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"Well," he said, with quick, business conciseness, "what do you want?" Ezekiel was staggered out of his complacency. "Wa'al," he stammered, "I only reckoned to ask the news, ez we are old friends I " "How much do you want?" repeated Blandford, impatiently. Ezekiel was mystified, yet expectant. "I can't say ez I exakly understand," he began.
"Tak' the back door o' the cairt, for instance. The back door's only a bit o' the cairt, isn't? Weel, than, shurely the cairt's bigger than the back door." "You're haiverin' perfeck buff," says I. "The back door's juist exakly the same size as the cairt, or you wud never get it fessend on. Ony bairn kens that, gomitry or no gomitry."
But I watched him, an' at the henmist verse, when they said terriple quick, "I wudna gie a button for her," I juist edged alang a bittie, an' Sandy's elba missin', he juist exakly landit pargeddis in a fisherwife's lap that was sittin' ahent's. There was plenty o' lauchin' an' clappin' whaur we was, I can tell ye.
I believe in the ready clink." "Oh, I see," said Mester Blair. "You get cash at the ship's side. That is the safe plan." "As you say," said Sandy, "that's exakly Bandy Wobster's wey o' pettin't. I believe in the bawbees afore the tatties leave the back door o' the cairt. Short accounts mak' lang freends." "Do you do onything wi' the Continent ava?" said Meg's man.
Thar ain't a woman a goin' ez is the ekal of Blair Rawlins' darter in nussin' a man and keeping him in fightin' order, but in matters like things that consarn herself and Cress, I begin to think, Mr. Ford, that somehow, she ain't exakly kam! Bein' kam yourself, ye'll put any unpleasantness down to that.
He paused and then cleverly directing a stream of tobacco juice at an accurate curve over the railing, wiped his lips with the back of his hand, and added, slowly: "Thar's another idea but I reckon it's only mine. Leastways I ain't heard it argued by anybody." "What is that?" asked Demorest. "Wa'al, it ain't exakly complimentary to E. Blandford, Esq., and it mout be orkard for YOU."
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