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"It's the microscopes that'll be sellin'," said Sandy, hopefully, as he pulled his coat collar about his ears and shivered. "The man as sold 'em to me said they was a great bargain entirely. He thought there was money in 'em." "For him," said Ricks, contemptuously. "It's like the man what gulled us on the penknives. I lay to git even with him, all right."
So'd you ought, if you don't get off to your peddlin'. It's long past your time. Here's a nickel for the jacket an' you put it safe by 'fore you start out. May as well let me pin one o' these carnations on you, too. They ain't sellin' so fast an' 'twould look purty on your blue frock. Blue an' white an' yeller frock an' flower an' curly head they compare right good."
But all this time, because nobody'll be makin' a great effort to locate water, folks will be believin' that government land is as good as ours. See the point? Paloma Rancho land will stop sellin' pronto, and our pleasant little dream will turn into a scary nightmare." "But if the surrounding land is inferior to the rancho," said Jo, "it's only a matter of time until people will find it out.
Then he has a mill now an' again " "A mill?" said Sir Richard, "is it a snuff or flour " "He's a professional pugilist," explained Giles. "An' he's employed at a music-hall," continued Mrs Frog, "to call out the songs an' keep order. An' Bobby always used to pick a few coppers by runnin' messages, sellin' matches, and odd jobs. But he's knocked over now." "And yourself.
"You think that buyin' and sellin' 'em is just the same as ownin' 'em?" "I do." "Your hand!" said he, fervently. "Mr. Mellasys," said I, "let me take this opportunity to lay down my platform, allow me the playful expression. Meeting a gentleman of your intelligence from the sunny South, I desire to express my sentiments as a Christian and a gentleman."
"And if I stay here Jed Hawkins is goin' to sell me to a tie-cutter over on the railroad. That's what it is sellin' me. I ain't I mean I haven't told you before, because I was afraid of what you'd do. But it's goin' to happen, unless you let me go with you and Peter. Oh, Mister Roger Mister Jolly Roger " Her fingers crept up his arms.
Reckon I be the oldest" and he looked about him as if for confirmation. "Yes, reckon I be." "What for?" "Sellin'." The answer came without the slightest hesitation and without the slightest trace in his voice of anything that betokened either sorrow for his act or shame for the crime. "Eleven months and three days of this!" I repeated to myself.
"Scraggsy, ol' hunks, if three-ringed circuses was sellin' for six bits a throw me an' Bart couldn't buy a whisker from a dead tiger." The dreadful admission brought a dull flush to Mr. Gibney's already rubicund countenance. "Shell out a coupler bucks, Scraggsy," McGuffey pleaded. "Me an' Gib's so empty we rattle when we walk."
If you were an upstart new-rich, my dear, y'd be sellin' y'r soul t' th' Devil an' y'r body t' some leprous kite with ulcerous weddin' kisses for the privilege o' claimin' this inheritance that's yours! There's a male decendant o' some collateral line on th' place adjoinin' yours.
"Sartinly I know, an' that's why I'm talkin' jist as I am. I don't very often git roused up, but when I do it takes more'n you to stop me. An' I am roused at the way ye've treated that gal ye call yer daughter. Ye've been buyin' an sellin' so long that yer heart is nuthin' more'n a bank account. An' ye weren't satisfied with tradin' in lumber, but ye even want to sell yer only daughter.
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