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"Very good, sir," said Si, saluting. "This is what I call a puddin'," said Shorty, oracularly, as they drove away. "The Lord always kin be trusted to help the deservin', if the deservin' only keep their eyes peeled for His p'inters. This comes from not workin' yesterday and goin' to church."
And havin' said that, sir, I say no more, and I would not have said this much if I hadn't felt it my bounden duty to your father's son to warn him that most likely he was workin' for what he might never get, and so keep him from breakin' his heart when he found out the truth all of a sudden." With that Susan left me, without offering any assistance in making out a list of china.
An' as for inflooenccs, if you-all don't reckon the presence of a vig'lance committee in a camp don't cause a gent to pause an' ponder none before he pulls his gun, you dwells in ignorance. However, I'm yere to admit, I don't discern no sech sin-encrusted play in a killin' when the parties breaks even at the start, an' both gents is workin' to the same end unanimous.
'I ain't fit to, I says, ready to cry an' wa'al, he jest laughed, an' says, 'Nonsense, he says, 'come along. A man needn't be ashamed of his workin' clo'es, he says, an' I'm dum'd if he didn't take holt of my hand, an' in we went that way together." "How like him that was!" said the widow softly. "Yes, ma'am, yes, ma'am, I reckon it was," said David, nodding.
Yes, that was it, Campbell. Didn't the ole man have you and Campbell workin' sort of private on some glue proposition or other?" "Yes, he did." Adams nodded. "I found out a good deal about glue then, too." "Been workin' on it since, I suppose?" "Yes. Kept it in my mind and studied out new things about it." Lohr looked serious. "Well, but see here," he said.
"'It would grieve them sore, I said. "'But the crew would not hear o' stayin' and workin' her back under canvas. They're gaun up an' down sayin' they'd ha' starved first. "'They'd ha' starved if they'd stayed, said I. "'I tak' it, fra Calder's account, there was a mutiny a'most. "'Ye know more than I, McRimmon' I said.
She's got employment at a slop shop, and by workin' 'ard all day manages to make about one shillin' a week." "I beg your pardon how much?" "One shillin', sir." "Ah, you mean one shilling a day, I suppose." "No, sir, I mean one shillin' a week. Mr Scott there knows that I'm tellin' what's true."
There's even policemen workin' for it " "But it's their business to put down crime." Bubbles shook his head sadly. "The chief business of the society is to put down police graft in crime," he said. "But there's heaps o' side businesses. Harry West, he's one of us. He's way high up. I'm way low down. But when I'm called to do what I can, I got to do it. There's one member younger'n me.
"I! No; why should I?" He rang the bell. "Why have you not laid the breakfast, Jane?" "If you please, sir, Miss Ida was a workin' at the table." "Oh, of course, Jane," said the young lady calmly. "I am so sorry. I shall be ready to move in a few minutes." "But what on earth are you doing, Ida?" asked the Doctor. "The smell is most offensive.
That's the way a good many folks commence, I know, but they don't generally wait till they're out of their 'teens afore they start. I was workin' for Mrs. Philander Bassett at the time, and she says to me: 'Rachel, she says, 'you're on the mendin' hand now, wouldn't you like a book to read? I says, 'Why, maybe I would. And she fetched up three of 'em. I can see 'em now, all three, plain as day.
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