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"I left one," she replied, "on the back of your chair an' there it is, sure." "Ay, achora, it's you that laves nothing undone that ought to be done; an' so it is here, sure enough." "Why, then, Gerald," asked Tom M'Mahon, "in the name o' wonder what makes you stick to the meal instead o' the soap when you're washin' yourself?"
The hull place looked like a City of Dreams, only the eternal waves washin' up on the beach, seemed to emphasize the silence. But what wuz that I see over the dim ruffs? A slender spiral of flame shootin' up through the shadows, and on Dreamland tower a rosy blush seemed to grow on its whiteness.
"Wall," sez I, "I hope your opinion will hold out." But I don't spoze it will. Six months of married life dry days, and wet ones, meals on time, and meals late, insufficient kindlin' wood, washin' days, and cleanin' house will modify her transports; but I wouldn't put no dampers onto her. I merely sez, "Oh, yes, Arvilly, men are likely creeters more'n half the time, and considerable agreeable."
I'm to dust every day, and sweep every other day, and change the tablecloth, and see that the washin' goes when it ought to, and feed the horse the cat no, no, feed the cat oats Oh, consarn it! Feed the cat and the horse and the hens their reg'lar vittles at reg'lar times and and Oh, my soul!
But for all that an' for all as the trouble in respect o' washin' and managin' has fell upo' me through the journey I can't say but what I think as my Lady an' Sir Cristifer's done a right thing by a hinnicent child as doesn't know its right hand from its left, i' bringing it where it'll learn to speak summat better nor gibberish, and be brought up i' the true religion.
I guess Amanda is there, washin' the baby; but she's used to children, and wont mind you more than flies," said a stout, broad-shouldered farmer, passing through the yard, a hoe resting on his shoulder. "Let me go with you."
Though he limped painfully with one foot, the other hit the ground impatiently, like the good horse in a poorly matched team. As he walked along, he was talking to himself: "I wonder what dey 'll do w'en I git back? I wonder how Nancy 's s'ported the fambly all dese years? Tuck in washin', I s'ppose, she was a monst'us good washer an' ironer.
"I wouldn't sneak off to Santa Fe an' cheat yu out of them. Yu ought to be ashamed of yoreself." "Yah!" snorted the aggrieved little man. "I had business over to Santa Fe!" "Shore," endorsed Hopalong. "We've all had business over to Santa Fe. Why, about eight years ago I had business " "Choke up," interposed Red. "About eight years ago yu was washin' pans for cookie, an' askin' me for cartridges.
I dunno how much washin' 'em change 'em, Miss Julia, ma'am, I say, ''cause how much they change or ain't change, that's fer you to say and me not to jedge, I say." "Lan' o' misery!" cried the visitor, chuckling delightedly. "I wonder how you done kep' you face, Miss Kitty. What Miss Julia say?" A loud, irresponsible outburst of mirth on the part of Mrs. Silver followed.
And cleanin' house time " "Mebby," sez I honestly, "it would come handy in whitewashin' or fixin' the stovepipe, but where would it be in cleanin' mop-boards, or puttin' down carpets, or washin' winders, or doin' a three weeks washin', or bilin' soap? or pickin' geese? They act like fury shot up on the barn floor. How could you git our old gander up on a pedestal?
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