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But meantime I've got to go on doing the way I always have. Joe has been trying to drive that tip-cart, and the horse ran away with him twice. Then he let the cart fall on his foot and mash one of his toes, and he can hardly get round, and Amanda and Alma don't dare touch that money in the bank for fear of not having enough to pay the taxes next year in case I don't help them.
No, that he had never believed, but people's tongues are dangerous. Well, and finally it was that chaise! Had Maurits ferreted out the most ridiculous vehicle in the whole town? To let that child shake thirty miles in a chaise, and to let him raise a triumphal arch for a chaise! He would like to shake him again! To let his uncle shout hurrah for a tip-cart! He was getting too unreasonable.
Soon the women saw him driving a neighbor's cart up the street. "He's going to cart gravel for John Leach's new sidewalk!" gasped Alma. "Why don't you stop him?" cried her sister. "You can't have your husband driving a tip-cart for John Leach. Stop him, Alma!" "I can't stop him," moaned Alma. "I don't feel as if I could stop anything."
It is as if my imagination were an old work-horse suddenly released from its accustomed tip-cart and handed over to a gay young knight who is setting forth in quest of dragons. It is blind of both eyes, and cannot see a dragon any more, and only shies, now and then, when it comes to a place where it saw one long ago.
With the early light, Yaxis was off, to the south, pushing his tip-cart before him and calling aloud bananas and fruit and the joy of Alcibiades's return, in his clear, high voice.... In the shop, Achilles arranged the fruit great piles of oranges, and grape fruit and figs and swung the heavy bunches of bananas to their hooks outside, and opened crates and boxes and made ready for the day.
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