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The only trouble is she'd oughter close her eyes too, for they talk 'most as well as her tongue does. Likely you've noticed that," he added innocently. "I eh " "Fur's that goes, your own eyes do somethin' in the speakin' line," affirmed Willie, bending to fleck a bit of dust from the appliance before them. "What!" Robert Morton exclaimed with alarm. The old inventor nodded gravely.
"He's got his dollar, and we'll take what grass our hosses kin pack away in their bellies. That kinda winds up the transaction, fur's I kin see." "I wonder if another dollar " But Applehead interrupted him. "Another dollar might git him warmed up so's he'd shake his danged head twicet instid uh once't," he asserted pessimistically, "but that's all you'd git outa him.
"Let's see the note," said David curtly. "H'm, humph, 'regret to say that I have been instructed by Mr. Lenox to say fur's the bus'nis part's concerned I might 'a' done my own regrettin' if I'd wrote the note myself." John heard David clear his throat, and there was a hiss in the open fire. Mrs. Cullom was silent, and David resumed: "You see, Mis' Cullom, it's like this.
Another storm coming up. Outlook bad." "Seems kinda onsportsman like, like bettin' on a sure thing; but ef you really insist, Moose, in the face o' this yere message, why you kin go as fur's you like. Mebbe a dollar 'ud suit you better, the way things is goin' now, than a thousand;" and the people laughed at the covert allusion to their previous wager.
Say, Sim, how soon could you land that shanty of mine in the road if I give you the job to move it?" "I couldn't get it up to the Main Street lot inside of a fortnight," replied Sim, after a moment's reflection. "Fur's gettin' it in the road goes, I could have it here day after to-morrow if I had gang enough." The depot master took the cigar out of his mouth and blew a ring of smoke.
"And if there's anything I can say to make you and aunt Mary Ellen come over here" Aunt Luceba shook her head ponderously, and clucked at the horse. "Fur's I'm concerned, it's settled now. I'd come, an' be glad. But there's Mary Ellen! Go 'long!" She went jangling away along the country road to the music of old-fashioned bells.
I think I should declare my independence. Really, I must go. "Don't be in such a hurry. I want advice. I need it. And, so fur's DECLARIN' goes, that don't do me no good. She can declare more things in a minute than I can think of in a week. Tongue! I never heard No, no!
"Yes, 'twould; yes, 'twould," he persisted. "That's why I'm lettin' it to you. Then I can't sell it to her; I CAN'T, don't you see?" Captain Sam grinned. "Fur's that goes," he suggested, "I don't see's you've got to worry, Jed. You don't need to sell it, to her or anybody else, unless you want to." But Jed looked dubious. "I suppose Jonah cal'lated he didn't need to be swallowed," he mused.
You see, we've got a cousin out West out Pennsylvany way and he ain't very well and has got a turrible lot of money. I'm sort of surmisin' that Laviny's writin' to him. We're about his only relations that's left alive and and so " "I see." The minister smiled. "Yup. Laviny's a pretty good navigator, fur's keepin' an eye to wind'ard is concerned.
"It don't make no difference whether I do or not, fur's I can see," he said, gloomily. "It's too late to start home now. I don't know what time 'tis, but we must have been ridin' three or four hours seems eight or ten year to me and we ought to be pretty near to Bayport.
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