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His reg'lar original father being absent to the war, I told him I'd be a father to him myself. He smilt a sickly smile, and said I'd already been wus than two fathers to him. I will here obsarve that fitin orter be allus avided, excep in extreem cases.
The tall clock ticked, an' that wuz all the sound there wuz, excep' when Bill gin a sigh an' I gin a sigh, too to lighten the load, ye know. Not a word come from either of us: 't wuz all we could do to set there, lovin' each other an' sympathizin'!
So, at last, I got a plan of my own, an' I goes up the steps and rings the bell, an' when the flunkey, with more of an air of gen'ral upliftedness about him than any one I'd seen yet, excep' Nelson on top of his pillar, opened the door an' looked at me, I asked him, "'Is Earl Cobden in? "At this the man opened his eyes, an' remarked: "'What uv it if he is? "Then I answers, firmly:
"When a fellah goes out huntin' and shoots a squirrel, do you think he's go'n' to let another fellah pick him up and kerry him off? Not if he's got a double-berril gun, and t'other berril ha'n't been fired off yet! I should like to see the mahn that'll take off that seddle 'n' bridle, excep' the one th't hez a fair right to the whole concern!"
'I dinna suppose she wud ha'e treated ye excep' she had mair money nor brains. 'She wud pairt wi' her last farden for ma sake! 'Ach, awa' an' eat grass! It's weel seen that men are scarce the noo. 'Mind wha ye're insultin'! 'I'm gaun up to the billet. Macgregor said, shortly, and walked off. Presently, Willie, a new idea in his busy brain, overtook him.
One of Kipling's ballads has delivered the aspect and sentiment of this bewitching sea correctly: "The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles So sof', so bright, so bloomin' blue; There aren't a wave for miles an' miles Excep' the jiggle from the screw." April 14. It turns out that the astronomical apprentice worked off a section of the Milky Way on me for the Magellan Clouds.
"'She's goin' clear out o' her head, thinks I, 'an' you'd better get her home with you, short off. So I put my arm around her, persuadish, an' I says: 'Elspie, I says, 'you come on to my house now for a spell, I says. But Eb, he steps in, prompter'n I ever knew him I'd never heard him do a thing decisive an' sudden excep' sneeze, an' them he always done his best to swallow.
"Nothin'," she murmured, "kin come closer to ye than these pretty things, excep' the love I stitched into 'em. When you wear 'em you'll think o' me, Miss Standish." At the sound of her name the girl started, and looked askance at her grandfather, who turned his head aside. "Who is this woman!" she asked in a low voice. The answer came from Gloriana, slowly and distinctly.
It puts you in mind o' havin' a pain in your side an' then gettin' in one big, deep breath when the pain don't hurt. In rill life I was lonesome, an' I hated Friendship an' I wanted to get away to go to the City to take music, or go anywheres else. I never had any what you might call rill pleasure excep' walkin' in the Depot Woods.
She was a great big creatur' that I'd never see excep' in red calico, an' I always thought she looked some like a tomato ketchup bottle, with her apron for the label. She says, when I told her, 'You see if she wants anything, she says. 'I can't climb all them stairs, she answers me.
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