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Updated: May 4, 2025
"I see by the Globe paper," Cap'n Abe observed, pushing up from his bewhiskered visage the silver-bowed spectacles he really did not need, "that them fellers saved from the wreck of the Gilbert Gaunt cal'late they went through something of an adventure." "And they did," rejoined Cap'n Joab Beecher, "if they seen ha'f what they tell about."
He's all those things, and he's the biggest proposition in men I've ever heard tell about. It's kind of tough. Don't you feel that way? He'll suck a pint of tobacco juice in the day, and blaspheme till your ears get on edge. And while your folks are guessing he'll put through a proposition that 'ud leave ha'f the world gasping." Nancy stirred.
"You you bought Zip's claim?" he asked incredulously. "Ha'f of it. Me an' Zip's partners. You got anything to say?" Bill's words rapped out with biting force, and Sandy, knowing the man, waited, solemn-eyed. Just for one moment astonishment held his audience breathless. Then some one sniggered, and it became the cue for an instantaneous and general guffaw of derision.
"Seems to me he wouldn't bluff me. Yes, he's in on ha'f my claim. Y'see, he thinks ther's gold in sight, an' an' I know ther' ain't. That's what's troubling me. I kind of feel mean some." Sunny yawned luxuriously. "Don't you worry any," he said easily. "Bill's mighty wide. If he's come in on your claim he's needin' to bad. Say " He broke off and turned alertly to the door.
Archie B. replied by running his hand deep down into his pocket and bringing up a handful of gold five eagles! His father dropped the switches and stared. His mother sat down suddenly in a chair and Patsy reached out, took it and counted it deliberately: "One two three fo' five an' all gold my gracious, Maw!" "That's jes' ha'f of it," said Archie B. indifferently.
She begun about the 'beautiful' sermon that Mr. Perley preached at the last 'Come-Outers'' meetin'. That was what started me thinkin' about the grave, I guess. Then she pitched into Seth Wingate's wife for havin' a new bunnit this season when the old one wan't ha'f wore out.
I ain't got ha'f the courage of a gal who does that jest because she's chased by thoughts that worry her an' make her days no better than to set her hatin' them. Strength? Say, when you ken laff an' all the time feel that life ain't ha'f so pleasant as death, why, I'd sure say ther' ain't no greater strength this side of the check-taker's box." Joan could hardly believe her ears as she listened.
"Well, I can say truthful what I never expected to say in my life that once I was wuth ha'f a million dollars. As for the rest of it, I'm like that millionaire that.... Hi! Look! There comes Dan! See him!" They peered eagerly over the fence. The Warren "two-seater" had rounded the bend in the road. Dan was driving. Beside him sat a young fellow who waved his hand.
"What are you doing?" demanded Bartlett. "Slowin' down, of course. Can't run more'n ha'f speed in a fog like this. 'Tain't safe." "Safe! What do I care? I want to get to Trumet." "Yes? Well, maybe we'll git there if we have luck." "You idiot! We've GOT to get there. How can you tell which way to steer? Get your compass, man! get your compass!" "Ain't got no compass," was the sulky answer.
She commenced stirring again, with two little wrinkles between her brows. "A ha'f a pound o' citron; a ha'f a pound o' candied peel; two pounds o' cur'nts; two pounds o' raisins git 'em stunned, Orville; a pound o' sooet make 'em give you some that ain't all strings!
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