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Cullom: "I told David that I was ever so much obliged to him, but I didn't want a dimun' more'n a cat wanted a flag, an' I thought it was jest throwin' away money. But he would have it said I c'd sell it an' keep out the poorhouse some day, mebbe." David had not made much change in his usual raiment, but he was shaved to the blood, and his round red face shone with soap and satisfaction.
"'Oh, very well, she says, 'I guess I know what you want, an' goes over to another case an' fetches out another bunnit twice as big as either the others, an' with more notions on't than you c'd shake a stick at flowers, an' gard'n stuff, an' fruit, an' glass beads, an' feathers, an' all that, till you couldn't see what they was fixed on to.
I ain't one 's is give to idle words, but I will remark 't by the time I'd clum the fourth hill I hadn't no kind o' family feelin's left alive within me, 'n' when I did finally get to Knoxville I was so nigh to puffed out 't I c'd hardly find breath to ask where Cousin Marion did live. It was a boy skippin' rope 's I asked, 'n' he never quit skippin' for one second out o' politeness.
I c'd make a chocolate cake 'n' a king might eat off o' my cuffs 'n' collar when I was through, but what surprised me about your chocolate cake, Mrs. Lathrop, was 't you did n't get into the oven with it in the end, for I'll take my Bible oath 's you had 's much on you 's on any pan." "We c'n sit on the " said Mrs. Lathrop pleasantly.
"Just what he did," Davy answered, cheerfully. "I remember thinkin' that it was a mighty funny way to describe a feller, by telling how one of his shoes had been mended in that way. But, Thad, you know Bob didn't finish tellin' me about this track over here on the old island. If he had, I'd sure remembered; and then I c'd have spoken about it to you."
"Then Nick made a bee-line for the cabin, broke the pane of glass, opened the winder, an' crawled in. Here he collected all the valuables he c'd lay his hands on money, trinkets, jewels hundreds and hundreds of dollars' worth, an' packed the lot into the gunny sack that he found in that there corner." "Ah, I didn't remember that gunny sack," said Kiddie.
"Well!" drawled Toby, slyly, "I've hearn tell ye c'd eat a loon, ef 'twas cooked right. But I never tried it." "How do you cook a loon, Mr. Vanderwiller?" asked Nan, interested in all culinary pursuits. "Well, they tell me thet it's some slow process," said the old man, his eyes twinkling.
A fleet of 'em floatin' over N'York, loaded with gas that white stuff y' can steer wherever y' want it. We could pull a hundred million from Chicago! We c'd take over the whole United States! Try that on y' piano! Me, King Jacaro, King of America!" His dark eyes flashed. "I'll give y' Canada or Mexico, whichever y' want. Name y' price, guy.
They were stationed right where they deployed from the junks. Men were put in guard over them. At Tien Tsin they had behaved rather badly, I was told by one of them, had gone on a Samshu jag ... a Chinese drink, worse than the worst American "rot-gut." ... "Wisht I c'd git off the dock an' rustle up another drink somewheres."
"Him an' that hired man o' his, they have took more stuff over to them Rooms than you c'd shake a stick at! I never see nothing like it never! Waxed that floor, they have, and put more mats onto it fur and colored. An' the stuff oh, Lord!
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