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For the moment his poise deserted him utterly. He could only repeat, as one who dreams: "Three hundred and eighty dollars!..." His momentary consternation afforded Pete the opening he needed. The room shook with his regained sense of prestige. "Yes, three hundred 'n' eighty dollars 'n' say, you look a-here!
'Course it don't hold nothin', 'cause the bottom's fell out; but it looks pretty an' looks counts when comp'ny's here!" The boy lifted his head suddenly. "Look a-here! I'll make it hold sumpin'," he cried, diving his hands into his pockets, and bringing out five coppers and a dime. "Youse jest wait. I 'll get a posy up ter de square. 'Course, we 'd ought ter have a posy, wid comp'ny here."
"Now, what trash have you been buyin'?" "'Trash'!" panted Jason, carefully setting the basket down. "I guess you won't call it no 'trash' when you see what 't is! It's books learnin', Hitty. I been readin' one of 'em, too. Look a-here," and he pulled up his shirt sleeve and bared a brawny arm; "that's all full of teeny little pipes an' cords. Why, if I could only skin it "
One mornin' ol' Dock Smith sez, 'Look a-here, Bill, I guess you 're a goner; as I figger it, you can't hol' out till nightfall. "Bill's mother insisted on a con-sul-tation bein' held; so ol' Dock Smith sent over for young Dock Brainerd. I calc'late that, next to ol' Dock Smith, young Dock Brainerd was the smartest doctor that ever lived.
"Look a-here, my good woman," sez he to the young woman with the baby, "as I wuz tellin' you afore, you must do sumpin to keep that child quiet. It 'll never do to keep all these folks awake like this. They 've paid for a good night's sleep, 'nd it 's my duty as a director uv the Han'bul 'nd St. Jo to pertest ag'in' this disturbance.
"Come on, here, you lazy freak, and work," cried Yan, and flung a handful of mud to emphasize the invite. "My festered knee's broke out again," was the reply. At length Yan said, "I'm not going to do it all alone," and straightened up his back. "Look a-here," was the answer. "I've been thinking. The cattle water here.
"'Sary, says the dyin' man, 'I must hev a plate uv them beans! "'Sakes alive, Mr. Holbrook! says she; 'if you wuz to eat any o' them beans it'd kill ye! "'If I've got to die, says he, 'I'm goin' to die happy; fetch me a plate uv them beans. "Waal, Sary she pikes off to the doctor's. "'Look a-here, says she; 'Mr. Holbrook smelt the beans cookin' an' he says he's got to have some.
He managed during this exercise, which everybody found perfectly natural, to get out of the crowd, and, without seeming to have any purpose whatever, he continued to put a couple of hundred yards between himself and his companion. "Look a-here, Muskrat," he heard Halvor cry, "you promised to keep mum." Marcus, instead of answering, took to his heels and ran.
"What do you mean?" "Well, now, I don't want him flogged. He didn't use his knife. You always said it was best to be friends with 'em." "I'd call it Jedge, it's jest so. Sile's right. I'd kinder lost my head. Look a-here, redskin, next time you come for hosses you won't get off so easy. I'll unhitch ye now, and let ye up. There now, Sile, shake hands with him."
"'I'm sorry you've got such a bad opinion of him, he says. 'I was thinkin' of buyin' him. "I looks around fur this guy's keeper they ain't nobody in sight. "'This ain't such a bad hoss, I says. 'Them remarks you hears don't mean nothin'. They're my regular pet names fur him. "'I'd like to be around once when you talk to a bad one, says the guy. 'Now look a-here, he says.
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