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"The raison why I came to you for it," said Raymond, who, evidently in this joke, had been put up by some one, "was bekaise I was tould that it's as good as new with you 'seldom used lasts long, you know but, such as it is, I'll borry it for ah, there now, that's one; all right, all right," pointing to the fragments of the meat and bread "I wouldn't ax betther; so, till the praties comes in, mind I'll take care of it; and, if I don't bring it back safe, I'll bring you a betther one in it's place."
She was so cheery. Even now she was offering me a piece of gingerbread. I ate it ravenously. Then I asked, "Where is Tip?" "He's gone down the walley to my brother-in-law, Harmon Shadrack's. He's tryin' to borry a me-yule." "A what?" "A me-yule. The colt was dead beside you in the creek.
"Sally ain't very well, this mornin'. Up all night with the toothache." Redfield had turned from them, and Abel now remarked, "I was wonderin' whether I couldn't borry a little coffee from Mis' Braile for breakfast; I been so took up 'ith all these goun's on that I hain't had no time to go to the store."
"Now I'll go and get some breakfast for Co." She returned presently with a sugared doughnut. "Where did you borry the milk and nut-cake?" asked her mother wonderingly. "I didn't borry them," replied Amarilly stoically. "I stole them." "Stole them! Am-a-ril-ly Jenk-ins!" "Twan't exackly stealin'," argued Amarilly cheerfully.
Well, Jabez knew I wuz onwillin' to have him tackle the job of warmin' our house with his new water pipe invention, because I had spoke my mind about it when he and Karen had been over to spend the evenin', and Karen come over the next mornin' ostensibly to borry a cup of molasses, she wuz lookin' wore out, she'd worked so hard the day before, doin' a big washin' and bringin' the water from the creek, and I sez, "Why didn't Jabez bring it for you?"
The sheep comes along an' I pick off some of their wool. An' towards me there comes an old sheep, with his eyes shet, a shakin' of his head. An' he'll lose all his wool. But you could turn him aside." "I don't know what you mean, sir." "Starbuck is the old sheep. You'd better help turn him aside. A word from you'll do it. I told him I wanted to borry a thousand dollars. He'll understand.
If I had a line from the agent, or a scrape of a pen, that I could show at home to some of the nabors, who knows but I could borry what 'ud set us up agin! I think many of them 'ud be sorry to see me turned out; eh, Kathleen?" The Irish are an imaginative people; indeed, too much so for either their individual or national happiness.
"No, I can't do that," was the deliberate reply, as the captain rose to relieve Dave at the tiller, "but you can all borry the book and read the historian's account of the battle between the Serapis and the Bonhomme Richard. I git so excited when I read that, I hey ter go put my head in a pail o' water to cool it off! Fact!
But one day as she was passing out at the door, a large bowie knife dropped from under her apron, and when her mistress asked for an explanation she observed that she was going out to "borry a wash-tub from the Mormons!" In 1858 silver lodes were discovered in "Carson County," and then the aspect of things changed. Californians began to flock in, and the American element was soon in the majority.
"Don't see nuthin' else you want to borry, do you, Laz?" "Nuthin' I can use. Good-day." Margaret stood near the window, meditating. "Now, let me see." "Want to know whar we was when he broke in?" Jasper asked, and she gave him a pathetic look. "I wan't a thinkin' about that." "Glad to hear it. Look here, it's a gittin' so a man can't set down and quarrel with his wife in peace.
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