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"She'll get 'em together, then, first delivery to-morrow." "Ay." "That puts us all square. She'll be amused, I shouldn't wonder." "I didn' try to be amusin' in mine," said 'Bias after a pause, puffing stolidly. "No more did I." Cai filled and lit his pipe in silence. His conscience troubled him a little.
I've not seen anything so amusing as you for a long time!" "This is my amusin' day," returned the boy, imperturbably. "I came to talk over things in general " "And what in particular?" Fifi was enjoying herself. She felt almost sure the boy was a reporter of a new sort, but she was frankly curious.
"Better go slow after that shake-up," he said quietly. "I must hurry," I answered. "I'm late with the mail." "These homesteaders are always in a rush. Shore amusin'. Act like the flood would be here tomorrow and no ark built." He spoke in a soft, southern drawl. "They have to do more than build an ark," I told him. "They have to make time count.
Of course, I've had my ups and my downs, like other people, preachers and doctors and storekeepers, they all have them, and I guess the downs are more amusin' than the ups, at least to outsiders. I've just happened to think of one of them, and I'll let you have it.
And only one fault, sir, and that not so bad as it is in some. He would have his drop of drink that is, whenever he could get it. Not that he spent his wages on it, except now and then after the children was growed up. But you see, sir, he was that amusin' in his talk, and folks used to treat him. "Well, sir, it was last Saturday fortnight, as I was tellin' you, he come home for the last time.
That would be adjective enough. Embryo spinsters preparatory spinsters p-p-probable spinsters. I have it! I have it! `Possible Brides against Probable Spinsters!" "Ha!" ejaculated Hannah, and drew her forefinger slowly down her nose. "Good! Top hole. Amusin', but injudicious? Shouldn't mind one rap myself; lead off the Probables with a cheer.
'Whin ye get through with ye'er barkin', says I, 'I'll throuble ye to tell me what ye may be doin' it f'r, I says. 'I see nawthin' amusin' here but ye'er prisince, I says, 'an' that's not a divvle iv a lot funnier than a wooden leg, I says, f'r I was mad. Afther awhile he come to, an' says he: 'Ye don't raally think, says he, 'that ye'll get a chanct to spring that platform, he says.
"My dear lady," said the Black Rat, bowing, "you grieve me. You hurt me inexpressibly. After all these years, too!" "A general crush is so mixed highways and hedges all that sort of thing and no one can answer for one's best friends. I never try. So long as mine are amusin' and in full voice, and can hold their own at a tile- party, I'm as catholic as these mixed waters in the dam here!"
"Yes," he said, "I love to hear 'em. They's very amusin', very amusin'." My own feeling can hardly be a prejudice, conscious or unconscious, in favor of what has grown dear to me through early and long-continued association. The question is one of taste, it is true; but it is not a question of familiarity or favoritism. All praise to the mocker and the thrasher! May their tribe increase!
All my precious relations either inherited it or married to get it. " "I assure you " began Mrs. Chichester. Alaric checked her: "Half a moment, mater. Let us hear it out to the bitter end. He must have been an amusin' old gentleman!" Mr. Hawkes resumed: " 'consequently I am not going to leave one penny to relations who are already, well-provided for." Mrs.
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