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Nils asked, dropping down on the bench behind the kitchen stove. "One of your Cousin Henrik's." "How long has Cousin Henrik been dead?" "Six years. There are two boys. One stays with Peter and one with Anders. Olaf is their guardeen." There was a clatter of pails on the porch, and a tall, lanky boy peered wonderingly in through the screen door.
Blossy, who had first proposed admitting him into this paradise; Blossy, who had given up her sunny south chamber to his comfort and Angy's; Blossy, who had been as a "guardeen angel" to him; Blossy, who as a fitting climax to all her sisterly attentions had given him to-day this wonderful, wonderful pink tea, and "this five hull pound o' Virginny terbaccer."
He is motheh, fatheh, guardeen, and dry nurse to every stick, stone, and brick, every piece of wood, brass, or rubbah, every inch of hose, and every man and Irishman on these premises." Taylor had turned an embarrassed brick red. "Mr.
He'll know. I'm his ward." "Aw, no! You ain't?" "Yes, I am," said Nancy, nodding. "Never knowed he had one. So he is yer guardeen?" grunted the red-haired boy, unwinding his legs. The girl thought she had chatted quite enough with this very bold youth, so made no further reply. "Ain't he the sly one?" proceeded "Scorch" O'Brien, shaking his head. "Him a guardeen an' I never knowed it before."
"Say, the sight of you is good for sore eyes! I just been hankerin' for a friend." "You need a guardeen more'n a friend," remarked some one. Hill began to bristle and to look around in search of the one who had spoken. Clancy grabbed his arm, and drew him away down the lobby to a couple of leather chairs. "What's the matter with you, Hiram?" the motor wizard asked.
When John Fox went to the village he usually stopped first at the tavern, and invested ten cents in a glass of whisky. Here he met two or three of his cronies. "Folks say you've got a new boarder, Fox," said Bill Latimer, as he laid down his glass on the counter. "Yes," answered Fox, complacently. "I'm his guardeen." "Folks say he got a pile of money for saving the train."
"We'll every mother's son o' us be guardeen to her!" he declared, with the finality appropriate to his office as autocrat second only to the Boss himself. Every man in camp assented noisily, saving only Red McWha; and he, as was expected of him, sat back and grinned. From the first, Rosy-Lilly made herself at home in the camp.
"F-F-Foxes' Gully!" exclaimed Montgomery, no longer resisting the relief of walking on somebody else's feet, so to speak. Uncle Moses stopped short, amazed and alarmed. "What? What's that you say?" "F-f-fell down it. An' she come to say she was s-s-s-sor-ry." "And wasn't killed? Well now, and forever after, I'll believe in guardeen angels! Fell down it an' wasn't killed! But what made ye?
For nearly forty years I've been knockin' 'round this Western country without no nurse or guardeen to look after me. I've mixed with all kinds, and I've been in some scrapes; there's notches on my gun handles to prove that I ain't been no quitter.
If any one fretted him in his somewhat fretful convalescence, it was this grenadier member of the household, who since Blossy's marriage had endeavored to fill the vacant post of "guardeen angel." "Mis' Homan," he sputtered, rising to his feet, "I wouldn't wear a red an' green plaid tie to a eel's funeral!"
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