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Updated: June 22, 2025
When he was about twenty-one he went West as a teacher; and from that day on his career has been upward. We were eating breakfast one morning late in August that summer when through an open window a queer, cracked voice addressed the old Squire: "Don't want to disturb ye at your meals, Squire, but I've come over to see if I can't borry a boy to hark fer me."
"But she says she would overlook everything except Hen's keeping a secret drawer in his chiffonier. It seems Hen has gone and locked that bottom drawer and Agnes can't either buy or borry a key that will open it. And she can't find where Hen has hid his, try as she may.
"Well, I'm uncommon glad you look at it in that reasonable light," says Tummels; "for, the man being your own nephew, so to speak, I didn' like to borry your horse an' trap to use against 'en without lettin' 'ee know the whole truth." "I wish," says Bessie, "you wouldn' keep castin' it in my teeth or what does dooty for 'em that the man's my nephew.
"They're about all named Todd or Ward round here but one, and his name is Todd Ward Brackett, and he's due next. And they're all tryin' to borry money off'm me and sell me spavined hosses. Now, let's see if they can take a hint." He tentatively wriggled the toe some more, and groaned. "The Todds and the Wards better keep away from me."
"Hain't neither of us had our hair cut since we started on the Tullyhomy campaign, and I think I look like the Wild Man from Borneo. I think I know a feller that has a pair o' shears that I kin borry." The shears were found and borrowed. Then ensued a discussion as to the style of the cut.
Ef he wuz ter go ter heben an' foun' dat he couldn't borry some angel's harp, he wouldn't stay dar. I 'spize ter see er pusson all de time wantin' suthin'." "You don't borrow, do you?" Tom asked, and he answered: "Who, me? No, suh. I earns all I gits ef not befo', afterwards. Jest ez sho ez er pusson gibs me suthin' I gwine earn it."
She'd take her nap like it was a pill, er somethin', and then be wide awake an' ready fer her afternoon freshenin', an' then she'd watch fer the stage to bring the evenin' paper. John, he hed a whole cartload o' papers sent, an' the day he spoke they was so many I jes' couldn't get my bread set. I hed to borry a loaf off the inn. First time that's ever happened to me either.
Addressing himself now to Dolittle, Jordan continued: "I 'ain't see you walk so biggoty in a long time, Brer Dolittle, as you walked when you fetched up dat five dollars. Ef dis heah 'd been a cake walk yo'd o' tooken de prize, sho'. "De nex' time dy' all gets up a cake walk on dis plantation, lemme advise you ter borry a five-dollar note f'om somebody dat don't know yer, ter tote when yer walk.
Seeley tomorrow and Lieut. Mather fixed it up for me to see him but I had to convince the lieut. that it wasn't no monkey business because they's always a whole lot of riffs and raffs asking Capt. Seeley can they have a word with him and what they want is to borry his knife to pair their finger nails.
None better. Knowed him all my life." "Got pretty good horse?" "Got none at all; expect ter borry Mr. Kettison's." "I'll go show ye whar the saddle be," exclaimed Meddy, with her wonted officious-ness, and glibly picking up the bits of her shattered scheme.
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