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Sarvant, ma'am," to Diana "how ye all gettin' on?" "Nicely, Biah well as can be," said Mrs. Pitkin. "Wal, you see I was up to the store with some o' Squire Jones's bell flowers. Sim Coan he said he wanted some to sell, and so I took up a couple o' barrels, and I see the darndest big letter there for the Deacon.
They work like tigers, every soul of 'em, from four o'clock in she morning' as long as they can see, and Mis' Pitkin she works all the evening woman's work ain't never done, they say." "She's a good woman, Mis' Pitkin is," said Abner, "and she's a smart worker." In this phrase Abner solemnly expressed his highest ideal of a human being. "Smart ain't no word for 't," said Biah, with alertness.
A little way on in his moonlight walk James's ears were saluted by the sound of some one whistling and crackling through the bushes, and soon Biah Carter, emerged into the moonlight, having been out to the same husking where Diana and Bill had been enjoying themselves. The sight of him resolved a doubt which had been agitating James's mind.
Wal, yis, naow goin' to walk to the cross-road tavern? better not. Jest wait a minit and I'll hitch up and take ye over. "Thank you, Biah, but I can't stop, and I'd rather walk, so I won't trouble you." "Wal, look here don't ye want a sort o' nest-egg? I've got fifty silver dollars laid up: you take it on venture and give me half what it brings." "Thank you, Biah.
And Biah could give pretty shrewd character pictures also, and whoever wanted to inform himself of the status of any person or thing in Mapleton would have done well to have turned the faucet of Biah's stream of talk, and watched it respectfully as it came, for it was commonly conceded that what Biah Carter didn't know about Mapleton was hardly worth knowing.
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