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But as he caught the words that were spoken he realized his mistake. "Mebbe ye'll be sorry now, ye bothered a couple of poor fellers atryin' hard to make a few honest dollars a takin' game out of season, an' sellin' the same to the rich folks what jest has to have it any ole time. Jest sit up, an' tell me what yer friends are thinkin' of doin' 'bout it."
At that moment Drew could have lashed out at him and enjoyed it, or at least found a satisfaction in passing on some of his own exasperation and frustration. "We got a far piece to travel," commented the stranger. "An' I guess I'll string along with you, 'less, of course, this heah is a closed game an' you ain't sellin' any chips 'cross the table.
A letter asking yuh if yuh don't want to get rich in ten days sellin' books, or something, 'll hike along out here in no time. Doggone it!" "You got a hurry-up order to go somewhere?" queried Shorty, mildly sympathetic. "Worse than that," groaned James G. "My sister's coming out to spend the summer t'-morrow.
"That's little to be sellin' in a whole day," she observed. "Didn't you sell no silks and velvets and laces?" "I'm not to sell them, mother." "And why not?" with a mystified air. "Sure and I don't know. I've just the calicoes and the ginghams and the muslins." "Ah!" breathed the widow. And she sat silent in thought a while.
He sent the hosses to the pasture back o' the store, an' told Pomp to give 'em a good rubbin' down, an' to put some o' his famous hoss-tonic in the'r feed." "A circus!" Mrs. Henley said, with a sniff. "A circus, and me the daughter of a Baptist preacher." "Well, he ain't raily goin' to put the thing on the road," Wrinkle said, seriously. "He counts on sellin' it off piece by piece.
He sank hoarsely into the bass and quavered up into falsetto and a chorus of "Amens!" and "Hallelujahs!" followed him. "Oh, brothers and sisters!" he shouted, "here we are a-kneelin' at the altar's foot and what's goin' on outside? Why, the Devil's got his clutches in our midst. The horn of the wicked is exalted. They're sellin' rum RUM in this town!
"How many packages did you have?" "Fifty." "That's bully. How much you made?" "I can't tell yet. I haven't counted up," said Paul. "It's better'n sellin' papers, I'll bet. I've only made thirty cents the day. Don't you want to take a partner, Johnny?" "No, I don't think I do," said Paul, who had good reason to doubt whether such a step would be to his advantage.
"If you don't land high, it'll be because you're a fool. And you ain't that." "I'm afraid I am," replied Susan. "Yes, I guess I'm what's called a fool what probably is a fool." "You want to look out then," warned Miss Hinkle. "You want to go to work and get over that. Beauty don't count, unless a girl's got shrewdness. The streets are full of beauties sellin' out for a bare living.
"Gone, gone, gone," crooned the woman, clutching her hands at her breast again. "Jed has taken her taken her to Mooney's shack, over near the railroad. Oh, my God! I tried to keep her, but I couldn't. He dragged her away, and tonight he's sellin' her to Mooney the devil the black brute the tie-cutter "
"Wall, I ain't sellin' houses on th' Lord's day." "Won't be Sunday for two hours and twenty minutes yet, Deacon. If you talk lively, you can do a day's work before then. What will you take for the old Burnham place?" The deacon hesitated. He was a bit confused by this unusual way of doing business. It was too hurried an affair, and besides it did not give him an opportunity to size up his man.
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