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It seems kind o' queer that somebody or somethin' should be takin keer o' you an' me, but I vow I don't see how it's all ben did, if so be as nobody nor nothin' has took keer o' me, an' you too. It seems reasomble that somethin's ben to work all the time that I hain't seed.
It's most like a Sunday-school picnic, ain't it?" exclaimed the village seamstress, who at seventy years still had the same innocent enjoyment in such affairs as she had had at seven. "But, hush! Somethin's a-doin'!" Something was certainly "a-doing!" There was a great bustle and stir at the double doors and in came Deacon Meakin, William, Mr.
"You haven't as much sense as that 'fool dawg, Max!" retorted the first speaker, who was none other than the swarthy ruffian, Harry Mole. "Somethin's going on over there at the settlement or the dog wouldn't bark. Come on, hurry; Branks may need us." So saying, he and his companion passed by, and Alec, who had heard every word, breathed a sigh of relief.
The other girls rushed outward to see for themselves, and Alfy reached the piazza just in time to hear Mattie remark: "Yes, they do travel powerful slow. They ain't in no hurry to get here. Somethin's happened. You can just believe me somethin's happened!"
Well, I'll have to take you out tomorrow and show you." The chief's keen eyes began to shine as they studied Neale. "No, couldn't find any snag, Baxter, old boy... and the reason is because there's no snag to find." Baxter stared and his worn face reddened. "Boy, somethin's gone to your head," he retorted. "Wal, I should smile, as Larry would say." Baxter pounded the table.
"No, Honor, I know he wouldn't; no," he shouted, leaping up, "he wouldn't make a saicrefize o' me! Connor, save me, save me," he shrieked, throwing his arms about his neck; "save me; my heart's breakin' somethin's tearin' me different ways inside; I can cry, you see; I can cry, but I'm still as hard as a stone; it's terrible this I'm sufferin' terrible all out for a weak ould man like me.
Lucy, hyar," he continued, after having patted her nose, "'n' all critters, has one kind of whinny fer hunger 'n' thirst, another when somethin's scarin' 'em, another when they're hurt, another when they're callin' a critter, 'n' another when they're answerin'. Most all varmints has those, too; jest the same as a critter 'cept the hunger call."
I'd ought to have enough." He read over the directions. "Seems to me this receipt sounds skimpin'," was his comment. "Somethin's got to be done about it. Most loike it wasn't made for a big family, but for a little wan loike General Brady's." He ate another raisin. "A little puddin's just nothin'," he said.
And as far's bein' crazy's concerned, don't let it worry ye none. We're all crazy, too, or we wouldn't be here." Under cover of his banter the veteran eyed the other sharply. As he turned his gaze aside to the moving figures about him he thought: "Begorry! he don't look like a nut, at that. Mebbe somethin's unscrambled his brains again. Here's hopin', anyways."
"Maybe so, but folks'll suspect, I guess. They'll think somethin's queer when you and Kenelm go to the Cattle Show together today." "No, they won't. Why should they? Didn't Hannah Parker herself go yesterday with Mr. Hammond? And didn't Mr. Kendrick go with Miss Emily? Yes, and you with Cap'n Bangs? Lordy, ma'am, I " "Don't say 'Lordy, Imogene," cautioned Thankful, and hastened away.
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