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The girl was busy looking after these donations when once the members of the sewing circle began to arrive; and Aunt 'Mira's pantry had never before been so stacked with food. Marty stole in to gaze at the goodies, and whispered: "Hi tunket! Just you go away for half an hour, Janice, and lemme be here. I could do something to that tuck right now." "And so soon after dinner?" cried his cousin.
There was a decided absence of rapture in Lilly's manner. She was prettier than ever, as Katy saw in a moment, and beautifully dressed in soft brown velvet, which exactly suited her complexion and her pale-colored wavy hair. "Katy Carr! why, so it is," admitted Mrs. "It is a surprise indeed. We had no idea that you were abroad. What has brought you so far from Tunket, Burnet, I mean?
Mason, and surrounded Tom. They were farmers living in the neighborhood. "What in the name o' Tunket happened?" asked one. "Did you get hit by a meteor or a comet? Who tied you up; highwaymen?" "Cut him loose first, and ask questions afterward," suggested Mr. Mason. "Yes," added Tom, with a laugh, "I wish you would. I'm beginning to feel cramped."
But that is not so. Everybody in Polktown is affected by the change. I am going to talk to Mr. Meddlar about it, or to Elder Concannon. Something ought to be done." "Hi tunket! There ye go!" chuckled Marty. "More do something business. You'd better begin with Walky." "Begin what with Walky?" "Your temperance campaign, if that's what you mean," said the boy, more soberly.
You air a sight for sore eyes, Sissy," he said; but added, nervously, "How in Joe Tunket did you git in the swamp? Along the road?" "Yes, sir," said Nan. "Come right erlong this way?" "Yes, sir." "Did ye meet anybody?" demanded old Toby, eyeing her sharply. "Mr. Raffer, driving his old buckskin horse. That's all." "Didn't say nothin' to ye, did he?" asked Toby, curiously.
"Bein' moved," said Scattergood, "more by cantankerousness than grief." "I'll venture," said Pliny, "that there'll be more'n five hunderd old residents a-comin' back, and where in tunket we're goin' to sleep 'em all the committee don't know."
We hain't runnin' for mail carriers, and we hain't niggers trainin' for a cake walk. We'd love to git a room and set down some time to-day!" "Yes, sir," sez the man, "we are most to your rooms." And he turned and begun to go down stairs, and we follered him down two flights and started for a third one, and then Josiah faced him agin: "What in Tunket ails you, anyway?
"Of course Mr. Haley is innocent and you will help him." "Hi tunket, Dad!" cried Marty. "You ain't goin' back on Nelson?" Janice was silent. Her uncle did not look at her, but drew his chair to the table. "I ain't goin' back on nobody," he said steadily. "But I can't do nothing to harm my own folks.
"Was he heading this way?" the Judge asked. "I want him to look at my peach trees and tell me what in tunket ails them." "Why, Judge, I'm surprised at you, and before the children, too." Cousin Roxy's eyes twinkled with mirth at having caught the Judge in a lapse. "I only said tunket, Roxy," he began, but Cousin Roxy cut him short.
"Keep that dratted thing out of my face, won't you?" shrieked the agonized Bailey. "How'm I goin' to see to steer with that smackin' me between the eyes every other second?" "Hey? Did you speak to me?" asked the widow sweetly. "Did I SPEAK? No, I screeched! What in tunket " "I want you to see this picture of the mayor's house in Blazeton.
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