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Updated: June 26, 2025
"I don't believe anybody in town but us trusts 'em," said he, in a whisper. "Well, I'm sorry for his folks, but he'd ought to be strung up," said the man. "Why in thunder don't he go to work. I guess if he was coughin' as bad as I be at night, an' had to work, he might know a little something about it. I ain't in debt, though, not a dollar."
"It's somebody to see you, Andrew," Fanny said, and Andrew tossed his paper on the table and went to the door. When the door was opened Ellen heard a man cough. "I should think anybody was crazy to come out such a night as this, coughin' that way," murmured Fanny. "I do believe it's Joe Atkins; sounds like his cough." Then Andrew entered with the two men stamping and shaking themselves.
Suddenly she caught sight of Black Prince, wrapped up in a horse-cloth, hanging his long intelligent nose over his stall and looking at her wistfully. "Why," she said, "I thought Sir Shawn was riding the Prince!" She put out her hand to fondle the delicate nose and Black Prince whinnied. "No, m'lady. The Prince was coughin' this mornin': and Tartar was a bit lame.
The Trainer's words, "The mare's coughin'," struck a chill to her heart. She could not speak the misery was too great but stood dejectedly listening while Dixon spoke of his suspicions of foul play.
"Will takin' the pledge," he asked her, "put a shirt to my back, a thing I almost forget the use of, or a good coat? Will it put a dacent house over my head, a good bed under me, and a warm pair of blankets on us to keep us from shiverin', an' coughin', an' barkin' the whole night long in the could?
'Enslowe would just 'a mended that bit o' roof of ours last winter, Bessie needn't have laid in the wet so many nights as she did, and she coughin' fit to break your heart, for all the things yer could put over'er."
"F'r th' same reason that the Irish rivolution failed, th' polis stopped it. Th' con-spirators met in th' park an' were nailed be a park polisman. They didn't run in th' boy, but left him alone in th' place which was where his father wanst fought a battle. As he shtands there coughin' he begins to hear voices iv soops that followed th' ol' Impror. 'Comrade' says wan.
Feed good on the hills yet?" "Pretty good." "I hear you got company up to the Moonstone." "Yep. Eastern folks, doctor and his wife." And Collie looked the deputy hard in the eye. "Oh, that was their machine I heard coughin' up the cañon last night, eh?" "I didn't ask them about that," replied Collie. "You're improvin' since you first come into these hills," said Tenlow, with some sarcasm.
I had a cauld sweat on my broo, and my hairt was beatin' twice tae ilka tick o' the clock, and what feared me most of a' was that the dust frae the curtains and things was aye gettin' doon intae my lungs, and it was a' I could dae tae keep mysel' frae coughin'. Godsakes! I wonder my hair wasna grey wi' a' that I went through. I wouldna dae it again to be made Lord Provost o' Glasgie.
When the trees began to cast slightly blurred shadows, because of budding leaves, and the robins hopped over the terraces, and now and then the air was cleft with blue wings, he became jubilant. "Spring is jest about here, and then uncle's little Dan'l will stop coughin', and run out of doors and pick flowers," he told the child beside the window. Spring came that year with a riotous rush.
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