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"Wal," drawled the captain, "that's likely enough. If ye see one on 'em drivin' or walkin' roun', you're like enough to see t'other, for they're lover-like yet, if they has got a big fam'ly part grown up.
I expect you might have loaded the lot on a push cart. And the rations must have been more or less skimpy for some time. But you couldn't exactly say that Ma Gummidge was sufferin'. No. She'd collected a couple of fam'ly washes from over Seventh avenue way and was wadin' into 'em cheerful.
"Fam'ly pets, then, has a right to do as it is their nature for to do?" squealed Todd, working nearer. Mr. Bickford scornfully turned his back on this vulgar railer. The carriage was at hand. "How about pets known as medder hummin'-birds?" demanded Todd. The Cap'n was the first in. Hiram came next, kicking out at the amiable Hector, who would have preceded him.
"Fifty wouldn't hardly do, p'r'aps?" "Hardly. I like to carry a job through clean an' vitty while I'm on it." "You've got such a big spirit." "As to that, money so spent ban't lost 'tis all in the fam'ly." "Of course 'tis a gude advertisement for you. Folk'll think you'm prosperin' an' look up to you more." "Well, some might, though I doan't 'zactly mean it like that.
Having some information, and made acquaintance with the fam'ly through your kindness, I put on the pot, sir." "You did what?"
But not to Mis' Hemphill she's a most su'prisin' gossip, ye know nor to the Murfrees, nor Flahertys, nor nobody. These is fam'ly affairs, Lucy, and they ain't for public ears. I'm going down to Lon's now, and your pa'll get home soon very soon. I'll see to that," grimly. "Now, good night, and don't you shed another tear, will ye?"
He does it by plantin' his muddy forepaws in three places on the front of her dress and then grabbin' her gold lorgnette playful, breakin' the chain, and runnin' off with the loot. I expect that was only Buddy's idea of letting her know that he welcomed her as a member of the fam'ly in good standin'. But Auntie takes it different.
Marse Greer had done sunk all de silver in de duck pond an' hid out de horses an' cows in de big cane-brake what used to be on dis side o' Sowashee Creek. But, Lor!, it didn' do no good. Sherman done caught on by dat time 'bout how to fin' things. Dey got ever'thing an' burned Marse Greer's barn. Day lef' de house an' didn' bother de fam'ly 'cause dey called deyse'fs company.
And the one time when he did pull it off I happened to hear about. A friend of his who was usher at the old Hippodrome offered to tow him to a little Sunday night supper at the flat of one of the chorus ladies. Lester went, too, and found a giddy thing of about forty fryin' onions for a fam'ly of five, includin' three half-grown kids and a scene-shiftin' hubby.
I would dance en de folks would gib me money er gib me candy en durin' de war de soldiers wuz de prettiest things." "Got nuthin' at freedum en wuz not lookin' fuh nuthin'. Ef marster had lived he might hab gib us sump'in. He wuz a good man en good ter us. Eber since mah freedum, I'se wuk'd as a laundress. Wuk'd fer one fam'ly ober 21 y'ars. 'Bout two y'ars ago I lefted a tub, en hurt mahself.
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