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It was stopped by one who came in at the right moment. You couldn't guess who it was." "It must a-been Shif'less Sol," said Long Jim, whose mind ran to physical deeds. "I guess he sent a bullet right into the middle uv that rascal crew. Sol's the boy to be right on the spot when he's needed." Henry laughed. "No, Jim," he said. "That's a pretty wild guess.
"'Tis a question I've a-been daggin' to ax'ee ever since it woke me up in the night to spekilate thereon. For I felt it very curious there shud he three Zebedee Minardses i' this parish a-drawin' separate breath at the same time." "Iss, 'tis an out-o'-the-way fact." "A stirrin' age, when such things befall!
It was foolish of me to go off that way; but I couldn't seem to help it. It all got black in front of me, and well, I just keeled over." "I should say you did," spoke Mr. Peterson. "An' ef he hadn't a-been there to cotch yo' all," put in Eradicate, "yo' all suah would hab hit de ground mighty hard." "That's two services he did for me today," said Tom, as he managed to sit up.
"Joseph," she said, planting herself opposite to him, and speaking with alarming solemnity, "we've a-been wed now farty year come Lady Day. Have I bin a good wife to 'ee, or have I not?" "Why, in course," Joseph was beginning, when he suddenly broke off. "What's the new colt standing in the cart-shed for?" "Never you mind the new colt attend to I! Have I been a good wife to 'ee, or have I not?"
But there was one question she had omitted and must yet ask. "You said, jus' now, you used to play by the sea, somewheres beneath that line o' white houses you was tellin' of. Well, you couldn' a-got down there on your own, at that age could yer, now? W'ich means you must a-been carried." "I suppose so." "No supposin' about it. You must a-been.
"You, ready to die for the quire," said Bowman reproachfully, "to stick up for the quire's enemy, William!" "Nobody will feel the loss of our church-work so much as I," said the old man firmly; "that you d'all know. I've a-been in the quire man and boy ever since I was a chiel of eleven.
The interrupted anecdote went on to a finish and the men trooped out and left the prodigal alone with his hash. When that young man reached the bunkhouse Frisco was indulging in a reminiscence. Reddy got only the last of it, but that did not contribute to his serenity. "Yep! When I was working on the Silver Dollar. Must a-been three years ago, I reckon, when Jerry Miller got that chapping."
"Why, ef it hain't Mis' Dawson, as I'm alive! Whar on earth are you bound fer?" "Jest come over fer a day ur so," was the reply. "I thought some o' stoppin' at the hotel, but, on second thought, I 'lowed you an' Luke mought think strange ef I did, so heer I am." "I've al'ays got room fer a old neighbor, an' you'd a-been lonely at the hotel. I'm glad you come, but " Mrs.
"Law!" said Captain Kittridge, "I've met 'em bigger than all the colleges up to Brunswick, great white bears on 'em, hungry as Time in the Primer. Once we came kersmash on to one of 'em, and if the Flying Betsey hadn't been made of whalebone and injer-rubber, she'd a-been stove all to pieces.
'Tis just one wake ago this day I helped ye lay out the third floor, back. A pretty slip of a colleen she was to be killin' herself wid the gas a swate little face she had, Mrs. Purdy, ma'am." "She'd a-been called handsome, as you say," said Mrs. Purdy, assenting but critical, "but for that mole she had a-growin' by her left eyebrow. Do fill up your glass again, Mrs. McCool."
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