gol darn ye!" They went, like two scared rabbits down the smooth, yellow stretch of packed sand.
Absalom's father was secretary of the Board, and Mr. Getz was the treasurer. "Pop he's goin' over to see your pop about it till to-morrow evenin' a'ready if he can make it suit." "When does Ezra go?" Tillie inquired. The New Mennonite rule which forbade the use of all titles had led to the custom in this neighborhood, so populated with Mennonites, of calling each one by his Christian name.
"He's so dumm he'll b'lee' most anything. If I have much more dealin's with your pop, Tillie, I'll be ketchin' on to how them novels is got up myself. And then mebbe I'll LET doctorin', and go to novel-writin'!" The doctor laughed with relish of his own joke, as Mr. Getz, grim with anger, stalked up to the buggy. "Look-ahere!"
"Well, my advice would be to give yourself up, do your time like a man and then live straight. You're young enough to begin all over again and you might make something of yourself. The Governor has romantic ideas about the great game but that's no reason why you should walk the thorny road. Now pop would kill me if he knew I was talking this way. It's a funny thing about pop.
She seemed about to speak, but I checked her with a gesture. "It is true that in the past I have sometimes seen fit to seek Jeeves's advice. It is possible that in the future I may seek it again. But I claim the right to have a pop at these problems, as they arise, in person, without having everybody behave as if Jeeves was the only onion in the hash.
"Charlie Werner? Hunh! Say, Pop, she ain't no squaw is she, Loney?" Sid Sterling remonstrated. "If I can read brands," Lone testified, "she's no girl of Bob's. She's a good, honest girl when she ain't crazy." "And no good, honest girl who is not crazy could possibly be a girl of mine! Is that the idea, Lone?"
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