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Updated: May 9, 2025
"How many last cents have you got, Kenelm?" she asked. "You was doin' your best to borrer a quarter of me this mornin'." "I've got more'n you have. I I everything there is here yes, and every cent there is here belongs to me by rights. You ain't got nothin' of your own." Miss Parker turned upon him.
She'll be good as ever in a couple of hours. Then you and me can start for Orham. "'In HER? says I. "'Sure, he says. "'Not by a jugful! says I, emphatic. 'I'll borrer a boat to get to Orham in, when I'm ready to go. You won't ketch me in that man killer again; and you can call me a coward all you want to! "'A coward? says he. 'You a coward? And Why, you was in that car all night!
I wanted to borrer a shillin' of him last week, and he wouldn't lend it to me." This Tom Wilkins was a boot-black like the two who were expressing so unfavorable an opinion of his character. He had a mother and two sisters partially dependent upon him for support, and faithfully carried home all his earnings.
"en wid dat he put out for Brer Coon house en borrer his slippers. W'en Sat'day evenin' come, dey wuz all dere. Miss Meadows en de gals, dey wuz dere; en Brer Coon, en Brer Fox, en Brer Possum, en Brer Tarrypin, dey wuz dere." "Where was the Rabbit?" the little boy asked. "You kin put yo' 'pennunce in ole Brer Rabbit," the old man replied, with a chuckle.
Lend a hand, Bill, an' go an' fetch the doctor. "Then I see his little game, but I wasn't going to run any risks, so I just mentioned, permiscous like, to the cook as old Dan seemed rather queer, an' went back an' tried to borrer the book, being always fond of reading.
"What were you going to do to him?" rejoined Paul, indicating the Italian boy. "I was only goin' to borrer his fiddle." "He would have broken it," said Phil. "You don't know how to play," said Paul. "You would have broken his fiddle, and then he would be beaten." "I would pay for it if I did," said Tim. "You say so, but you wouldn't.
"Or p'r'aps you could borrer some," ses his pal, in a soft, kind voice. "I'd lend it to you with pleasure, on'y I haven't got it with me." Sam shook his 'ead, and at last, arter the docker 'ad said he wouldn't let it go for less than twenty, even to save 'is life, he let it go for the nine pounds odd, a silver watch-chain, two cigars wot Sam 'ad been sitting on by mistake, and a sheath-knife.
An' I'll be whipped if 'Mandy herself didn't tell the heft on't arter 'twas all over. She wa'n't more'n half baked in a good many things. It got round somehow that the pocket-book was comin', an' when, I see 'Mandy walkin' home that arternoon, I ketched up my shawl an' run in behind her, to borrer some yeast.
After breakfast ther boys all went off ter ther wo'k, and Aunt Sue went ter a neighbor's to borrer some bakin' powder. I was sittin' on ther verandy when the schoolma'm cum out, and walkin' close up, says she: 'Mr. Jordan' waiter, bring me a brandy smash 'Mr. Jordan, says she, 'I want to thank you for all your gentle and generous kindness to me.
E. Stanley and Lord Gladstone will cling inflexibly to those great fundamental principles, which they understand far better than I do, and I will add that I do not understand anything about any of them whatever in the least and let us all be happy, and live within our means, even if we have to borrer money to do it with. Very respectfully yours, Artemus Ward.
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