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"I know you would help father if the chance came your way; but it's my duty to take every risk, an' I count on doin' so even though we part company within the hour! Do you suppose I can loiter at a safe distance from the painted devils when my father is expectin' to see some sign that I'm doin' all I may to help him?"
At length, he asked him for the glasses again and, after looking intently, said: "Jest between the edges uv two clouds I caught a glimpse uv a man, an' he wuz wavin' a flag, which wuz a sheet from his own bed. It would be Jake Hening, 'cause that wuz his place, an' he told me to go straight on to the cove, ez they wuz now expectin' us thar!" "Who is expecting us?" "Friends uv ours.
"I reckon ye ought to know the car an' the man too. You was expectin' to see this man Jervice, wasn't ye?" "We were after we saw the car," Glen agreed. "Now, don't ye reckon that mebbe, seein' the man at a distance like an' being as you was expectin' to see Jervice an' the big man, you might just imagined they was what you saw?" "No, sir. It wasn't possible to be mistaken.
Had the reins round my neck, not expectin' visitors, when them hornets come at me and the hoss without even ringin' the bell. That team drug me quite a spell afore I got loose. When I got enough dirt out of my mouth so as I could holler, I set to and said what I thought." "Cussed the hosses and the doggone ole plough and them hornets and everything!" exclaimed Pete.
I have hard work enough to support the family, and little help I get from him," she added, pointing to her unhappy husband. "I'm workin' all the time," remonstrated Josiah. "You are unkind, Maria." "I could hire a boy to do all your work for three dollars a week," she retorted. "That's all you help me. I've worried along for years, expectin' Mr.
"Sim wa'n't expectin' that, and it set him all aback, like he'd run into a head squall. He took hold of his beard and looked foolish. Sam and Grace looked ashamed and mad. Cousin Harriet laughed one of her lazy laughs. "'Archibald, de-ar, she drawls, 'you mustn't speak that way. Now be nice, and play with Margaret durin' dinner, that's a good boy. "'I won't, remarks Archie, cheerful.
Or she'd catch a youngster and scrub his face with a wet end of a cloudy towel, or twist the towel round her finger and dig out his ears as if she was anxious to have him hear every word that was going to be said. No matter what state the house would be in she'd always say, 'I was jist expectin' yer, Mrs Wilson. And she was original in that, anyway.
I must say, too, that most of the steers were a little vague. But, then, you can't tell who's who these days, with so many ministers givin' slummin' parties and Federal agents so thick. When I sails around to the Plutoria to collect Amby and wife about 6:30 I finds 'Chita all gussied up like she was expectin' big doings.
"If we never had un, and livin' were always fine and clear, we'd forget to be thankful for our blessin's. We has t' have a share o' trouble in our lives, and here and there a hard knock whatever, t' know how fine the good things are and rightly enjoy un when they come. And in the end troubles never turn out as bad as we're expectin', by half.
I didn't come expectin' to be taken in an' fed, but seein' as it'll be some time afore I hev sich a privilege agin, I don't mind if I do." Spring had now come in real earnest. The days were balmy, the sun poured its bright rays upon hill and valley, and the snow disappeared as if by magic.
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