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"I heard the mail go just 'fore the hare squealed," said Will stolidly, "an' the letter with it for certain." Grimbal started up and rushed to the hall while the other limped after him. "Doan't 'e do nothin' fulish. I believe you never meant to post un. Ess, I'll take your solemn word for that. An' if you didn't mean to send letter, 't is as if you hadn't sent un.
He gave it Christie, word for word, and even threw in what dramatists call "the business," thus: "Here ye suld greet " "Here ye'll play your hand like a geraffe." "Geraffe? That's a beast, I'm thinking." "Na; it's the thing on the hill that makes signals." "Telegraph, ye fulish goloshen!" "Oo ay, telegraph! Geraffe 's sunest said for a'."
'What's goin' to 'appen to yu? I says; 'don't 'ee be fulish. 'No, she says, 'I won't be fulish. Well, I know what maids are, an' I never thought no more about et, till two days arter that, 'bout six in the avenin' I was comin' up wi' the calves, when I see somethin' dark lyin' in the strame, close to that big apple tree.
'Ows'ever, at last, one day, 'e up an' axed 'er to marry 'im, an' she, bein' all took by surprise, said 'yes, an' went an' married some'un else." "Lord!" said Simon, "what did she go and marry another chap for?" "Simon," returned the Ancient, "don't go askin' fulish questions. 'Ows'ever, she did, an' poor Nicodemus growed more imaginative than ever; arter that, 'e took to turnips."
Traill blushed. "Weel, I'll admit to you that I'm fair fulish about Bobby. Man, I've courted that sma' terrier for eight and a half years. He's as polite and friendly as the deil, but he'll have naething to do with me or with onybody. I wonder the intelligent bit doesn't bite me for the ill turn I did his master."
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