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"Well, they won't! it's just a piece of devilment started by Susan Walton to pretend she's earnin' her salary as trustee of that fool Fund the Mosely woman left. She's puttin' the Adams girl up to this. 'Tain't nothin'. Susan Walton ain't the husband of my wife nor the head of my family. What I say goes in my house!" "I don't know, things is gittin' mighty queer, especially the women.
"I thought I saw Jinnie come in," she hesitated Then realizing something was wrong, her eyes fell upon the stricken girl. "She was just earnin' a little sausage by dancin'," the butcher excused. Peggy stared and stared, stunned for the moment. The hangdog expression on Maudlin's face expressed his crime better than words would have done.
Are you Talbot's boy?" "Nope. I'm a Grigger, an' live over in the holler, yonder." "What are you doing here?" "Earnin' two bits a week." "How?" "Lookin' after the place." "Very well. Mr. Morrison has given us permission to use the Lodge while he is away, so unlock the doors and help get the baggage in." The boy notched the stick with his knife, using great care.
"But we didn't think o' that when we manned the windlass-brakes on the Miss Jim Buck, I outside Beau-fort Harbor, with Fort Macon heavin' hot shot at our stern, an' a livin' gale atop of all. Where was you then, Disko?" "Jest here, or hereabouts," Disko replied, "earnin' my bread on the deep waters, an' dodgin' Reb privateers.
It's a most curious feelin'. First of all it makes you want to pull off your coat and turn a hand to anything, from breakin' stones to playing the fiddle it don't matter what, so long as you sweat an' feel you're earnin' money. Why, just take a look at my business card!"
But your five thousand will be put to your credit in Kenduskeag Bank the next day after you sign our papers, and your salary with us will begin the minute the ink is dry. You'll have double pay for a while, but I reckon you'll be earnin' it." He chuckled once more.
It seems only a few days ago that you was a little scrub of a chap, runnin' 'round town and pickin' up your livin'. And a very good and honest livin' you picked up, too. Now, here you are, a nicely dressed, tall, handsome young man, with a snug little fortun' all of your own earnin', not to mention your bein' the adopted son of that splendid old gentleman, Myndert Van Quintem.
"That," says Judson, "is a matter which Mr. Gordon seems to have left wholly to you." "Eh?" says I, doin' the gawp act sudden on my own account. "Well, post me for a Bush League yannigan if it don't listen that way! Then I can see where I'll be earnin' my five per cent. all right, and yet some! Referee for a kind deeds campaign! Good night, Sister Sue!
She's the sort of girl who wouldn't think twice of telling you to do a thing yourself, and you've made an awful fool of her by making so much of her. Them things of girls earnin' their own livin' ought to be kept in their place more," was the utterance of a woman who believed herself a staunch advocate for the freedom of her sex; but when Mrs Bray spoke of sex she meant self.
And that is why," sez he, "that wimmen have all through the ages been allowed to do most all the hard work in the church such as raisin' money for church work earnin' money in all sorts of ways to carry on the different kinds of charity work connected with it teachin' the children, nursin' the sick, carryin' on hospital work, etc., etc.
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