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"She's eating up coal this winter," Hosea Brewster would complain. Or: "Give her a little more draft, Fred." Fred, of the furnace and lawn mower, would shake a doleful head. "She ain't drawin' good. I do' know what's got into her." By noon of this particular September day a blue-and-gold Wisconsin September day Mrs.
'Oho, so there was wine in 't! I fancied it was inebriated-like. But the mistak' I made was in tryin' to kep it when it was descendin'. A duke wud jist ha'e let it gang as if a wine jeelly was naething to him. But, d'ye ken, wife, I was unco uneasy when I discovered the bulk o' it on ma shoe efter we had withdrew to the drawin' room 'Haud yer tongue, man! Macgreegor, what nicht 'll suit ye?
And I'm prone to believe also that when the Germans stopped fightin' us with guns they begun fightin' us with other weapons almost as dangersome to our peace of mind and future well-bein'. Different parts of this country are in quite a swivet agitators preachin' bad doctrine some of 'em drawin' pay from secret enemies across the sea fur preachin' it, too, I figger and a lot of highly disagreeable disturbances croppin' up here and there.
"Them Osages, while blanket Injuns, is plumb opulent. Thar's sixteen hundred of 'em, an' they has to themse'fs 1,500,000 acres of as good land as ever comes slippin' from the palm of the Infinite. Also, the gov'ment is weak-minded enough to confer on every one of 'em, each buck drawin' the dinero for his fam'ly, a hundred an' forty big iron dollars anyooally.
"Oh, honey," he exclaimed, holding out his tremulous old hands in a gesture of appeal, while the fire-light flickered on a face on which affection and real sincerity were plain, "I's watched ovuh you evuh sence yo' wuh a baby, an' when I see dat han'some face o' hers was drawin' of yo' on, it jus' nigh broke my ol' brack heaht, it did. It did, Marse Frank, fo' suah."
Of course," he said, "if I was to go on as I be now I'd want ye to stay jest as you are; but, as I was sayin', you're to a consid'able extent independent. You hain't no speciul ties to keep ye, an' you ought anyway, as I said before, to be doin' better for yourself than jest drawin' pay in a country bank."
Corbett, observing Evelyn's soft white hands, decided that she was not accustomed to work, and the wonder of how it would all turn out was heavy upon her kind Irish heart as she said goodbye to her next morning. A big basket of bread and other provisions was put into the wagon at the last minute. "Maybe your stove won't be drawin' just right at the first," said Maggie Corbett, apologetically.
"'He-uh, uh! cert'nly not, he says. "'Wait a minit, I says. 'I can't sell him fer that because I said I wouldn't; but if you feel like drawin' your check fer one-seventy-six, I says, 'we'll call it a deal," The speaker paused with a chuckle. "Well?" said John. "Wa'al," said David, "he, he, he, he! That clean took the wind out of him, an' he got redder 'n a beet.
But I went in for reg'lar doin's bags of coffee or spice, or anything goin'. We had a dodge for a good while they couldn't make out goin' along soft, oars muffled, hardly drawin' a long breath, till we'd got under the dock, where I'd seen the coffee-bags lie, an' a man on 'em with pistol cocked.
Jan had a good many bills with him that evening his month's wages; and seeing it was the fashion round there to show your money when you paid for anything, why, he'd show them even if he was a square-head that he could carry a wad too. "Say, cap, but yuh must be drawin' down good coin?" "Oh, a boss ship-carpenter gets pretty good wages." And with one splendid sweep Jan emptied his glass.
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