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Updated: June 9, 2025
'Course, most always it doesn't, and a good deal of the time, when he says things, why, I have to feel glad we haven't got company, because they'd think he didn't have any gumption at all. Yet, look at the way he did when Jim when Jim got hurt. He took right hold o' things.
Indeed, the problem of the Falls was the problem of every small town—where in the world could an up-and-doing girl turn for a beau? The only young men in the place were those married still younger and anchored there, or the possessors of too little gumption to get out. Those left hung over the rail at the end of the Main Street bridge and eyed every female passer-by.
"Why didn't you ask for 'em while you 'ad the chance?" demanded Bainton testily; "It's too late now to bother your mind with what ye might ha' done if ye'd had a bit of gumption. And it's too late for me to be goin' and speakin' to Passon Walden. There's nothin' to be done now till the marnin'!"
But, if you've got any sort of gumption about hats, I am going to do it, and the rest of this fool town can say what it likes and do what it pleases. So the thing for you to do is to quiet down sensibly and show me whether you can trim a hat." It took Rose a few minutes to carry out the first part of this injunction. The rush of relief and gratitude and happiness shook her.
Too few of them have the intelligence or gumption to have the least idea how to go about it, did it ever occur to them that things might be radically improved. Nor is it anything but feminist sentimentality, as far as I can see, to argue against special legislation for women. What women can do intellectually as compared with men I am in no position to state.
Hem och 'Eise up' Why, thin, Phil Callaghan, you might thrate me wid more dacency, if you had gumption in you; I'm sure no one has a betther right to sing first in this company nor myself; an' what's more, I will sing first. Hould your tongues! Hem!" He accordingly commenced a popular song, the air of which, though simple, was touchingly mournful.
"Wall, yes; the eddication's stayed by me. I ruther guess 'twas the gumption that got knocked out. That was at Antietam." "Didn't know you was in the war," Enoch exclaimed, with a visible accession of respect. "Was you hit?" "Wall, yes; in the head. I wa' n't much more 'n a youngster, and when they let me loose the doctors said I was good 's new; 'n I ruther guess I was, all except the gumption.
'Are they well off? asked the prudent captain. 'Harry Norman is very well off; he has a private fortune. Both of them have excellent situations. 'To my way of thinking that other chap is the better fellow. At any rate he seems to have more gumption about him. 'Why, uncle, you don't mean to tell me that you think Harry Norman a fool? said Mrs. Woodward. Harry Norman was Mrs.
"What if he did shut down? What of it?" She glared defiance until her pale eyes watered with the strain. "I don't notice anybody here that's ever had gumption enough even to start up. What do you do?" She answered for them "Jest scratch a hole in the ground, then set and wait for Capital to come and hand you out a million. I dast you to answer!"
One does not have gumption till one has been properly cheated one must be made a fool very often in order not to be fooled at last!" "Well, Corporal, I shall now have opportunities enough of profiting by experience. I am going to leave Grassdale in a few days, and learn suspicion and wisdom in the great world."
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