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"I donno," she added, "but I was foolish to try it. But I did want to get a-hold o' somethin' beautiful for them old ladies to see. An', my mind, they ain't much so rilly lovely as little young children, together in a room." "But, Calliope," I said in distress, "isn't there even one child you can get?" "No, sir," she said. "Not a one. I been everywhere. You know they ain't any poor in Friendship.
Purty soon I seed her back limberin' up an' I knowed, as the sayin' is, that she was our meat. All at once, still a-hold o' 'er hands, he turned to me, an' sez he: 'Go ax Brother Quagmire to sing "How firm a foundation" three times, with the second an' last verse left out, an' tell 'im to foller that up with "Jesus, Lover." Git 'im to walk up an' down this aisle this un, remember.
Her left hand was laying in her lap, sort of casual, and the old gent got a-hold of it and said he didn't know how to tell her how sorry he was for her. Talking from behind her pocket-handkerchief, she said such sympathy was precious; and then she went on, kind of pitiful, saying she s'posed her little Willy'd have forgot all about her before she'd get back to him and she cried some more.
"No, I wouldn't, neither. I'd take pocketin' in mine every time. It's as bad as dope; Corliss, sure. If it once gets a-hold of you, you're a goner. You'll never shake it. Look at me! And talk about pipe-dreams; they can't burn a candle 'longside of it." He walked over and kicked one of the fires apart.
But this," holding up another sheet of paper, "is what is owed us, and it is almost as much as the other." It was Shadrach's turn to groan. "'Tis if we could get a-hold of it," he muttered. "The heft of the gang on that list ain't got a cent and the bulk of the rest of 'em wouldn't have if they paid what they owed." Mary nodded determinedly. "There are some that can pay," she said.
But one day, oh, a long time back, I got a-hold of a magazine and saw a picture that picture, with the two girls and the boy talking together. I thought it must be fine to be like them, and I got to thinking about the things they said and did, till it came to me all of a sudden like, and I knew it was just loneliness was the matter with me.
As for Boston being too much of a fool to know what he'd done to start such a racket he was all mazed-up by it: staring straight ahead of him like a horse with staggers, and looking like he wished he'd never been born. "You all hear me, I tell you!" says the Hen, taking a-hold of Boston's arm sort of motherly.
Pretty soon he was all fagged out, and fell down panting; then he rolled over and over wonderful fast, kicking things every which way, and striking and grabbing at the air with his hands, and screaming and saying there was devils a-hold of him. He wore out by and by, and laid still a while, moaning. Then he laid stiller, and didn't make a sound.
When Cherry got a-hold of Hart and told him what the town had agreed to do for him he was that grateful being all worked up, anyway he pretty near cried. As it turned out, Hart's aunt come in on Hill's coach from Santa Fé her friends having gone down that way by the Atchison and as Hill had been at the meeting at the Forest Queen he was able to give things a good start.
The whole place, of course, right away broke into yells and cusses, and everybody come a-crowding into a heap some of the boys picking up Hart and carrying him, kicking feeble real natural, out into the kitchen; and some more grabbing a-hold of Shorty and taking away his gun.
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