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For three miles down the lake no one spoke; but when the boat scraped the shore in front of his hut Lon broke the silence. "It weren't a bad haul tonight, were it, Lem?" he said almost jovially. "And tomorry ye come up to the shanty for the dividin'. Ye know I wouldn't cheat a hair o' yer head, don't ye, Lem?" "Yep, ye bet I know it!
"It will maybe help ye gin a' tell ye anither tale, an' though it be o' humble life, yet oor hearts are the same in the castle and the cottar's hoose, wi' the same cup o' sorrow tae drink an' the same croon o' joy tae wear, an' the same dividin' o' roads for oor trial.
It seems, though, that this Wells party had been sort of a partner of Pyramid's back in the early days. Some sort of a buyers' pool for Eastern coal deliveries, I believe it was, that Hackett had got into accidental and nursed along until he found himself dividin' the cream of the profits with only half a dozen others.
"Some colonists fifty miles north is all." "That's 'bout right." He turned to the others. "Say mates, this is how I figure. We can't go on no long cruise with all those bloody rats in the hold. They're bound ter find some way out if we give 'em time 'nough. Fer as I'm concerned, I'm fer dividin' up whut we've got, and ter hell with piratin'. What 'er yer say, mates?
Your clerk 't she eloped with, I says, 'once give me a nickel three cent piece in place of a dime, I says, ''n' up to the first washin' o' them stockin's I never so much 's breathed a suspicion of your mebbe dividin' that seven cents with him.
The next day Melissa turned her gray eyes with a vague, kindling interest toward the "volunteer barley-patch." Two or three points of white gleamed upon it in the afternoon sun. She mused upon them speculatively for awhile, and then consulted Lysander. "I reckon it's the survey stakes, M'lissy," he said kindly. "Forrester's dividin' it up, as he said.
Er er Where is it, Phin?" Phineas burst out laughing. "'Where is it, Phin?" he repeated, mockingly. "By godfreys mighty, I believe you do know where 'tis, Shavin's! You ain't gettin' any of it, are you? You ain't dividin' up with the blasted jailbird?" Jed was very pale. His voice shook as he essayed to speak. "Wh-what jailbird?" he faltered. "What do you mean?
"So I comes up to where he were; and then I noticed as he were wet through, just as I were, and looking regular wore out. 'Snarley, he sez to me, 'you carry your cross like a man. 'I learnt that from you, Master, I sez; 'but you look as though yours had been a bit too heavy for you this time. 'We've had terrible work to-day, he sez; 'we've been dividin' the sheep from the goats.
Fulsom, from between puckered lips; "she didn't lose no money off Andrew Bolton." "An' she didn't get none, neither, when it come t' dividin' up," Mrs. Mixter reminded her. "That's so," assented Mrs. Fulsom, as she followed in pretty Mrs. Mixter's wake to greet the newly-married pair. "My! ain't you proud o' her," whispered Abby Daggett to Maria Dodge.
"She said when they was gettin' ready for the convention an' dividin' up celebrities among themselves that she just took me right off. She said as she was goin' to give a lunch for me an' a dinner for me an' I don't know what all. She was still talkin' when the carriage stopped at a hotel.
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