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I kinder wanted to go into the Irish Village, and said so; I remarked that you could buy Irish linen and lace there right on the spot. But Josiah sez, thrustin' his portmoney deeper in his pocket, "Id'no why we should go in there, we hain't Irish." But I sez, "Miss Huff said it wuz dretful interestin', Josiah, I'd kinder like to see it."
"I've got some tobacco," said the youthful Jenkins, "but it's fine cut; I use only that now." "I kin buy some plug at the corner grocery," said Pirate Jim, "only I left my portmoney at home." "Take this watch," said young Golightly; "'tis my father's. Since he became a tyrant and usurper, and forced me to join a corsair's band, I've begun by dividing the property."
But Josiah gin another deeper thrust to his portmoney and must have strained his pocket and sez in terser, hasher axents: "We hain't Irish!" And I sez kinder short, "Id'no as we're Alps." But I didn't argy there wuz so many folks round, wimmen have to choke off time and agin and conceal their shagrin' and their pardner's actin'. Miss Huff had told me a lot about it.
And she sez, "It is in the Babys' Buildin'. I have got a check for her one for her, and one for my umbrell." And she showed 'em to me. "Wall," sez I, "that is a good, noble idee to rest mothers' tired arms; but it must make you feel queer." And she said, as she put the checks back into her portmoney, "That it did make her feel queer as a dog."
I felt real well about it, and wuz about to put 'em into my portmoney, thinkin' that they wuz my lawful prey, seein' they had fell onto me through my pardner's weakness, when lo and behold! they wuzn't there. I felt real stunted, and kinder sot back. "Slight of hand," sez Josiah to me and Bizer. "Don't be afraid, I'll make it all right." And he reached out his hand to git the money back.
I'd forgot my portmoney that mornin' and didn't want right there in Solomon's Temple to dicker with Josiah for money, I knowed it would make him fraxious. And I wuz havin' such a lot of lofty emotions there at Jerusalem, I didn't want to bring 'em down by havin' words with my pardner. And I knowed too that "dear Mr.
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