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The New York Store havin' changed bakin'-powder onto us the week before the same redoocin' biscuits to a conundrum for a month after an' that bakin'-powder change sorter engagin' Billy's faculties wholly, he forgets about deceased an' his daughter complete; that is, complete temporary. Later, when the biscuits is done an' offen his mind, Billy recalls all about it ag'in.
And seein' she was so nice and kindlike, I told her fifteen shillings, instead of a suvveran; and she says, can't you let 'em for less? says she; and she was that pretty and engagin' that I says, well, for you I'll make it twelve and sixpence, mum, says I: and says she, you couldn't say 'arf a suvveran, could you? and says I, I'll ask my 'usband: and oh, John, I DO wish you'd let me take 'em at that, for a kinder, sweeter-lookin' dearer family I never did, an' that I tell you.
Therefore it is aisy to imagine Gin'ral Buller, findin' his position on th' north side ontenable an' his position on th' south side onbearable, is thransportin' his troops up th' river on rafts an' is now engagin' th' inimy between Spitzozone an' Rottenfontein, two imminsely sthrong points.
You'll never guess it. "'Give me three guesses and I'll win on the fust, says Nate. 'You two are engaged. "They looked at him as if he'd done somethin' wonderful. 'But, Uncle, says Gus, shakin' hands again, 'just think! she's actually consented to marry me. "'Well, that's gen'rally understood to be a part of engagin', ain't it? says Nate. 'I'm glad to hear it.
'These Gallic turns o' speech' which, 'tween you an' me, I'd always thought o' Gallic as a kind of acid 'these Gallic turns o' speech, says he, 'be engagin' the attention of learned men to such an extent that I think o' writin' a paper upon 'em myself, says he, 'for the Royal Institution o' Cornwall at their next Summer Meetin'. . . . I was considerably flattered, as you may well understand. . . . But that brings me back to my point.
Little Flora an' little Fauna playin' stoop-tag aroun' a whale or rushin' th' can f'r their poor tired father just home fr'm th' rollin'-mills, where he's been makin' snowballs f'r th' export thrade, or engagin' in some other spoort iv childhood! Go wan with ye!" "But who are they, annyhow?" "I make it a rule in me life not to discuss anny woman's charac-ter," replied Mr. Dooley, sternly.
You could save a lot by engagin' an old hoss that's got to be killed. I'm allers looking round in the fall of the year for some old critter just ready to drop. Wait till cold weather, and then, when he's killed, hang half of him up in the hen house and see how they'll pick at it. It's the best feed going for hens, and makes 'em lay right along. Doan't cost nothin' either."
I couldn't stand havin' her in the family THAT I couldn't stand. Oh, and if you don't mind, Mrs. Thankful, just don't say nothin' about the engagin' yet awhile. I shouldn't mind, of course, but Kenelm, he's set on keepin' it secret for a spell. There! I must run on. I've got to go up to the store and get a can of that consecrated soup for supper. Have you tried them soups?
Cook came in, and with a preliminary "Ahem!" which I knew of old meant, "I have an idea of my own, and I mean to get it carried out," said, "Oh, if you please 'm, if I might be so bold, did you think serious of engagin' the boy that's waitin' in the kitchen?" "Why do you ask, Cook? "I said.
He broke off as he halted the car in front of a rambling, dilapidated house. Marylyn Wade and Joe Ewing appeared in the doorway. "'Lo Sally Carrol." "Hi!" "How you-all?" "Sally Carrol," demanded Marylyn as they started of again, "you engaged?" "Lawdy, where'd all this start? Can't I look at a man 'thout everybody in town engagin' me to him?"
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