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"I dun'no'," he said to her, "as a man better feel too uppity 'bout becomin' a pa. It's an awful solemn undertakin', an' the more you think it over the solemner it gets. Seems to me it's somethin' like playin' the fiddle. There can't jest anybody rush in an' play a real good time on a fiddle takes a terrible lot o' preparin' 'n' hard work to tech them little strings to music.
He stiffened. "An' you expect to hold my herd here until Lester gets back?" he said, slowly. "Yep," said the other, shortly. "You can't do it!" declared Sanderson. "I know the law, an' you can't hold a man's cattle that long without becomin' liable for damages." "We'll be liable," grinned the sheriff.
His wife was a common scold an' led him th' life he desarved. They niver leave th' ladies out iv these stories iv th' gr-reat. A woman that marries a janius has a fine chance iv her false hair becomin' more immortal thin his gr-reatest deed.
And Josiah wanted me to know immegietly that I, too, could have had the privilege if I had been a more single woman, of becomin' a deaconess, and have had the chance of workin' all my hull life for the meetin' house, with a man to direct my movements and take charge on me, and tell me what to do, from day to day and from hour to hour.
"Dear, dear me!" exclaimed Adams, with a look of amused surprise, "you're not becomin' sentimental are you, Sally?" "What is sentimental, father!" "Why, it's a it's a sort of a feelin' a sensation, you know, a kind of all-overishness, that d'ye see " He stopped short and stared with a perplexed air at the girl, who burst into a merry laugh.
"Even that flour on your nose is becomin'." "Go 'long, you old rat!" tittered Mrs. Look. "Better save all your compliments for your own wife!" "Oh, I tell her sweeter things than that," replied the Cap'n, serenely. With a grin under his beard, he went on toward the barn.
"Ever think of marryin', yourself, Mr. Spackles?" "Figgered some. Figgered some. But knowed they wasn't no use. Son and daughter wouldn't hear to it. Couldn't support a wife, nohow. Son and daughter calc'lates to be mighty kind to me, Scattergood, and gives me dum near all I kin ask, but both of 'em says I got to the time of life where it hain't becomin' in 'em to allow me to work."
Mountain, who knew by long experience when her husband was malleable, 'you know best, and you're the master here, as it's on'y fit and becomin' an' in the rightful nature o' things as you should be. The first effect of the oil of flattery seemed to be to harden him. 'I be, and I mean to be, he answered, with added surliness.
They wear the garb to make 'em look UNbecomin'! And he ups and tells her it's becomin' yet! That's a choke, Teacher! One on you, ain't? That there cap's to hide the hair which is a pride to the sek! And that cape over the bust is to hide woman's allurin' figger. See? And you ups and tells her it's a becomin' UNYFORM! Unyforms is what New Mennonites don't uphold to!
"Ef it was a mere matter o' buildin' houses and becomin' family men, I reckon that this yer camp is about prosperous enough to do it, and able to get gals enough to marry us, but that would be only borryin' trouble and lettin' loose a lot of jabberin' women to gossip agin' each other and spile all our friendships. No, gentlemen! What we want here each of us is a good old mother!
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