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"You see," said Abram's mother, twitching the reins, when at last the old horse decided to start, "I had to hurry away an' get in. I sh'd a-liked to a' set an' passed the time o' day longer with your Ma, but I didn't darst to. It's dretful to have a horse run. I couldn't never a-catched him in all this world, stout as I be. Land!
Mebbe 't was jest dyin' peaceful and quiet, and restin' after all that steppin' and climbin'. He'd a-liked that, partic'lar when he knowed the folks was sorry to have him go, and would allus rec'lect him. Mebbe 't was jest livin' on and on, int'rested and enjoyin', and liked by folks, and then bein' took away from the hard work and put out to pastur' for the rest o' his days. Mebbe 'twas Oh!
"He'd a-liked so much to hear you tell all about it, Joe." As she spoke she was pouring boiling water into a little teapot. But Chandler said nothing, and she turned and glanced at him. "Why, you do look bad!" she exclaimed. And, indeed, the young fellow did look bad very bad indeed. "I can't help it," he said, with a kind of gasp.
'You keep 'im out of my way, for it 'ull be the worse for 'im if 'e comes within the reach of my fisties. And with that we went along 'ome, the three of us. And the sun kept a-shinin' just as if there was nothin' wrong, and the skylarks a-singin' up in the blue sky till I would a-liked to wring their necks for them.
She stopped with a catch in her throat, and added more slowly: "I suppose everything's different, now that Toby is gone." "He'd a-liked to a-seen you afore he cashed in," Jim answered; "but maybe it was just as well he didn't. You'd hardly a-knowed him toward the last, he got so thin an' peeked like. He wasn't the same after we lost you, nobody was, not even Bingo."
I was on a pal's beat there, for a change, and he comes and wants his boots blacked. I knows the animal, but he don't twig me, bein' off my beat. I would a-liked to give the beauty a topper, so I would; but, bless you, where's the use!" "So you blacked his boots for him?" "I did so.
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