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"Doll-faced," snorted the old man, who had not the least idea what Terry Temple looked like, not having laid his eyes on her for the matter of years. "Dumpy, pudgy, squidge-nosed little fool. I'll run both her and her thief of a father out of the country." "An'," continued Guy Little, "I didn't exac'ly' say, m'lord, as how this Terry Temple party was after him. I said as how he was after her!
Pretty soon, turnin' a little corner, I meets the Count and Countess of Milwaukee. She was a small lady, dressed in black, an' he was a big fat man about fifty years old, with a grayish beard. They both wore little straw hats, exac'ly alike, an' had on green carpet-slippers.
'I dinna exac'ly see what way ye're gaun to help it, observed my drover. 'By paying you here and now, said I. 'There's aye twa to a bargain, Mr. St. Ives, said he. 'You mean that you will not take it? said I. 'There or thereabout, said he. 'Forbye, that it would set ye a heap better to keep your siller for them you awe it to. Ye're young, Mr. St.
"'Wa'al, I says, 'the hoss ain't exac'ly what I expected to find, nor jest what I'm lookin' fer; but I don't say I wouldn't 'a' made a deal with ye if the price had ben right, an' it hadn't ben Sunday. I reckon," said David with a wink at John, "that that there foot o' his'n must 'a' give him an extry twinge the way he wriggled in his chair; but I couldn't break his lockjaw yit.
"How're they comin', stranger?" he asked, with no great expression in either eyes or voice. "Where's Brayley?" demanded Conniston, quickly. "He ain't here none jest now. No, he ain't exac'ly ran away, nuther. Brayley ain't the kind as runs away. He was sent for to come to the Lone Dog, where there's some kind of trouble on.
"Well, now, Rena," answered her mother, "of co'se you're too dignified, sence you've be'n 'sociatin' with white folks, to be hoppin' roun' an' kickin' up like Ma'y B. an' these other yaller gals; but of co'se, too, you can't slight the comp'ny entirely, even ef it ain't jest exac'ly our party, you'll have to pay 'em some little attention, 'specially Mr.
He wa'n't exac'ly smilin', but the' was a look in his eyes that was the next thing to it." "Lordy me!" sighed Mrs. Cullom, as if to herself. "How well I can remember that look; jest as if he was laughin' at ye, an' wa'n't laughin' at ye, an' his arm around your neck!" David nodded in reminiscent sympathy, and rubbed his bald poll with the back of his hand. "Wa'al," interjected the widow.
"It's about a feller sittin' one day by the org'n," came a voice from behind John's shoulder, so like David's as fairly to startle him, "an' not feelin' exac'ly right kind o' tired an' out o' sorts, an' not knowin' jest where he was drivin' at jest joggin' along with a loose rein fer quite a piece, an' so on; an' then, by an' by, strikin' right into his gait an' goin' on stronger an' stronger, an' fin'ly finishin' up with an A men that carries him quarter way 'round the track 'fore he c'n pull up."
He bought two big squares an' gin me one, an' when I'd swallered it, he says, 'Guess you better tackle this one too, he says, 'I've dined. I didn't exac'ly know what 'dined' meant, but he, he, he, he! I tackled it," and David smacked his lips in memory.
"He made it up on the spot, of course?" questioned Hamilton. The Kentuckian shook his head. "He did not," he replied. "The boy thought a minute or two an' then said he'd wait until he was grown up, an' let him know then." "Although he had been brought up by the Beaupoints!" exclaimed the boy in surprise. "But surely it never came up again." "Well, not exac'ly.
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