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"Oh, yes, Peters, she mout if she had been walkin' in the mud." "Yes, ah, hah. So I've got another plan." "Oh, I don't reckon you're slow, Lije, when it comes to gittin' up plans." "That's true. An' I'm jest a little slow about askin' favors, but I want to borry a thousand dollars, an' I don't want no time sot when it must be paid back, nuther. I want that understood."
"Oh, yes, she was up to our house to borry some tea, and Pa patted her on the cheek and hugged her and said she was a dear little daisy, and wanted her to sit in his lap, but when I wanted him to let me have fifty cents to buy her some ice cream he said that was all nonsense. He said: "Look at your Ma. Eating ice cream when she was a girl was what injured her health for life."
"Wall," said he, "ain't a standin' on my head," and speaking to Jasper he added: "Come to fetch yo' meal-bag home." "About when did you borry it, Laz," Jasper inquired, taking the bag and throwing it upon the table. "Last fall, some time." "Well, how did you happen to fetch it back so soon?" "Oh, jest got to thinkin' about it last month."
Ef folks could make der livin' longer gittin' inter trubble," continued the old man, looking curiously at the little boy, "ole Miss Favers wouldn't be bodder'n yo' ma fer ter borry a cup full er sugar eve'y now en den; en it look like ter me dat I knows a nigger dat wouldn't be squattin' 'roun' yer makin' dese yer fish-baskits."
Make friends with the Mammon of your wealth so that when you fail here it may receive you into a everlastin' habitation. Turn it into angels of Gratitude and Love that may be waitin' to welcome you. Do good with your money. Lend to the Lord," sez I. And Josiah wuz so pudgicky, he snapped out, "I didn't know as the Lord wanted to borry any money."
But I knew what a struggle had been gone through with when I heard Miss Pray say: "Car' Ann, if ye want to borry my ice-cream freezer I ain't a-usin' it for to-morrer."
He'll borry money er do anything yuh care to ask, except shut up that there cat uh hisn." "Well, luck may come my way; I'll just sit tight a few days and see," said Luck. "When that positive film comes, I'll have to rustle money somewhere to get it outa the express office, so we can make more prints. And "
Sometimes they remained on his hands a dead loss; sometimes eight or ten persons would "hitch up" and drive from distant farms for the coveted article, only to be met with the flat, "No, I'm all out o' yeast-cake; Mis' Simmons took the last; mebbe you can borry half o' hern, she hain't much of a bread-eater." So Rebecca climbed the hills to Mrs.
"Now, at last, I've got a kittle o' my own; and I'll never borry nor lend agin as long as I live in this here vale o' tears." Not long after this, a careless girl left my rival on the fire till the bottom was burned through, and the kettle was ruined. The next time the good woman came, her speech ran somewhat thus; "I spose you was to meetin' last Sabbath." "Yes."
But Ben was the youngest and smallest, and only led into mischief by the others. They never knew that the blacksmith relented when his turn came, and that he got a mere sprinkle in comparison with their total immersion. Then Stephen Ryder set out for home, followed by a dripping procession. "I'll l'arn ye ter 'borry' my tools 'thout leave!" he vociferated as he went along.
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