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'I be glad. Her aunt sniffed. 'You ought to be as glad to take after one parent as another, if you were jutiful, she said. 'I dunna want to take after anybody but myself. Hazel flushed indignantly. 'Well! we are conceited! exclaimed her aunt. 'Albert, don't give 'Azel all the liver and bacon. I s'pose your mother can eat as well as schoolgirls?
And the big boys, as well as the girls and the smaller boys, for miles around, came in to learn what they could from Azel Dorsey. The most of the children studied only spelling; but some of the larger ones learned reading and writing and arithmetic. There were not very many scholars, for the houses in that new settlement were few and far apart.
Her cousin Albert regarded her with a startled look. He was in a margarine shop, and spent his days explaining that Margarine was as good as butter. But, looking at Hazel, he felt that here was butter something that needed no apology, and created its own demand. The bright blue made her so radiant that her aunt shook her head. 'You take after your ma, 'Azel, she said. Her tone was irritated.
'Oh! shut thy row with that drodsome thing! said Hazel with sudden passion. 'Look'ee! I unna bide in if you go on. 'Ur? queried Abel dreamily. 'Play summat else! said Hazel, 'not that; I dunna like it. 'You be a queer girl, 'Azel, said Abel, coming out of his abstraction. 'But I dunna mind playing "Why do the People?" instead; it's just as heartening.
But put a case that they're in the knockin' down style too? then I'm left in the road, and Miss 'Azel without a protector. 'Who's been knocking you down now, Gotham? 'No one, sir; I 'ope I know my business better, said Gotham. 'I speak of the h'inevitable. And Mr.
And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son. And Azel had six sons, whose names are these, Azrikam, Bocheru, and Ishmael, and Sheariah, and Obadiah, and Hanan: these were the sons of Azel. Now the Philistines fought against Israel; and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.
Eh! dear 'eart, the wood I could buy, and the white paint and a separator and queens from foreign parts! He made a gesture of despair and his face worked. 'You could have a new harp if you wanted one. Reddin suggested. Abel gulped. 'A bargain's a bargain! he repeated. 'And I promised the parson. He turned away. ''Azel, he said over his shoulder, 'you munna go along of this gent.
"Azel Dorsey presided in a small house near the Little Pigeon Creek meeting-house, a mile and a half from the Lincoln cabin. It was built of unhewn logs, and had holes for windows, in which greased paper served for glass. The roof was just high enough for a man to stand erect. Here the boy was taught reading, writing, and ciphering. They spelt in classes, and 'trapped' up and down.
Falkirk's nerves were not in order, they might have been tried; for Gotham certainly seemed to have borrowed the cat's shoes for the occasion. 'Why don't you set the table as usual? came pretty peremptorily from the sofa. 'Miss 'Azel 'ave sent word she was h'asleep, sir, said Gotham, with extra dignity. 'Then why don't you wait till she is awake, slowhead? as usual. It is not eight o'clock yet.
Falkirk's breakfast was at an end before the factotum unburdened his mind. 'Beg pardon, sir, he said, drawing himself up behind his master; 'but 'ow are your h'orders concerning Miss 'Azel to be h'understood, sir? 'Orders? said Mr. Falkirk. 'You distinctly said and h'indicated, sir, that I was to drive Mis 'Azel to and from, sir, if my mind serves me, said Gotham.
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