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He's a terror at bindin', but at pitchin' and shockin' and loadin' you're jist as good." "But, Tim, that's all nonsense. Perkins isn't such a fool as to hate me because I can keep up my end." "He don't like you," said Tim stubbornly. "But why? Why in the name of common sense?" "Well," said Tim, summing up the situation, "before you come he used to be the hull thing.
Man laws was made to keep us straight, I reckon; but when the Lord Himself lived on earth they wasn't quite as bindin' as folks try to make 'em now. A feller, in that day an' time, could be introduced to a new wife every mornin' at breakfast, if he could afford to keep a drove of 'em, and still be looked up to as a wise man and a prophet."
Well, now I know why he acted the way he did whenever Uncle Abner's name was mentioned. I have a feelin' at least I imagine there may have been somethin' else, somethin' we don't know and never will know, between Solomon and my uncle. There may be some paper, some agreement, hid around somewheres that is legally bindin' on the old sinner.
It's for this day week; no invitations, no cards, no flowers, no one's durnation business. There, take that home and chaw on it. Pharline, let's you and me go into the house." "I reckon there's witnesses enough to make that bindin'," muttered Cap'n Sproul under his breath. He bent forward and tapped the Colonel on the arm as Ward was about to step upon the piazza.
And Arvilly said she had took solid comfort a-sellin' it, though she had to wade through snow and slush half way up to her knees some of the time, a-trailin' round from house to house a-takin' orders fer it. She said she loved to sell a book that wuz full of truth from the front page to the back bindin'.
"You put his nose out of joint, I guess," said Tim with a grin. "Oh, rot, Tim! How?" "Every how," said Tim, proceeding to elaborate. "First when you came here you were no good I mean " Tim checked himself hastily. "I know what you mean, Tim. Go on. You are quite right. I couldn't do anything on the farm." "Now," continued Tim, "you can do anything jist as good as him except bindin', of course.
Says, if I'm willin', I can take as much as I can manage, and let it out myself for bindin' and closin', and he'll pay me considerable more on a lot than Robinson has, cash down. Now you see, J'rome, I'm gettin' older, and I can't do much more finishin' than I've been doin' right along.
"You did do that, Meehaul," replied Nell, "an' I know it; but what 'ud you think if he was so cut to the heart by your turnin' round upon his poverty, that he swore an oath to them that I could name, bindin' himself to bring your sister to a state of shame, in order to punish you for your words? That 'ud be great glory over a faction that they hate."
And he will keep us busy." "If I cawn't keep the two of you a-humpin', though you are some pumpkins at bindin', I hain't worth my feed." "But, Barney," remonstrated his mother, "is he fit to go about that machine? Something might happen the lad." "I don't think there is any danger, mother. And, besides, we will be at hand all the time."
"Here's yo' letter from the Fillippians, Mis' Virginia; Mr. Champers done bring hit for you all." Boanerges Peeperville fairly danced into the living room of the Sunflower Inn. "They ain't no black mournin' aidge bindin' it round nuthah, thank the good Lawd foh that." Virginia Aydelot opened the letter with trembling fingers.
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