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And now pretty soon the islands grew closter and closter together, and we wouldn't no more than go by one lovely one, than another more perfect lookin' hove in sight, and then another and another, each one seemin'ly more beautiful than the last.
"My experience is," observed David Harum, "that most men's hearts is located ruther closter to their britchis pockets than they are to their vest pockets." It is a tender subject, and one that causes more trouble than almost any other in the world. Employees who are trusted with the payroll should not divulge figures and employees who are on the payroll should not discuss and compare salaries.
I could see all the while that the varmint's eyes wur fixed upon mine, an' I never tuk mine from hisn; I know'd 'twur the only way to keep him still. "I wur jest prospectin' what ud be the eendin' o' the business, when I seed we wur a-gettin' closter to the timmer: 'twan't more 'n two miles off, but 'twur all under water 'ceptin' the tops o' the trees.
The ladies were very jolly, teasing one another, telling bits of fun, comparing work, and exchanging cooking recipes. Miss Gitty asked Margaret about her mother's family, the Vermilyeas. A Miss Vermilye, sixty or seventy years ago, had married a Conklin and come over to Closter.
You've got to go back, smell or no smell, sick or no sick," announced the General firmly, in the decisive tones of one accustomed to be obeyed. "Yes, Stonie," came in a meek and muffled tone from the apron, "we'll go back with you." "Can't we just set on the fence of the lot it ain't so far?" pleaded Jennie in almost a wail. "I'm afraid Pete will cry from the smell if we go any closter.
The woman ran to him and unpinned the paper. It bore a writing. They took it to where the yellow lamp-light shone through the open door, and read: "der Sir "FoLer harkls aL yo ples an gaRd him yoR best venagesn is closteR, harkls not Got 3 das to liv "We come in Wite." "What ye think, William?" asked the man with the baby, anxiously. But the woman gave the youth a sharp push with her hand.
"The winders?" sez he, lookin' closter at it. "Yes," sez I, "as the ornaments are all fastened on now there hain't no winders and no room for any." "By thunder!" sez he, the second time in my life that I ever hearn him use that wicked swear word. And I sez, "I should think you would be afraid to be so profane, you a deacon and a grand-father!"
"Mebbe they'll come closter next time," said little Pete with a shiver, as he trotted a little nearer Shorty. "Naah, they'll never come no closter," said Shorty, contemptuously. "They couldn't hit even the side o' the mountain if it wasn't in their way and no place else for the ball to go." Just then a shell screamed so close above Shorty that he involuntarily ducked his head.
Yo' ma 'd be skeered to spank you, skeered she 'd injuh yo' mumps. Don't you come any closter to me," he again warned, "you too little to have 'em." "I'll give you five peewees if you'll lemme tech 'em so 's I can get 'em," pleaded the younger boy. Billy hesitated. "You mighty little " he began. "And my stoney," said the other child eagerly.
I noticed that the top of this log had a dirty look, as if some animal had tramped about on it; an' on goin' up and squintin' at it a little closter, I seed that that guess war the right one. "I clomb the log, for it war a regular rouster, bigger than that 'n we had so much useless trouble with, and then I scrammelled along the top o' it in the direction of the brush.
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