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"What's un think, Bill?" asked Dick. "I'm thinkin with Ed, 'tis best t' go," said Bill, positively. "Well, maybe 'tis maybe 'tis," Dick finally assented. "Now, who'll be goin'? 'Twill be a wonderful hard task t' break th' news. I'm thinkin' my heart'd be failin' me when I gets there. Ed, would un mind goin'?"
"Think of that, gentlemen! A circuit judge bemeanin' a citizen and a taxpayer" he checked himself slightly "anyhow, a citizen, thataway! It shows he can't be rational his own self. Personally I claim Old Priest is failin' mentally he must be! And ef anybody kin be found to run against him at the next election you gentlemen jest watch and see who gits my vote!"
There's no answer to that, and, knowin' that if there's one failin' Dominick don't possess it's bein' tonguetied, I gets suspicious. Besides, a couple of porch-climbin' jobs had been pulled off in the neighborhood recent, and, even though I do carry a burglar policy, I ain't crazy about havin' strangers messin' through the bureau drawers while I'm tryin' to sleep.
Under the influence of such reminiscences John used to become depressed, and gently prepare Rebecca for the changes that were not far off, when Drumtochty would have a new minister and a new beadle. "The Doctor's failin', Becca, an' it's no tae be expeckit that a 'll be lang aifter him; it wudna be fittin', an' a 'm no wantin' 't.
I get more and more failin' every day, I'm pretty near gone now. I don't know but what I shall die any time. I suffer so with rheumatiz, and I'm troubled considerable with a risin' of the lungs; and sometimes I do think I've got a spine in my back, it aches and creaks so nights."
And when I see Josiah wuz sot on hirin' him to do the job I felt dretful, for he wuz no more fit for it than our brindle cow to do fine sewin', or our old steer to give music lessons on the banjo. He wuz a creeter I never liked, always tryin' to invent sunthin' and always failin. But Josiah insisted on havin' him because he wuz so much cheaper.
First thing you know, Gib, you'll be losin' your ticket for failin' to be courteous on the high seas." "Six o' one an' half a dozen o' the other, Bart. If I whistle I'll use up all your steam, an', then if we should find ourselves in the danger zone we won't be able to get out of our own way." "Let's refuse to take her out again until Scraggsy spends some money on her.
Howsomever, it's all up now, my boy; you'll have to fight your own battle and pay your own way, for I've not got one shillin' to rub on another, except what'll pay the rent; and, what with the grey mare breakin' her leg an' the turnips failin', the look-out ahead is darkish at the best." The letter finished with some good advice and a blessing.
"'Twas thus I was double-crossed by the tropics through a family failin' of goin' out of the way to hunt disturbances.
Shif'less Sol, while he pulled as powerfully as Tom Ross, whose place he had taken, nevertheless was not silent. "I'd like to know the feelin's o' Braxton Wyatt an' that feller Butler," he said. "Must be powerful tantalizin' to them to see us here, almost where they could stretch out their hands an' put 'em on us. Like reachn' fur ripe, rich fruit, an' failin' to git it by half a finger's length."
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