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Her love chatter wearied him beyond measure, and he became cruelly short and evasive. Her speech grew sillier as she lost her tomboy interests, and Mose avoided her studiously. That night as he rode up Daniel was at the barn. To him Mose repeated Delmar's offer. Pratt at once said: "I don't blame ye fer pullin' out, Mose.
And then I thought that some feller was 'ittin me on the 'ead with a bl y great stick, and tryin' to make me let go of the tuft of grass. And then I woke up to find my old woman shouting out and punchin' me with 'er fists. She said I was pullin' 'er 'air!
"Mattie, sometimes when I'm asleep I think I am back there ag'in and you girls are there an' we're pullin' off the leaves of the wild sunflower 'rich man, poor man, beggar man' and I hear you all laugh when I pull off the last leaf; an' when I come to myself and I'm an old, dried-up woman, dyin' unsatisfied!"
"I should think any booby might know this is not the night for a fire, when things are so wet; but it is the night for a wreck, and the feller pullin' that bell tells me there is one off Gull's P'int." "Is it? I am going, then, and I should think any one but a booby would be going in that direction," retorted Will, noticing that the man was not moving toward the quarter where the wreck was.
He whipped up the spirited horse and they dashed away. Presently the man asked, with a grin: "Did it hurt much, Miss Patsy?" "Did what hurt, James?" "The tooth pullin', Miss Patsy." "The tooth wasn't pulled," answered the girl, sweetly. "It didn't need it, James. The only thing that was pulled was the Honorable Erastus's leg."
"Well, it's the same thing over again, the colt runs off. All Micky does is to keep him in the track. I see he ain't pullin' a pound. They've gone about six mile 'n' Hamilton begins to slow a little. Just then Micky lights into him with the bat. "'Look at dat! says Snowball. 'He's los' his min'. "'No, he ain't! I says. 'He's there forty ways! I've just begun to tumble the kid's wise as owls.
"She was settin' up in the same black waist, with a newspaper hung acrost the head o' the iron bed to keep the draught out. All of a sudden, "'John! says she. "He went close by the bed. "'Is everything goin' on good? she ask' him. "'Everything, he told her right off. "'Splendid, John? she ask' him, pullin' his hand up by her cheek. "'Splendid, Linda, he says after her.
"Don't start pullin' leather before the horse bucks," said Mrs. Pym. "I don't know who else she'd be goin' with. You sure look fine in that red shirt, Vic!" He grinned, half mollified, half shame-faced, and ducked back into the room, but a moment later he clumped stiffly down the stairs, frowning. He wondered if he could dance in those boots. "Feel kind of strange in these clothes.
The marriage yoke is plaguy apt to gall the neck, as the ash bow does the ox in rainy weather, unless it be most particularly well fitted. You've seen a yoke of cattle that warn't properly mated, they spend more strength in pullin agin each other, than in pullin the load.
"Pettigrew won't stand for no monkey business, pullin' a boss's head off on Monday and cuttin' him loose on Tuesday. They've got to be middlin' consistent p'formers to get by the major, and if Al Engle goes runnin' 'em in and out he'll get his jacket dusted good; you mark what I say!" The Bald-faced Kid shook his head. "That's your hope talking now," said he, "and not your common sense.
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