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When Lovey Mary stumbled over the Hazy threshold with the sleeping Tommy and the duck in her arms, Miss Hazy fluttered about in dismay. She pushed the flour-sifter farther over on the bed and made a place for Tommy, then she got a chair for the exhausted girl and hovered about her with little chirps of consternation. "Dear sakes! You're done tuckered out, ain't you? You an' the baby got losted?

I'm always having colds and headaches, and fusses of some kind. What do you do to keep well, Rebecca?" asked Emily, watching her with interest, as she came in to remove the tray. "Nothing but work; I haven't time to be sick, and when I'm tuckered out, I go and rest over yonder.

She was pretty well tuckered but as mad as hops. She told me that Saturday night she had a violent quarrel with John Spencer and that she fled from home in a burst of anger that was still on her when she got here. She's headed for the Pass and the railroad beyond and nothing that I know of can stop her. My wife and I did all we could to make her give up the idea but she was sure she could make it.

An' fer all of thet I'm worrin' some about the goin' ahead." "Ambush?" Jonathan asked. "Like as not. Legget'll send thet Injun back, an' mebbe more'n him. Jack, see them little footprints? They're Helen's. Look how she's draggin' along. Almost tuckered out. Legget can't travel many more miles to-day. He'll make a stand somewheres, an' lose all his redskins afore he gives up the lass."

"Lord, ma'am," exclaimed Polly Ann, "and you use' ter dainties an' silver an' linen! Tom is gone to try to git a turkey for ye." She paused, and looked compassionately at the lady. "Bless ye, ma'am, ye're that tuckered from the mountains! 'Tis a fearsome journey." "Yes," said the lady, simply, "I am tired." "Small wonder!" exclaimed Polly Ann.

"It was right after dinner when the old man rode up on Socks, the horse he gen'ally used. He seemed pretty excited for him. He got hold of Tex right away, an' the two of them went off to one side an' chinned consid'able. Then they changed the saddle onto this here paint horse, Socks bein' sorta tuckered out, an' rode off together.

He was pretty well tuckered out, and the red-headed gentleman who calls himself Lonesome Pete is bringing him along in his buckboard." "And you have no business at all out here?" "I had none," he retorted. "You don't know father?" "I am sorry that I don't." "You are going on to Crawfordsville?" "I don't know where Crawfordsville is. Is it the nearest town?" "Yes."

When she was quieted he drew the armchair up beside her, and, his hand stroking hers, asked about her illness. He had read in the paper that it was a nervous collapse caused by overwork, and he chided her gently. "What did you keep on for when you were so tuckered out? Why didn't you let up on it sooner?

Then when he could bear no more Levi Markham got up and walked over to Sandy. He laid a trembling hand on his shoulder and by stern effort controlled his voice. "My boy!" he murmured; "my boy! words come hard; I'm not an easy talker but you and I are both tuckered out. I have never had a vacation in my life a real vacation. I've always packed business and worry in my satchel.

Hollister sank heavily into the cushioned rocker drawn up near the table and removed her cotton gloves. "I said to Mamie I knew you'd be tuckered out," she observed. "Am I keeping you, Winnie is that important?" she indicated the slip of paper in the other's hand. "I can do it any time before to-morrow morning," Winnie explained. "It's the laundry list and I have about everything counted up.