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Updated: May 7, 2025
Easter air a-gettin' high notions," she was saying, " 'n' she air a-spendin' her savin 's, 'n' all mine she kin git hold of, to buy fixin's at the commissary. She must hev white crockery, 'n' towels, 'n' newfangled forks, 'n' sichlike." A conscious flush came into the girl's face, and she rose hastily and went into the house.
"Yes; she said she felt her feet a-gettin' cold, and I must run. But I don't believe she's no worse." John stood looking down, ruefully. Suddenly the figure in the bed turned. "John," said a comparatively strong voice which made Bolderfield start "John, Muster Drew says you'd oughter put it in the bank. You'll be a fool if yer don't, 'ee says."
What made me start so what made me ask of Bill one time: "Are we a-gettin' old, Bill?" that wuz the Thanksgivin' night when, as we set round the fire in Bill's front-room, Cyrus come to us, holdin' leetle Lizzie by the hand, an' they asked us could they get marr'd come next Thanksgivin' time? Why, it seemed only yesterday that they wuz chicks together!
"Ye're just in time for the last carriage. It'll not come down but this once, again. It's a-gettin' too hot up there to run it Ye're the last one from the end chambers, too. Here, step closer!" Then Ralph thought of Conway. "Did Mike come out?" he asked. "Mike Conway?" As he spoke a huge fire-brand fell from the shaft at their feet, scattering sparks and throwing out smoke.
"Why, I've had things happen to me shipwreck, you know winds a-blowin' and sousin' the deck and a-gettin' out the boats and yellin' and shoutin' Seems 's if it ought to 'a' been excitin'. But Lord! 'twa'n't nuthin' to what I've felt other times times when it was all still-like on the island here and big so's 't you kind o' hear suthin' comin' to ye over the water.
And now I am goin' to relate the very singulerist thing that ever happened in Jonesville, or the world although it is eppisodin' to tell on it now, and also a-gettin' ahead of my story, and hitchin', as you may say, my cart in front of my horse. But it has got to be told and I don't know but I may as well tell it now as any time. Mebby you won't believe it.
"Now I thinks of it I might bresh up the recollections of a mornin' when I rolls over, blankets an' all, onto something that feels as big as a boot-laig an' plenty squirmy; an' how I shows zeal a-gettin' to my feet, knowin' I'm reposin' on a rattlesnake who's bunked in ag'in my back all sociable to warm himse'f.
I seen her onct close, when she was a-gettin' into her autermobile, in front of one of them big stores." "Well," continued the story-teller, "it was strange, but with all her diamonds and pearls and rubies and things there was one jewel that the princess did not have. And, of course, she wanted that one particular gem more than all the others. That is the way it almost always is, you know."
There, to tell 'ee the truth, I'm fair wore out, what with a body's feelin's and a-walkin' so far i' the sun, and the dust a-gettin' down one's throat wi' every sob, so to speak. 'Ees, my dear, I'm terrible dry, an' I would like a cup o' tea, jist about! They hadn't nothin' but ham," she added, "yonder at Brother John's. 'Twas a bit salt.
"I shall hanker arter the critter some, but he's a-gettin' too big to be handy; 'n' it's one comfort abaout critters, you ken get rid on 'em somehaow when they're more plague than profit. But folks has got to be let alone, excep' the Lord takes 'em; an' He don't allers see fit."
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