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He didn't seem sick or anything, so we can't make out his object in shuttin' himself up in the house an' seldom ever stickin' his nose outside the door." "Isn't it possible that he isn't there at all?" "He's there all right. Every now an' then he has visitors, just like this woman to-day, and sometimes they come down here for supper. They don't hesitate to speak of him, so he must be there.
I wouldn't wonder if the same thing that's troublin' her is what ails me." "But what is it? Why don't you tell me?" "I'm goin' to tell you, Keziah. That's what I come here for. "Sit down, can't you? Don't stand up there like a lighthouse, shuttin' out the whole broadside of the room. You are the BIGGEST thing!"
"I might think it my duty to let Sir Lionel know how he's being humbugged. At present I'm shuttin' my eyes to duty, and lookin' at you. What?" "Why does Mrs. Senter want to come with us?" I ventured to inquire. "Because," explained her loyal nephew, "she's fed up with visiting, and she loves motoring. So do I, with the right people. I'm sure it's not much to ask. We won't sponge on Sir Lionel.
"Ye better l'ave that with me for the dollar that's owing me. If ye have money to buy new axes ye can't be broke entirely." Or: "Slip the halter on that calf behind there. The mother hasn't enough to keep it alive. There's har'ly a dollar's wort' of hide on its bones, but I'll take it to save it droppin' on the road." Or, he would try sarcasm: "Well, we'll be shuttin' her down in the spring.
"Miss Hallie, ef he stay here, I ain't gwine to play." "Whar you git dem whiskers at?" demanded Uncle Billy. "Shut up!" cried Virgie. "I'm shuttin'," said Uncle Billy, retreating. Thus reassured Sally Ann continued: "I gwine down stairs to git my dinner When I come back, I sho' gwine kill you.
Again, "Paddy Cummisky's wife tuck ill of a young one, an' Phelim was sent for to bring the midwife; but afore he kem to Paddy's, or hard o' the thing at all, the prisoner, airly in the night, comin' to sit awhile wid Paddy, went for the midwife instead o' Phelim, an' thin they sot up an' had a sup in regard of the 'casion; an' the prisoner never left them at all that night until the next mornin'. An' by the same token, he remimbered Paddy Cummisky barrin' the door, an' shuttin' the windies, bekase it's not lucky to have them open, for fraid that the fairies 'ud throw their pishthrogues upon the young one, an' it not christened."
Arizona made a law that no stock was to be shipped into any of her territory without bein' inspected. That helped some. But inspectors is human, and some sick sheep got by. "Then one day a fella that had some brains got up in the State House and spoke for the shuttin' out of all stock until the disease was stomped out. You see, that disease didn't start in this here country.
And don't you think they can't find ways of shuttin' up a kid like you!" "But Mr. Finnegan, it would be murder!" "Well, they wouldn't have to do it themselves, would they? When Henry Hickman wants a chicken for dinner, he don't have to wring its neck with his own hands." Samuel could find nothing to reply to that. He sat dumb with horror.
That's why you're getting so smart all of a sudden about government! Look a-here. Just l'me tell you something. You're lucky if you git enough to eat this winter. Do you know there's talk of the factory shuttin' down? Dog tax! Why you're lucky if you git shoes." Stubby had turned away and was standing with his back to his father, hands in his pockets. "And l'me tell you some'en else, young man.
When his broadside touched ground, Jack was standing beside him; and when he leaped to his feet, Jack was in the saddle. Exeunt fighting. Toby, with his bare feet and brown, good-humoured face, was the only person visible on the station premises as I rode up. "Gosh, I didn't know you till I seen you side-on, when you was shuttin' the Red Gate," he remarked.
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