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"Look here now, Paul! You're pretty darn near talking socialism!" "Oh yes, of course I don't really exactly mean that I s'pose.
'Do hurry up, Panther, said Robert; and that was why Anthea did hurry up, and why the big darn in the middle of the carpet was all open and webby like a fishing net, not tight and close like woven cloth, which is what a good, well-behaved darn should be.
"It certainly could stand being pressed, all right." "Yes, perhaps it wouldn't hurt it to be pressed." "But gee, the coat doesn't need pressing. No sense in having the whole darn suit pressed, when the coat doesn't need it." "That's so." "But the pants certainly need it, all right. Look at them look at those wrinkles the pants certainly do need pressing." "That's so.
"So'm I!" cried Danny. "An' me, too!" asserted Chris. "An' me, too!" Jerry hurried to make that statement so that Danny could not say he couldn't go because he had not chosen to go when there was a chance. "No, you're not," Darn asserted with a sudden frown. "I am, too!" cried Jerry. Then after a moment he asked plaintively, "Why ain't I?"
"Lucky you," said Jane. And then one night came the tragedy. It was the spring of the year, and the story had been told for the night, and Jane was now asleep in her bed. Wendy was sitting on the floor, very close to the fire, so as to see to darn, for there was no other light in the nursery; and while she sat darning she heard a crow.
Why, darn my skin, when that 'reflex' met the current at the other end, it just swirled around again in what Captain Fairfax called the 'centrifugal curve, and just went round and round the canyon like ez when yer washin' the dirt out o' a prospectin' pan every now and then washin' some one of the boys that was in it, like scum, up ag'in the banks.
Wouldn't you think she was a canary-bird, to listen to her, and to see that Scandahoofian tow-head of hers? But say, know what she is? She's a mother hen! Way she fusses over me way she makes old Miles wear a necktie! Hate to spoil her by letting her hear it, but she's one pretty darn nice nice Hell! What do we care if none of the dirty snobs come and call? We've got each other."
He's getting too darn fresh. I'll stand for a good deal, but once in a while I got to assert my authority, and I jumped him. 'Stan, I said Well, I told him just exactly where he got off. "Funny kind of a day. Makes you feel restless. "Wellllllllll, uh " That sleepiest sound in the world, the terminal yawn. Mrs. Babbitt yawned with it, and looked grateful as he droned, "How about going to bed, eh?
'Salways th' way. One dog leaves a bone, and another dog comes along and goes to work and picks her up. Then the other dog he goes to work and thinks that was a pretty darn good bone after all. Then fur begins to fly, and old ladies yell: 'How cruel! Stop it, you big heartless men!
I found her crying the other day because she had torn her oldest frock, and the darn was sure to come in a bad place when the frock was made over for Gretchen! Think of Mary's crying because of having torn any thing!" Time flies rapidly when people are busy and happy. Days crept into weeks, weeks into months; before any one knew it two years were passed and another Conference day was at hand.
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