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Of co'se Mary Elizabeth, she ain't to say got Sonny's thoughts, exac'ly, where it comes to sech a thing ez book-writin', but he says she's a heap better educated 'n what he is. She's got all her tuition repo'ts du'in' the whole time she attended school, an' mostly all her precentages was up close onto the hund'eds. Sonny never was no hand on earth to git good reports at school.
'That's no what I meant. Christina wud never put up wi' Macgreegor lookin' at anither lass. 'Weemen was born jealous; but it's guid for them. 'John Robi'son! ha'e ye the face to tell me ye wud approve o' Macgreegor cairryin' on wi' anither lass when he's engaged to Christina? 'Of course I wudna exac'ly approve o' it. Mr. Robinson scratched his head.
"Wa'al," said David, "I don't want to tempt ye exac'ly, an' certain I don't want to urge ye. The' ain't no sure things but death an' taxes, as the sayin' is, but buyin' pork at these prices is buyin' somethin' that's got value, an' you can't wipe it out.
We were on our way to conquer the Nome King when suddenly we fell into the Tube." "Then you are enemies of Ruggedo?" inquired the peculiar Person. "Not exac'ly enemies," said Betsy, a little puzzled by the question, "'cause we don't know him at all; but we started out to conquer him, which isn't as friendly as it might be." "True," agreed the man.
"Let's see," said the boy thoughtfully, "a squid is something like an octopus, isn't it?" "Well, no, sair, not exac'ly," the boatman answered. "Bot' of zem have arms wavin' around, but zey look quite diff'rent, I t'ink. An' a squid has ten arms, but an octopus has jus' eight." "Eight's enough, it seems to me," said Colin. "And are there many of them here?
"'Ought to git married? says Parson White, scowlin' fust at one an' then at t'other. "'Wa'al, says Am, givin' a kind o' shuffle with his feet, 'I didn't mean ortter exac'ly, but jest as well kinder comp'ny, he says. 'We hain't neither on us got nobody, an' we thought we might 's well. "'What have you got to git married on? says the dominie after a minute. 'Anythin'? he says.
"Bribery, eh?" he inquired softly. The man flinched from the tone. "It ain't bribery, is it, to ast you to rout out jus' one line from an ad an' pay you for the trouble. My own ad, too. If it runs, it's my finish. I was nutty when I wrote it. Fer Gawsake, Misser " "Stop it! You say Morrison sent you here?" "No, sir. Not exac'ly. 'S like this, M' Wald'mar. I hadda get to you some way.
"Ye're right," he said, rubbing his hands briskly over the long hair of the breeches; "I did say that very thing. An' I'm a man o' my word. But it seems to me," and he leaned forward confidently, "thet ye ain't made exac'ly the best pick thet ye could." The little girl sat up with a new interest. "Now I've got sunthin' here," continued the cattleman, "thet'll jes make yer eyes pop."
I don't doubt thet he ain't constructed thess exac'ly ez the school-teachers would have him, ef they had their way. Sometimes I have thought I'd like his disposition eased up a little, myself, when he taken a stand ag'in my jedgment or wife's. Takin' 'em all round, though, the teachers has been mighty patient with him.
The child's mouth quivered and he hesitated, yet he was determined to tell the whole of the sordid little tragedy now that he had begun. "But spendin' too much time with him when I should be workin' ain't the worst. To-day I done somethin' that mebbe she'll think ain't exac'ly square; an' my mother believes if you ain't square in this world you ain't much worth while."
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