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Knowing that neither of them had halters on, he had brought two with him and now slipped them over his charges' heads, saying as he did so: "You've got to come 'long back with me and keep company manners, do you know that, you disrepu'ble gad-abouts? You ain't never had no proper eddicatin' an' now it's a-goin' to begin for fa'r. You-all are goin' ter be larnt citified manners hot off the bat.
"Talkin' about tater-bugs," he said, and he glanced at me with a preliminary gleam in his eye; "Bachelder Lot was tellin' me the other mornin, he said he was eddicatin' a couple on 'em.
What I mean," he explained, seeing the amused wonder in the girl's now wide eyes, "you kind o' need eddicatin' to git married. Y'see, when you get fixed that way you sort of, in a manner of speakin', got to unlearn things you never learnt, an' learn them things what can't never be taught.
He painted the surplus onto a man playin' on a orgin." She hesitated a moment, and then continued: "I'm agoin' to work reg'lur fer him instead of to the theayter. I'm agoin' to git his breakfast and clean his rooms. He'll pay me the same as I got. He's a sort of eddicatin' me too." "Why, how is that, Amarilly?" asked John in perplexity. "He larnt me not to say 'et' and 'kin."
"Yes, and eddicatin' them." "Educating them?" "Yes; teachin' them to read and write and do sums. One of our loggers ketched her at it when she was keepin' tally." We were both silent for some moments. "I suppose you know Johnson?" I said finally. "Not much." "But you call here at other times than when you're helping her?" "Never been in the house before."
Why they got as much notion how to act around a chu'ch as an unborn babe has of shellin' peanuts. Folks needs eddicatin' to a chu'ch like that. Eddicatin'? An' that's a word as ain't a cuss word, and as the boys of this yer city ain't wise to." "It seems rather hopeless, doesn't it?" said Helen, stifling a violent inclination to laugh outright. Dirty O'Brien was less scrupulous.
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