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They was a rill hothouse box from the Proudfits; an' a anchor an' two crosses an' a red geranium lantern; an' a fruit piece made o' straw flowers from the other merchants; an' seven pillows, good-sized, an' with all different wordin', an' so on.
I hope you haven't done it again, Peggy," cried Patsy, in alarm. "No; I got fame enough. What I want is to hev the wordin' on my business cards changed," said he. "What'll it cost?" "What change do you wish made?" asked Patsy, examining the sample card.
He ses the quantities of stuff as 'e's took there and seen other tradesmen take was something chronic. Tons of it! 'What was the parson's name? asked Harlow. 'Belcher. You must 'ave noticed 'im about the town. A very fat chap, replied Philpot. 'I'm sorry you wasn't 'ere on Saturday to see the corfin plate. Frank called me in to see the wordin' when 'e'd finished it. It had on: "Jonydab Belcher.
Mis' Sykes can tell you who sent what flowers to who for years back, an the wordin' on the pillows. She's got a rill gift that way. But I done the managin' behind the scenes, an' it went off rill well, an' I got the minister to drop a flower on Jennie's coffin instead of a pinch o' dirt.
Jim says there don't nothin' they say suit Katy 'bout its wordin', I mean. She changes it an' tells 'em what they'd orter said." "Why, the saucy little baggage!" the rocker resumed its swaying, and Mary Kelsey's foot came down on the porch floor with decided, rhythmic pats. The man stirred restlessly. "But she ain't sassy, Mary," he demurred.
"Is it anything like a porte-cochere? I KNOW what that is, 'cause my Lady of the Roses has one; but we haven't got that down here." Perry Larson sighed in exasperation. "Gosh, if that ain't 'bout what I expected of ye! No, it ain't even second cousin to a a-that thing you're a-talkin' of. In plain wordin', it's jest this: Mr.
I've been right fond of Luther, for th' short time I've knowed 'im, but what he see in that there Sadie Crane's beyond me. He's square. He looks you in th' face 's open 's day when he talks t' you, an' you know th' ain't no lawyer's tricks in th' wordin' of it. But she's different.
About this time Holmes, who as the senior colonel had commanded the district since Weitzel quitted it to enter on the Teche campaign, resigned on account of ill-health. Nott and Wordin, the lieutenant-colonel of the 23d, were on the sick-list.
"I can't say," said the Trapper, as he backed off a few paces and looked at the writing critically, "I can't say that the wordin' be exactly as the missioners would put it, and as for the spellin', I haven't any more confidence in it than a rifle that loads at the breech pin.
Thus was begun the "Mountain Grove Cemetery," which is now beautifully laid out and adorned with many tasteful and costly monuments. Among these are Barnum's own substantial granite monument, the family monuments of Harral, Bishop, Hubbell, Lyon, Wood, Loomis, Wordin, Hyde, and others, and General Tom Thumb erected a tall marble shaft which is surmounted by a life-size statue of himself.
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