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I looked round toward the shed, an' thar hung the coat yit with nuthin' in the pocket. I didn't know edzactly what ter make of it, an' I jes' shunted the plank back over the paper in the pit like I fund it, an' waited ter see what mought happen. An' all the time ez that thar racket war goin' on bout'n the grant, I knowed powerful well whar 't war, an' who stole it."
He passed back by the secretary's office, and paid down the sum necessary to enter a horse in the next day's steeplechase. The clerk looked toward the door. "Don't you know the sun is down?" "De sun down! 'Tain't nothin' but de cloud. De sun 's a quarter of a hour high." Robin walked to the door. "What time is it by your watch?" "Hit 's edzactly seven " His back was to the official.
Then we'll bring 'em here an' Maudie can give 'em all she has. But first" her little sharp eyes rested discontentedly upon Genevieve Maud's family six dolls reposing in a blissful row in a pansy-bed "first we mus' remove those pomps an' vanerties." Grace gasped. "Take away the dolls?" she ejaculated, dizzily. "No, not edzactly. Jus' take off all their clothes.
It'll make her proud an' headin', I know, she'll gin her stepmammy a sight o' trouble, an' I ain't edzactly lamentin' 'bout'n that, but Ben'll take keer o' her all her life, an' good keer, havin' been trained ter it from the fust." But his mother had slept many a year in the little mountain graveyard, and her place was still empty.
"Edzactly so," he declared. "Ye never hurt nobody, did ye, Tobe?" She had turned very pale. "I 'lowed it couldn't be the wind ez I hearn a-hollerin'." "I hopes an' prays I hurt 'em," he said, as he replaced the rifle in the rack. He was shaking the other hand, which had been jarred in some way by the hasty discharge of the weapon. "Some dad-burned horse-thief war arter the mare.
"Wal, now, I don't know dat, not edzactly." "How old do you think twenty-one?" "Oh, la, yes; more nor dat, Cap'." "Born where?" "Right h'yer in Horsford, sah." "What is your name?" "Nimbus." "Nimbus what?" asked the officer, looking up. "Nimbus nothin', sah; jes' straight along Nimbus." "Well, but " said the officer, looking puzzled, "you must have some sort of surname."
"Waal," explained Ab, in his high key, "dad air mightily welded ter his cranky notions. An' he always leaves every tool in the same place edzactly every night. Bound fur me!" he continued in shrill exultation as he slapped his lean leg, "I know whar that thar leetle hammer air sot ter roost!" He jumped down from the window inside the shop, and cut a wiry caper.
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