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It is a known fact that if a young English Lord comes to an American town he puts it to the bad in one week. Socially the whole place goes to pieces. Girls whose parents are in the hardware business and who used to call their father "pop" begin to talk of precedence and whether a Duchess Dowager goes in to dinner ahead of or behind a countess scavenger.
It was pleasant weather, and they roamed around the farm in company with their father and their uncle, or with Alexander Pop, the colored man of work. As my old readers know, Pop had been in former days a waiter at Putnam Hall, and Dick, Tom, and Sam had befriended him on more than one occasion, for which he was extremely grateful.
When he reached for the satchel I tried to beat him off with my left arm, but he threw me into the road. He went that way toward Kiowa." Sergeant Clancey, who was kneeling by the figure in the trail, raised his hand in salute. "Pop Henderson, lieutenant," he said. "He's shot through the heart. He's dead." "He took the money, ten thousand dollars," cried Colonel Patten.
"Pop, I've owed you a-many an explanation that I've never paid. You never owed me one in your life till now; but" her eyes flashed "you owe it this time to the roots of your hair." "Fan, that's a mighty poor beginning for the explanation I expect from you." His tone was one of forbearance, but before he could finish she was as red as a flower. "I belong to my husband!
"Well, we call him Pop." "Why?" she inquired. "Because he's the papa of his country. He is named for George Washington, who is the Father of his Country, but the name doesn't go very far." "That's all right," spoke up George. "Up yonder where your topknot is there's an aching void.
Or else he must weep because of the pain in him. "Two waifs adrift in a storm, peering into a bakery window at the cookies." That was the key. A laugh at the dolorous asininity of life. "Face to face with the Roman Pop U Lace. We who are about to die salute you." Laugh, a phrase of laughter or he would stand blubbering like an imbecile.
It was in the old gentleman rabbit's waistcoat pocket where he kept his gold watch and chain and pocket knife and pencil with a rubber on the end and a toothpick. "How did you see it pop into my pocket?" he asked the Jack-in-the-Box. "I'll never tell you," said the Jack-in-the-Box, "but what does that matter? You've found your collar button, and that's enough."
If I had all my fixin's on there'd not be a soul to come, but let one sit in their old rags, and the hull country side will pop in." Moses had not heard the last part of the speech, for in less than a minute he was at the front door, doing the honors with all the grace imaginable.
The boy said, "The people are watching you and say you won't come back from the grave without having a drink, and that you won't be sober a week from now. Pop, trust in the God that saved you ten years ago, won't you? You know we promised to meet mother. Fool these people and let them see that you are the man and father I love." I straightened up, looked at the lad, and out went my hand.
Not even the sight of his sister had recalled the highly special nature of the state of things between them nor suggested the need for preparing an attitude to greet him with. At all events she wouldn't follow Sylvia's suggestion and pop out at him from behind a tree.
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