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His new colt run away with him last week and stove the mowin' machine all to pieces. 'Never mind, Maria! he says, 'it'll make fust-rate gear for a windmill! He's out in the barn now, fussin' over it; you can hear him singin'. They was all here practicin' for the Methodist concert last, night, an' I didn't sleep a wink, the tunes kep' a-runnin' in my head so!
"I d'no," sez Arville, "whether it will take so much more work or not; it is most of it run by water-power and electricity, and water keeps on a-runnin' all day Sunday as well as week days. "Your mill-dam don't stop, Miss Cork, because it is Sunday."
Hit 'peared to me like 'twarn' no time befo' all de folks an' de neighbors dey come, an' dey wuz a-totin' water, an' a-tryin' to save de po' critters, and dey got a heap on 'em out; but de ker'ige-hosses dey wouldn' come out, an' dey wuz a-runnin' back'ads an' for'ads inside de stalls, a-nikerin' an' a-screamin', like dey knowed dey time hed come.
Sez he, "I'd give a dollar bill to have such a stream a-runnin' through our front yard." I hunched him, and sez I, "Keep still; don't show your ignorance. It hain't nateral water; it is manafactured." "Wall, all water is manafactured! Dum it, the stream that runs through our beaver medder is made somehow, or most probable it wouldn't be there."
'Jacob! says 'e, 'damn your infernally ugly mug! says 'e; 'you bet me as that cursed brute would do for me. 'I did, my lord, says I, an' I remember as the tears was a-runnin' down all our faces as we carried 'im along on the five-barred gate, that bein' 'andiest.
"'As his obstinacy has destroyed the further efficiency of my colleague," goes on Ormsby, as he shakes down the ballots in the nose-bag, "I'll now conduct these yere polls alone. Gents who haven't voted will please come a-runnin'. As I states a moment ago, she stands thirteen for Old Monroe." "'An' I says she's twelve for Old Monroe," shouts Red River Tom, crowdin' for'ard.
"Slim!" was the only word Echo uttered, but the volume of love it contained told him everything. "You needn't say nothin' more I see it shinin' in your eyes," cried Slim. "Jack! Jack!" he shouted, "you derned idiot, come a-runnin " Payson hurried up from the arroyo within which he had been waiting. "Echo, I have not altogether failed in my mission.
And I sez, "You won't catch me a-sewin' by it, a-blowin' me away one minute, and then stoppin' stun-still the next;" and sez I, "How could we be elevated by it? blow us half way upstairs, and then go down, and drop us. We shouldn't live through it a week, even if you could git the machinery a-runnin'."
"They develops the power from the Royal Waterfall of the Little Bill," explained Cotting, with slow and pompous deliberation. "Mr. Skeelty he tol' me they had enough 'lectric'ty to light up the whole dum country fer ten mile in all directions, 'sides a-runnin' of the mill." "Who's Skeelty?" "Manager o' the mill, sir, an' part owner, he says." "Has he a telephone?" "Yes, Mr. Merrick." "Thank you."
"Well," said the bullet-headed man, stooping to blow the froth from his ale, "it was arter I beat Jack Nolan of Brummagem. The Prince 'e come a-runnin' to me 'e did, as I sat in my corner a-workin' at a loose tusk.
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