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I ain't no sparrow nor no spring chicken neither an' I don't intend to decide my affairs jumpin' about in a hurry, no, not even if you was advisin' me the same as Mr. Kimball, Mrs. Lathrop, an' you know how much I think of your advice even if you have yet to give me the first piece as I can see my way to usin', for I will say this for your advice, Mrs.
That was great, Bostil knew, and enough to win over any horse in the uplands, providing the luck of the race fell even. Luck, however, was a fickle thing. "I was advisin' Dad to swim the hosses over," declared Joel, deliberately. "A-huh! You was? ... An' why?" rejoined Bostil. Joel's simplicity and frankness vanished, and with them his rationality. He looked queer.
That is, I pretend I don't. And I do try not to. But I keep thinkin', thinkin', and wonderin' if 'twould have been better if I hadn't gone there to live at all. Hi hum! a man of my age hadn't ought to mind what a twenty-year-old girl says, or does; 'specially when her kind, advisin' friends have shown her how she's been deceived and hypocrit-ted.
And how he sealed up poor ould Dixon, the parish dark's mouth, at Barny Boccagh's wake. God rest his soul! It was talkin' about the Protestant church they wor. 'Why, said Misther Denis, 'you ould termagent, can you tell me who first discovered your church? The dotin' ould crathur began of hummin', and hawin', and advisin' the boy to have more sense.
Ha, ha, ha! If either them kids tries to ride Beelzy Hmm. But Chiquita, now, she's little but she's great. Pa and Matt claim she's worth her weight in gold. She's likely, anyway. An' don't fret, lady. They'll all be home to breakfast, an' seein's I've got that to cook, I'll hump myself to bed and advisin' you to do the same. If not, make yourselves comfortable's you can, and good night."
She listened to them, making no response, with slow tears falling from shut lids to the pillow. "'Tain't for myself I'm a-pinin', 'tis for Depper," she said, the parson being gone. "All the same, Car'line," Mrs Brome said, sharply admonishing, "I'd marmar a ward now and agin for myself, as the reverend ha' been advisin' of ye, if I was you.
An' little Mary Elizabeth why, she's took every last one of 'em an' she's feather-stitched 'em aroun' the edges an' sewed 'em up into a sort o' little book, an' tied a ribbin' bow acrost it. I don't know whether she done it on account o' the teacher's remarks or not but she cert'n'y does prize that pamphlet. She thinks so much of it thet I been advisin' her to take out a fire insu'ance on it.
But if I was a friend of yours, and advisin' you what was best for you, I'd say to you, 'Go home." His skull-cap drawn forward, and his face set and threatening, he leaned forward with his powerful arms on the table and spoke in his usual low, unemphatic way, and with his deliberate, huskily-musical voice.
"Hen-food!" exclaimed Billings. "You don't 'low that will make hens lay, do you, Pap?" "I ain't advisin' no one to use it that don't want to," said Pap, "but I bet you I'm a-goin' to feed that to my hens"; and he chuckled again. "Pap," said Billings, "you're up to some be-devilment, sure! What is it?"
That's all your brains are fit for if you have brains at all. Leave argification to men." "That's just what I was advisin' Duffy to do, an' not waste his breath on the likes o' you," retorted the boy, with a grin. The conversation was stopped at this point by the skipper ordering the men to shake out a reef, as the wind was moderating.
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