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"Hoo cud it hae been," he asked after a brief pause, "that Bruce didna fa' upo' this, as weel's you, Mr Cupples, or didna scart it oot?" "'Cause 'twas written in Latin. The body hadna the wit to misdoobt the contents o' 't. It said naething till him, and he never thoucht it cud say onything aboot him." "It's a fine thing to be a scholar, Mr Cupples." "Ay, whiles."
A table loaded with eatables was pushed into a corner. The entrance of Mr. Martin, followed by a dirty, unkempt, and oddly dressed stranger, caused an abrupt cessation of the singing. The girl at the harmonium sprang up with a startled look. "What is it, Father?" she asked anxiously. "Nothing to be scart about, my girl. Neighbours, this gentleman has come all the way from London in an aeroplane."
But you'd a dide to see him come out of that old lady's room with his coat and vest on his arm, and his suspenders hanging down, looking scart. He dassent lick me any more or I'll tell Ma where Pa left his hat." "Say, you leave here mighty quick," said the grocery man to the bad boy, as he came in, with his arm in a sling, and backed up againt the stove to get warm.
"And you decided you would?" "Yes," said Jemmy slyly; "I saw you were scart to death, an' I was afraid if I didn't demonstrate for the old lady, I wouldn't get the money." "How did you know she had it?" "I heard you tell her you'd brought it, down in the parlor." "Oh," I said; "then it was your step I heard in the hall?" "I guess so, if you heard one.
I guess if our folks in them days did n't care no great abaout Lord Percy and Sir William Haowe, we an't a-gon' to be scart by Sir Michael Fagan and Sir Hans What 's-his-name, nor no other fellahs that undertakes to be noblemen, and tells us common folks what we shall dew an' what we sha'n't. No, sir!
Aug. 31. the rally is tonite. father woke us all up last nite hollering in his sleep. he dremp about the speach. this morning he went to Boston without eating his brekfast. i gess he is begining to be scart. i am a going to make his boots shine today. gosh what if he shood brake down. i gess i am getting a little scart too. brite and fair. Sept. 1.
"You are right," and Thure sat up quickly. "But I can't see just how they could know that we have the map. They certainly didn't wait for introductions when we charged down upon them; and I don't believe they followed us home they were too scart, the cowards!
'That's the first time you've ever treated me like an ekal, Zeke; and I can tell you I don't like to be pitied no more'n any other man. God knows there wouldn't 'a' been a perter monkey in the bunch, if so it hadn't come I was scart, or thinkin' of somethin' else, when a hot-box arrived.
Can't do nothin', an' Mis' Smith she's jes gone scart into somebody else. She don't 'pear to know nuthin', an' when I say help me, she jest stan' an' holler like mad." "I'll go over," said Aunt Hildy, wiping her hands, and turning for sun bonnet and cape. "I'll go," said Hal. "Me, too," cried Ben, and off they started.
'You get Jimmy, there, says I to her, 'to help you whack up the play-toys, whilst I disguise myself as Santy Claus." "She stopped and looked at me, then she says in a scart whisper, 'Are you really the Reverend Silas Hardcrop? "'I'm just as near bein' the Reverend Silas Hardcrop as I shall ever get, says I. "There come a twinkle of somethin' almost like fun in her eye.
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