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Walkin' up and down, up and down, to pass away the time till the train comes. Waitin' for a letter. It won't come. It never will come. And him waitin' and waitin'. He'd as well wait for the dead to come to life or for that wife of his to leave her Kentucky home she's so much fonder of than she is of him or the baby or anything else in the world, to come back to him.

I tried to bluff him out of it, but he stuck to it, finally sayin' that I had him, an' could finish him if I wanted to; but that it was the God's truth, an' he'd stick to it. As I looked into his eyes I knew beyond a doubt that he was dealin' straight; an' as my plans toppled over an' came tumblin' about me, I felt like walkin' down to the dock an' endin' it all.

And couldn't we arrange a time you, too, Betsy, I want you as well!" "I'm afeard I'd be like the fifth wheel to a wagon." "No, no! You must be there you must hear a good part of what I have to say." "A good part that'll do; thought you didn't mean the whole. Don't fret so, lad; you'll have Roger trampin' me down, next thing. Martha and me talk o' walkin' over to Polly Withers's.

We can't git a train home for five hours." "We'll be settin' right in the depot waitin' for it," said Mandy, who declined to take chances. "Be sure you keep your money in the pants pocket on the side I'm walkin' on. Pickpockets 'u'd have some difficulty gittin' past me." "Only thing ag'in' Johnnie Bones," said Scattergood, "is that he hain't a first-rate hardware clerk."

It's quite true that master knew things; but how was the wonder. I couldn't see Mr. B.'s face during this dialogue, bein on the wrong side of the door; but there was a considdrable paws after thuse complymints had passed between the two genlmn, one walkin quickly up and down the room tother, angry and stupid, sittin down, and stampin with his foot. "Now listen to this, Mr.

"I reckon ye'd best go down to the corner there, where the two streets comes together," answered the captain, pointing to where a much-frequented cross-street intersected our avenue. "Them's my opinions, for I see lots more folks walkin' that way than this."

The minister he was a stranger in town was walkin' up and down the aisles tryin' to influence the mourners to come forward. He crept up on Kenelm from behind, when he wa'n't expected, and says he, 'Brother, he says, 'do you love the Lord? Kenelm was some took by surprise and his wits was in the next county, I cal'late. 'Why why he stammers. 'I ain't got nothin' AG'IN' Him. Ho! ho!

We're only pore, and it may be a sacred dooty walkin' in percession, but it ain't fillin'." Choking with anger, I said: "Put out your pipe, please." "Ma'am to you!" "Put it out this moment, sir, or I'll see if I can't find somebody to make you." The bricklayer laughed, then pointed with the shank of his pipe to the two photographs over the mantelpiece, and said: "See them?

Jest picture tu yourself a grapery, stretchin miles away, and in that air grapery is walkin men of every age and condition, and all are a pluckin them are big purple grapes. O, they know jest how many fur tu eat and not die. Their friends needn't worry: they ken take care of theirselves.

It was your walkin' with Joe Louden that really finished 'em, and I can say it upset me more than anything I've seen for a good many years." "Upset you, Mr. Arp?" she cried. "I don't quite see." The old man shook his head deploringly. "After what I'd written you about that boy " "Ah," she said, softly, touching his sleeve with her fingers, "I haven't thanked you for that."