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The man's wife was puttin' up for some o' them children's homes, and she used to talk to Marm Marvin about takin' one o' the children and what a comfort it would be to the child to git out into the fresh air, and one mornin' 'fore she left she took Jed down in the woods and talked to him, and the week after she left for home Marm Marvin sent me over to the station same place I fetched ye and out she got with a tag sewed on her jacket and her name on it, and a bundle o' clothes no bigger'n your head.
"I was thinkin' " interposed Cyrus, mildly; but his wife swept past him, and took the road. "I dunno's there's any use in gittin' a real dinner, jest you an' me, an' you not workin' either. Folks say there's more danger of eatin' too much'n too little. Gilman Lane, though, he kep' eatin' less an' less, an' his stomach dried all up, till 'twa'n't no bigger'n a bladder. Look here, you!
"Gewhittaker, but ain't he a savage-looking old monster, though!" declared Bandy-legs, examining the dead cat; "a whole lot bigger'n that one we got in the Great Dismal Swamp, fellows, let me tell you right now. Look at the teeth and the needle-pointed claws, would you! I'm glad I didn't have to face this critter."
"But wouldn't you pull if you had two big wings that could carry you to the top of that big tree there, and away up, up in the sky, where you could talk to the stars? wouldn't you pull if somebody a hundred times bigger'n you came along and tied your leg to that post there?" The man, Perry, flushed an angry red.
"It'll work, Kit. And believe me, I didn't have a thing to do with it. It was his idea and I thought he was nuts too. But he can holler louder than I can and well, he's bigger'n I am and " Sid shrugged his shoulders. "He went and did it." "I want to see that thing for myself!" exclaimed Kit, jumping out of his seat. "Take over for a while, Tom."
"How old are you?" continued Frances, turning her attention pointedly to Mary Jane. "I'm five," replied Mary Jane, "how old are you?" "I'm seven, only I'm not very big for seven so you wouldn't guess it," said Frances, "do you go to school?" "No, not yet," answer Mary Jane, "but I'm going to some day." "Of course you are, stupid!" said Helen, "everybody does! Well, I'm bigger'n you are.
"It is hard enough work to sow and reap and thresh wheat in hot weather like this without sweatin' over fifteen able-bodied men that are jowerin' about a pile no bigger'n that." Dolly glanced at the round rosewood clock on the plastered wall and reached for the bell-handle. "My time's up," she said. "I wish I could stop my ears with cotton.
"'Tain't bigger'n yer body where it starts out fresh up in them mountings," the driver said, touching his leaders behind their ears with the lash of his whip. "Runs clean round Ezra's, and's jest as chuckfull o' trout, be gosh, as a hive is o' bees." And the swing and the freedom of it all!
"The fellows have got the bloodsuckers on him. Ain't he the booby? Told me he was fifteen and he's bigger'n you are. Screams like a girl." Jim stood staring, his hand shielding his gray eyes from the sun. Across the pond, the boys were doubled up with laughter, watching the minister's son writhe and tear at his naked body. Suddenly, Jim shot round the edge of the pond, followed by Phil.
And, on the other side, the Jampot's voice: "You naughty boy, stoppin' 'ere for everyone to see, just because it's your birthday, which I wish there wasn't no birthdays, nor there wouldn't be if I had my way." Jeremy turned from Mr. Thompson's window, a scornful smile on his face: "I'm bigger'n you, Nurse," he said. "If I said out loud, 'I won't go, I wouldn't go, and no one could make me."
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