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It's positive ridiculous. Wot needs provin' is, who set that brand on McLagan's cattle? That's the question I'm astin'." "Psha! You make me sick!" cried Smallbones, his ferret-eyes dancing with rage. "Put your question. An' when you put it, who's got to get busy answerin'? I tell you it's up to Jim Thorpe to prove he didn't brand 'em. If he can't do that satisfact'ry, then he's got to swing."
I don't care if they did hear me, I wuz on the step mostly when I thought it, pretty loud. Wall, from Miss Bombus'es I went to Miss Petingill's. Miss Petingill is a awful high-headed creeter. She come to the door herself and she said, I must excuse her for answerin' the door herself. She never mistrusted that I knew her hired girl had left, and she wuz doin' her work herself.
It was while I was restin' a bit that I got to explorin' one of the boat lockers, and dug up this Roman-candle affair that Vee said I might touch off. And it hadn't burned half way down before I spots an answerin' glow 'way off to the left. "We've raised someone, anyway," says I. "We'll know who it is soon," says Vee, turnin' the wheel.
I see a answerin' gleam of understandin' come into about twenty-one eyes as I spoke; one on 'em stood firm and looked hauty and cast iron, but I mistrusted it wuz a glass eye, but don't know, it might have been principle. And even on the man's small-sized countenance my words had seemed to make a impression.
"And that's what the newspapers in war time used to call er er oh, dear, what was it? camel seems's if 'twas somethin' about a camel " "Camouflage?" suggested Albert. "That's it. All that talk about me is just camouflage to save him answerin' my question. But he's goin' to answer it. What are you doin' away from the office this time in the afternoon, I want to know?" Mr.
And he tapped out the general call of the Service time after time; then strained his faculties in eager listening until he went hopelessly on. But he repeated the call. "For the lad may hear it and be heartened," he argued. "And if he's free to do it he'll answer though I think I'd break down and cry with joy did I hear an answerin' rap."
Father nor mother no, nor wife nor child, if I had 'em could hinder me." "What hinders you then, lucky man?" Seth smoked for a while in silence. "I don't think as I'd answer 'ee," he said at length quietly, "if I thought my answerin' would carry weight in your mind. You to call me lucky! when your way's clear, and all you want is the will." "We'll pass that," said Obed.
It was awful hot; you couldn't hardly breathe except when you got in front of the cellar door. Grandpa had no use for peddlers and never bought nothin' of 'em, and he kept answerin' the peddler short and carryin' slop, so as to keep away from hearin' him ask: "Any napkins, any handkerchiefs, any combs?" Grandpa kept sayin', "Nope, nope, nope."
"Cap'n Hedge," she said, "there's one or two things I must say right here. In the first place, I ain't in the habit of answerin' advertisements from folks that wants to git married; I ain't so hard up for a man as all that comes to. Next thing, I didn't come down here with my mind made up to marry Cap'n Burgess, not by no means.
"No," said Captain Cai firmly, "you haven't, or you wouldn't ask the question. He's the best man ever wore shoe-leather, and you can trust him to the end o' the earth." "I can't say as I know a Hunken answerin' that description," Mr Bussa confessed dubiously. "You've heard the description, anyway," suggested Mr Rogers, losing patience.
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