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My idee would be to raise Willyum, an' not let him drink a drop of nose-paint ever, merely to show the camp what comes of sech experiments. "But Billy's that pos'tive an' self-reliant he don't need no encouragement about how he conducts Willyum's habits; an', followin' his remarks, Willyum allers gets ignored complete on invitations to licker.
"Are you quite sure, Di?" he said. "Pos'tive certain. Now, lie down if you like, and go to s'eep." "I could eat a bit more supper," said Orion. "I'm kind of hungry now that you has told me you is positive, Di." "All wight," answered Diana. "There's a teeny dwop of milk left. Course I was hungry and thirsty, and my trof was dry, but you shall drink up the last dwop of milk.
Nacherally, Dick stops at Hickman's tavern so as to mollify his feelin's with that red-eye. This yere wag gets in ag'in on the play, subtracts the pup an' restores the little hawg a whole lot. When Dick gets to Jedge Chinn, he onfolds to the Jedge touchin' them transformations from pig to pup. 'Pshaw! says the Jedge, who's one of them pos'tive sharps that no ghost tales is goin' to shake; 'pshaw!
An' before I knew it, I was out on Daphne Street in the moonlight headin' for Oldmoxon house here that no foot in Friendship had stepped or set inside of in 'most six months. "'They won't let us in, I says, pos'tive. "'Well, Calliope says, 'seems though I'd like to walk up there a night like this, anyway.
"'Count of his voice," Buck explained briefly, and went on. "So it was up t' Lem Fisher, th' foreman, an' him an' 'bout seven punchers, includin' me, got th' job. 'Course, we had some idea of where them steers was goin', an' what brands was goin' over ours, but we was wantin' somethin' pos'tive before we c'd get busy.
"Do you know if any one else in the household had occasion to go into my rooms during the day?" "Of course I can't be pos'tive. But I don't think so, sir." "Then I wonder if this belongs to you?" He extended his hand toward her. In his palm lay a small, flat, gold locket. Something like the faintest possible electric shock passed up Mrs. Slawson's spine, and contracted the muscles about her mouth.
I crawled down to de spring an' washed my face in col' water, but I kep' gittin' worse an' worse. Den somebody called out: 'Captain Stier, yo' Nigger's a-dyin'! My marster called de doctor. He sho' was shamed in public, 'cause, he knowed pos'tive I'd been a-pilferin' in dem baskets. Dem sho' was good old days. I'd love to live' em over ag'in.
I'm pos'tive it wuz Sarah Jane. Did you know eny uv her people?" "Yes, I think so," Abner replied, "but I'm still more interested in the other John Logan." "Well, sir, ez I said, I knew nothin' uv him, more'n whut I fust told you; but, stop, Peter Stump wuz his comrid, an' he " "Is this Peter Stump living, and, if so, where?" was the next anxious inquiry.
You couldn't help seein' how she had it framed up, the whole Corrugated Trust and half of Wall Street holdin' its breath while hubby, J. Hemmingway Piddie, Esq., worked his giant intellect for the good of the country. "That's it," says I. "I couldn't say pos'tive that he'd be as late as four o'clock; but " "Oh! then we'll not wait," says she, "Come, Hemmingway, we must go home."
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