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Then $10.00 apiece every time they go to town in the stage-coach is, say, $100 a trip and they go twict a week, say, that's $200." "But they might not go twice a week," Wallie protested, "nor all of them at a time." "You shore give me the blues a croakin'. Why don't you look on the bright side of things like you useta?
"It's bout ready to fall to pieces, but I way behind in the rent, so I kaint ask em to have it fixed." "I see you have no glass in the windows doesn't it get you wet when it rains?" "Not me. I gits over on de other side of de room. It didn't have no door neither when I moved in. De young folks frum here useta use it for a courtin-house." "A what?" "Courtin-house.
"Say them glory words again, won't you?" Margaret repeated the text slowly and distinctly. "Glory!" repeated Mom Wallis, wonderingly. "Glory! Me!" and turned incredulously toward the glass. She looked a long tune wistfully at herself, as if she could not believe it, and pulled reproachfully at the tight hair drawn away from her weather-beaten face. "I useta have purty hair onct," she said, sadly.
"Looks like they overloaded the fuse," Thomas said. "Got any spares, Cap'n?" "Right beside you in the cabinet," I said. "How do you know your way around a radar set, Thomas?" Thomas grinned. "I useta be a radar technician third before I got inta waste disposal," he said. "I had to change specialities to sign on for this cruise."
And all the friends That Bill had useta have is customers, And all get stung the same. And dozens more. Them old days Bill was one fine friend for sure, Happy and nice and straight and generous. And now to think he high-brows you and me! A great big house he's got, and a new Packard, And di'monds for his wife, that scrubbed the floors Back in the days when he was only barkeep.
That was my second home, I useta say, And Bill's Place was a home you could be proud of. Say. The old woman never kep' a floor As clean as Bill's was. And the brass spittoons And rail-you could of shaved lookin' in one. And all the glasses polished! And the tables So neat!
Best damned pop-corn you ever saw, kind they raise not fifty miles from where I was born. You know, I didn't useta like you guys. But now I love everybody. When we get to Saturn, I'm gonna make up for all the times I didn't give you pop-corn. We'll pop and we'll pop. And beans, too. I useta hate beans. Always beans on a ship. But now we're saved, and I love beans!"
But Billy, he's been so kinda peaked lately, so sorta gentle, and then again sorta crazy like, just like his mother useta be 'fore her husband left her. I couldn't help worryin'." "Well, now, Miss Saxon, I'll inquire around all I can without rousing any suspicion. You know Billy would hate that." "Oh, I know he would," flushed the little woman nervously.
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