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Who writ up No'th an' got a preacher sent to us, an' de fun's ter buil' dis same chu'ch-house we're settin' in ter-night? Who got de money f'm de Bureau to s'port de school? An' when dat was stop', who got de money f'm de Peabody Fun'? Talk about Miss Noble gittin' a sal'ry! Who paid dat sal'ry up ter five years ago? Not one dollah of it come outer ou' pockets!
Don't you think it is best to put off being married as long as you can? not till it's too late, you know. The fun's all over then don't you think so? except the house, and carriage, and establishment, and giving entertainments, and all that. And you have got it all already. Oh, I should think you would make the men dance round?
"The signal for the captains of each ship to assemble on board the Princess Charlotte," cried Jack. "Hurrah! the fun's to begin."
But finally the ordeal was over and Perry led the way back to the festivities. Ossie groaned when they were safely out of ear-shot. "She's on to us," he muttered. "I could see it in her eye! I'm off before they throw me out!" "Don't be a jay," begged Perry. "The evening's young and the fun's just starting. Mrs. Thingamabob doesn't know whether she asked us or not.
Macdonald saw there was no triumph over him among his crowd, for they all evidently felt as much involved in the failure of Sandy's trick as he did himself; but he was sure that in future some man, hard pushed in argument, would fling the New Yorker at him. In the crisis he showed the instinct of a Napoleon. "Well, boys," he cried, "fun's fun, but I've got to work.
"Yes, of course we will! I want to find out what girl was mean enough and smart enough to cut up this trick!" "Come on then. You'd better wash your face, you're all teary looking. I s'pose we might as well go, but I don't feel a bit like it. All the fun's gone out of it."
"'Yo' note, suh, is better 'n gol', I doan doubt; but I is made it a rule in my bizness not ter take no notes fum nobody. Howsomeber, suh, ef you is kinder sho't er fun's, mos' lackly we kin make some kin' er bahg'in. En w'iles we is talkin', I mought 's well say dat I needs ernudder good nigger down on my place. Ef you is got a good one ter spar', I mought trade wid you.
Several minutes later he emerged with the missing couple Bert bleeding from a blow on the ear, but hilarious, and Mary rumpled and hysterical. "This ain't sport," she kept repeating. "It's a shame, a dirty shame." "We got to get outa this," Billy said. "The fun's only commenced." "Aw, wait," Bert begged. "It's worth eight dollars. It's cheap at any price.
"She's so little, Lord, for it to end here, and she's had a hard time so far. The fun's just beginning." It showed no lack of wisdom, perhaps, that his prayer ended there. His mind must have wandered a little later. It seemed as if his mother were beside him, encouraging him as she had done long before in his boyhood when he had wrestled with a difficult task.
This time the Curtiss-Robin sped past not much more than three hundred feet above, so that he could plainly make out a head, with its protecting helmet, earflaps, and goggles, that was projected from the cabin. "Darn his nerve, if he ain't wavin' his hand to me to say, 'I see you little boy, you're it! Spotted me, danged if he didn't, by ginger! an' now the fun's a'goin' to start right along.
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