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Updated: July 3, 2025
I think his books are still in the closet." "Thank you, ma'am. It'll save me buyin', and I haven't got any money to spare." "We shall give you the same wages, Andrew, though you will work less." "Thank you, ma'am. You're very kind." "Try to improve your time in school, as becomes the great-grandson of such a distinguished orator."
The men had ceased laughing. If it had not been for that unfortunate stumble . . . "You're sportin' a right good rig," said the foreman. "I aim to," said Pete quickly. "If I hadn't gone broke buyin' it, I'd ride up here on a real hoss." "Things are pretty slack right now," said Bailey. "Glad to see you but they won't be nothin' doin' till fall. Won't you set down? We're goin' to eat right soon."
Why, man alive, don't you s'pose if anything worth findin' had been found on Eunice's property she'd ha' told me the first one? An' me an' her livin' like sisters, so to speak, even sence I growed up, savin' the spell whilst Mr. Sprigg, he was alive. Two years I spent in my own house 't Mr. Sprigg he built, on his own piece of woodland 'j'inin' hers, and she buyin' it off me soon's he departed.
"A ken the penny micht be buyin' a hame," came in a drowsy voice from Sandy's crib. "'Twad be a hame in Aberdeen wi' trees an' flo'ers an' mickle wee creepit things an' Miss Peggie an' us "
To work off his feelings, he sprang up from the settee, put on his hat, and flung out of the house to walk down to "the krik." "Never you mind, Tillie," her aunt consoled her. "I'm goin' in town next Wednesday, and I'm buyin' you some caps myself fur a present." "Oh, Aunty Em, but maybe you'd better not be so good to me!" Tillie said, dashing away the tears as she industriously rubbed her pans.
"If they'd keep less horses, and more sheep, they'd have food and clothing, too, instead of buyin' both. I vow I've larfed afore now till I have fairly wet myself a-cryin', to see one of these folks catch a horse: may be he has to go two or three miles of an arrand. Well, down he goes on the dyke with a bridle in one hand, and an old tin pan in another, full of oats, to catch his beast.
"You did? John Kendrick? He's been out of town for a week or two, so I heard. Where did you see him?" "At the Centre depot. I was up to the Centre er buyin' a few things and he got off the noon train." "Did you speak to him?" "Yes, or he spoke to me. He and I ain't said much to each other what little we've seen of each other lately but that's been his fault more'n 'twas mine.
It's some two moons prior when one of 'em, which we'll call him the 'Astor Injun, takes a heavy fall out of the opp'sition by goin' over to Cherryvale an' buyin' a sooperannuated two-seat Rockaway buggy.
Next time I met her she tole me she'd swopped it for a dress improver. The feller she was goin' to marry didn't like the motter as comin' from me, you see, but the funny thing was she never said a word about him when she saw'r me buyin' the ring. Since then, I've kep' me money in me pocket." Royson took the morning watch, from 4 A.M. till 8.
I wuz jest hesitatin' between a ivory bodkin with a butterfly head and a ivory hook with a posy on the handle, when I hearn the voice of my pardner, seemin'ly makin' a trade with somebody, and I turned a little corner and there I see him stand tryin' to beat down a man from Tibet, or so a bystander told me he wuz, a queer lookin' creeter, but he understood a few English words, and Josiah wuz buyin' sunthin' as I could see, but looked dretful meachin and tried to conceal his purchase as he ketched my eye.
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