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"I'll make it twopence," said his lordship "twopence and a screw of snuff." "I'll do it for a extry sixpince," Joseph repeated, doggedly. Noblesse oblige. There was a point beyond which the Earl of Barfield could not haggle. He surrendered, but it galled him, and the agreeable sense of humor with which he commonly regarded Joseph Beaker failed him for the rest of that afternoon.
I give you my word, sir, I couldn't take a little gal from a school, where she was gettin' a number one eddication, silver forks and towels extry. The gent looked pretty glum, for he was to sail the next day, and if I didn't do the job for him he didn't know who would, and he said that he was sorry to see that I was goin' back on him after the recommend I'd had, and I said that I wouldn't go back on him if it wasn't for my conscience.
And furthermore," he said with a certain air as tho he had reserved his trump card, "we'll make our trade in black and white for a ten years' contract at a third more wages than your railroad people are paying and tip you off regular on timber deals where you can make an extry dollar. I don't mind tellin' ye, Parker, that I've had ye looked up and I know that we ain't buyin' any gold brick."
"We ain't brought in any extry hosses," Pete was explaining, as they came into one of the corrals. "You'll ride your own to-day?" In one of the stalls Conniston found the horse he had ridden from Indian Creek, with his saddle, bridle, spurs, and chaps hanging upon wooden pegs. And in the next stall he saw the horse Hapgood had ridden. "Hasn't Hapgood gone yet?" he asked of Pete.
"I was sort of wishful to see how it would go down." "Oh, I don't mean that kind of waiting. I mean why are you a waiter in this hash-hole?" Dickie meditated. "There ain't no answer to that," he said. "I don't know why " He added "Why anything. It's a sort of extry word in the dictionary don't mean much any way you look at it." He gathered up the dishes.
"An' anyhow," in a more gentle tone, the gently positive tone which she had acquired through forty years of living with Abraham, "we hain't so bad off with one hunderd dollars an' tew cents, an' beholden ter nobody! It's tew cents more 'n yew need ter git yew inter the Old Men's, an' them extry tew cents'll pervide fer me jest bewtiful."
"I think this climate agrees with 'im." "Oh, he's well enough," responded Mrs. Starkweather dejectedly, "if he didn't make 'imself so much extry work. Grubbin' out that vineyard, now! I can't fer the life o' me see" "Maw!" called Idy warningly, opening the battened door with a jerk "you maw! look out, now!" Mrs.
Cribbens already owned and rode a buckskin cayuse that had to be knocked in the head and stunned before it could be saddled. "I got an extry saddle an' a headstall at the hotel that you can use," he said, "but you'll have to get a horse." In the end the dentist bought a mule at the livery stable for forty dollars.
Then cold roast pork and beef for supper.... And me obliged, by the way I'm built, to pay extry board. Sundays I always order me two dinners. Seems like a wife 'u'd act as a benefit there." "But there's drawbacks," said Sam, "and there's mother-in-laws, and there's lendin' a dollar to your brother-in-law." "The thing to do," said Scattergood, "is to pick one without them impediments.
"If I'd never had nothin' more'n that to bear I'd have as straight a back as yo' pa's got. 'Tain't the water buckets as bends a woman, nohow; it's the things as the Lord lays on extry." She relinquished the bucket and followed Nicholas resentfully to the house. "I never did care 'bout havin' folks come 'round interferin' with my burdens," she murmured half-aggrievedly.
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