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"You're gettin' back at me for what I said to you the day before yesterday when you stopped off at Hazelton's," he declared. "All the same you'll know more about women when you've had more experience with them. When I told you that I'd been 'bossed, I didn't mean that I'd been bossed regular. No woman that knows just how much she can run a man ever lets him know that she's bossin' him.
The way the business was handled was somethin' like this: Cap'n Marcellus, your stepfather, Mary-'Gusta, he and Cap'n Shad done the outside managin', bossin' the men we had a lot of 'em on the wharf them days, too, and there was always schooners unloadin' and carts loadin' up and fellers headin' up barrels Oh, Hall and Company's store and docks was the busiest place on the South Shore.
I didn't know much about lumber, but the men there was just the same as anywhere else, an' we got along fine. I was bossin' a little ranch up in Idaho next June when I heard tell of a big strike in the Esmeralda range not such a great distance from where I had spent the week with Slocum.
The squinting eyes took on a sudden gleam, even a keen anticipation that could not escape the contractor's attention. "An' wud I be bossin' 'em about, them bohunks? Wud yuh let me do as I liked?" "Well," smiled Torrance, "not quite what you liked; you'd be under the foreman and me, you know." The halfbreed sighed. "That's allus the way. Suthin's allus foolin' me.
An' the other day, if I didn't find her sittin' 'fore the bed with the nurse actually doin' her hair, an' Miss Pollyanna lookin' on an' bossin' from the bed, her eyes all shinin' an' happy. An' I declare ter goodness, if Miss Polly hain't wore her hair like that every day now jest ter please that blessed child!" Old Tom chuckled.
"We put you in charge, Seldom, against the rule," said Bigpig Monahan, sternly, "'cause we think you've some good scheme in your head; but if you haven't, if you make a mess of things just to have a little fun bossin' us, you'll hear from us. Go ahead, now. You're captain."
Still Polena's got sense. She'll hold Hardee in check, I cal'late. I wouldn't wonder if it ended by her bossin' things and the Major actin' as a sort of pet poodle dog nice and pretty to walk out with, but always kept at the end of a string." "You didn't go to Higgins's for dinner to-day, did you?" "No. Nor I shan't go for supper.
I've watched 'er a gittin' hold of 'erself gradual-like, an' I knew there'd be an end of his bossin' some day. Gosh! I'm glad she got th' money! Noland was some fond of her." Jake stole a sidelong glance at Luther as he said it and waited to see if he would elicit an answer. When Luther did not reply, he added: "I'm dog'on glad I've been here.
"Me?" he exclaimed, incredulously. "You mean't you'll let me run it alone 'thout you bossin' the job?" Theo nodded. Carrots' mouth slowly stretched into a grin of mingled satisfaction and derision, as he exclaimed, "All right. I'm your man!" "Then be ready to go with me at half past six," replied Theo. Then he added, "Look here what's your real name? Tain't Carrots I know.
Mebbe she'll act like she's lettin' him have his own way. But she's bossin' him just the same. He sort of likes it, I reckon. At least it's only when a man gets real mad that he does a little bossin' on his own account. And then, like as not, he'll find that he's made a big mistake. Like I did to-day about hangin' Greasy, for instance." Hollis bowed gravely to Mrs. Norton.
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