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'Governor's callin' for ye, Milly; and he told me to send you slick home to him if I saw you, and I think he'll gi'e ye some money; but ye better take him while he's in the humour, lass, or mayhap ye'll go long without. And with those words, apparently intent on his game, he nodded again, and, pipe in mouth, drove at a quick trot over the slope of the hill, and disappeared.

I come home to grind the scythes and found the house and barn empty Cephas said you'd driven up Saco Hill and I took his horse and followed you and saw where you went Long's you couldn't have a feller callin' on you here to home, you thought you'd call on him, did yer, you bold-faced hussy?"

I'd believe he's a hant if 't wasn't for his tracks they're the biggest I ever seen. He must weigh two hunderd and fifty. But he's a foxy cuss. That buck, shorely to God, has wings!" We were at table in the Carolina room when Matt Hyde appeared. Sure enough, he bore a turkey hen. "I was callin' a gobbler when this fool thing showed up. I fired a shoot as she riz in the air, but only bruk her wing.

"Now why can't I ketch hold o' this thing? It isn't a yard off me, I'll be snaked! And I dunno what ever she said that makes me think so, but I feel it in my bones, and no use o' callin' up words; it's one o' them things that comes without callin', when they come at all, and I'm so near guessin' I'll have no peace day or night."

"Worse than that, Mr. Jucklin. Alf " "What about him?" he broke in, nervously grabbing the chain. "Did you know that he was in love with Millie Lundsford?" I asked, now determined to be calm. "Well, what of it? Young folks are in and out of love with each other mighty nigh every day in this neighborhood. Is that Susan callin' me? Be there in a minute!" he shouted.

You'd be surprised the number that puts me the very question you've just asked. An' they tell me that 'tis with money the same as with letters. I read a tract one time, about a man that found hisself rich of a sudden, and instead o' callin' his naybours together an' sayin' 'Rejoice with me, what d'ye think he went an' did?" "Look here," said Nicky-Nan, eyeing the postman firmly.

He called it "goin' in his own conveniance," and I didn't say nothin' aginst his callin' it so. I didn't break it up for this reasun, thinkses I it is a conveniance for us to ride in it, for us 2 tried and true souls to get off for a minute by ourselves. Wall, Josiah wuz dretful good behaved this afternoon.

Well, it was one mornin' that his wife called to him, and he sitting very busy throwin' the shuttle; and says she, 'Come here, says she, 'jewel, and ate your brekquest, now that it's ready. But he never minded her, but wint an workin'. So in a minit or two more, says she, callin' out to him agin, 'Arrah, lave off slavin' yourself, my darlin', and ate your bit o' brekquest while it is hot.

And Drusilla sat down a very angry and ruffled Drusilla. "Orphan asylum, indeed! He'll be callin' it a home next. What does anybody want with a man in the kitchen especially a man who's got more hair under his nose than on his head!" She was quiet for a while; then she laughed softly to herself. "The Lord takes care of his own.

"Maybe there is some likeness," said Paul. "Maybe thar is," continued Shif'less Sol, in his cheerful tones; "but Tom Ross wuz right when he said the way them Greeks an' Trojans fought was plumb foolish. Do you think that me, Sol Hyde, is goin' to take a tin pan an' go beatin' on it down thar among the bushes, an' callin' on the biggest boaster o' all the savages to come out an' fight me?