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"What a brute I was, not to offer you a chair! Now do sit down, young lady." Pet did so, and Uncle Ith resumed: "The old gentleman was a machinist, I s'pose, for I used to see his shadow on the wall, goin' through the motions of filin', sawin', and hammerin', though I could never guess what he was workin' on. I have known him sometimes to be at this queer business till daylight.
"I did," he answered, moving the pan. "Then somebody's lied to you, fer I filed on this ground and I ain't abandoned it." "You've never done any work on it, and Mr. Tucker has my filing fees and application so I cannot see that there is any argument about it." Wallie was very polite and conciliatory. "You'll find that filin' is one thing and holdin' is another in this man's country."
His face, as well as I could see through my glass in the night time, at that distance, showed a wonderful amount of surprise and astonishment at the fall of this rod or bar, I s'pose. He then seemed to be filin' on somethin', and afterward stooped down, as if to put it into some part of the machine, or whatever it was.
I pointed it aout a-comin' through the woods, the day you landed up here, Mr. Hemsley." "Have you any claim on this girl?" demanded Hemsley, wheeling upon the stranger. "Touchin' claims," returned the other, with sure emphasis, "I am not for filin' mine with the first party immediately convenient.
"Travel's all right, but a man's got to do somethin', buck somethin', start somethin'. An' a red-blooded man wants the right kind of a woman to play mate. Polish off his rough edges, mebbe. I'd rather be a rough castin' that could stand filin' a bit, than smooth an' plated. An', when I find the right woman, one of my own breed, I'm goin' to tie to her an' her to me. "I'm goin' to be rich.
We got aboard & crost over to Injianny, & I felt so glad at bein on my nativ soil wuns more that I took Abe up 2 the eatin stand, & blowed in a dollar filin up the vacant plasis in his hide. When we tried 2 git on the train there cum another trubble: The conductor woulddent let him ride in the car with white folks not even in the smokin-car. He made him go into the baggage-car.
We've got the Philippines now an' we've got Hawaii an' we've got the niggers an' we've got ever so many other things. We've got the Mormons down to one wife as a general thing an' the Italians comin' in by the thousands an' more old soldiers bein' born every year an' the fifth generation of Revolutionary orphans out filin' their pensions an' we owe 'em all to the Republicans.
But that man smiled all the time, and took off his hat, and bowed to me: we went by when he wus a swingin' right up in the air. I never see the beat of his goodness. Why, we found out afterwards, that, besides filin' them saws, he had loaded seven barrells of salt that day, besides other heavy truck. That night he wus perfectly beat out but good.
Gropp, he's office manager, he was very nice about it. He says, 'I wish you all the luck in the world, girlie, and remember your job as filin' clerk will always be here for you. Wasn't that gentlemanly of him? Still, I'd rather act than stand on my feet all day filing letters. I won't go back till I have to."
"Tim didn't hit him; but I guess he felt like th' man who met the bear without any weapon, even a newspaper would 'a' come handy. He hands in his time t' once and quits. Sence then he's been as mad as a bar-keep with a lead quarter, which ain't usual for Tim. He's been filin' his teeth for M. & D. right along. Somethin's behind it all, I reckon." "Where'll I find him?" asked Thorpe.
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