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Everybody quit biddin' then. She stands there a minute, her eyes gettin' bigger 'n' bigger. I never see eyes so big 'n' soft 'n' dark. "'Would you do me a favor? she says at last. "'Fifty of 'em, I says. She gives me a little smile. "'One's all that's necessary, thank you, she says. 'Will you find Uncle Jake for me and tell him I wish to see him?
The superintendent would be a medical man appointed by Parliament, and he would hae men-servants to do his biddin'." "Not all men-servants, surely?" "Every one o' them. Man, geniuses is no to be trusted wi' womenfolk. No, even Robbie Bu " "So he did; but would the inmates have to put themselves entirely in the superintendent's hands?"
Suddenly she pointed with uplifted hand: "Oh, faither, I see oor Elsie's face an' the token's in her haun', an' it's a' bricht wi' gowden licht. She's biddin' us a' hame me, an' faither, an' Robin " and she passed into the homeland bearing the prodigal's name with her up to God. I gently closed her eyes. Donald stood long beside the bed; then, taking his son into his arms, he said
"'I've a engagement in the Oriental S'loon, he says, biddin' us good-bye plenty cheerful, 'but I'll be back among you-all sports in a week. I likes your ways a whole lot, an' I wants to learn 'em some. "'Which I offers four to one, says Jack Moore, lookin' after him as he rides away, 'you'll be back yere sooner than that, an' you-all won't know it none, at that.
"Well, now," replied Hanlon, "I'll be biddin' you good-night; but before you go, promise to get me that tobaccy-box you found; it's the least you may give it to me for Peggy Murray's handkerchy." "Hut," returned Sally, "it's not worth a thraneen; you couldn't use it even if you had it; sure it's both rusty and broken."
"I reckon we hain't skeercely got no preacher handy ter test her with," interrupted the master of ceremonies drily, and the other went on. "Ef she stays hyar 'twell midnight a sperit in ther guise of a black cat'll appear ter do her biddin'." On the ground lay the saddle-bags and the rifle; as yet unmolested.
There's no auction and no regular biddin'. The man is picked out and somehow he gets to understand what's expected of him in the way of a contribution, and he ponies up all from gratitude to the organization that honored him, see? Let me tell you an instance that shows the difference between sellin' nominations and arrangin' them in the way I described.
On my way I was overtuk by a lurge krowd of Mormons, which they surroundid me & statid that they were goin into the Show free. "Wall," sez I, "ef I find a individooal who is goin round lettin folks into his show free, I'll let you know." "We've had a Revelashun biddin us go into A. Wards's Show without payin nothin!" thay showtid.
"It's o' nae manner o' use to strive, ye see," said Andrew, relaxing his grip a little; "I've gotten ye, an' if ye like to do my biddin' I'll no be hard on ye." "If you will let me rise and stand before me in fair fight, I'll do your business if not your bidding," returned Wallace in a tone of what may be termed stern sulkiness.
"Pete leaned agin the platform-scales an' talked about the weather an' crops, an' then he said, kinder offhand, to Alf: 'I had a sort o' idea o' biddin' on that pile o' old planks, but when the sheriff lumped 'em in with that fine tent it let me out. I want to build me a cowhouse an' wagon-shed.
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