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I don't say as she ain't the lastin'est kind er fool, ner I don't say a child ain't worse spattin' the lines an' standin' up an' hollerin' but I do say, 'tain't none of our business to shed 'em daown the road." "We don't," said the Deacon. "The baby tried to git some o' my tail for a sooveneer last fall when I was up to the haouse, an' I didn't kick. Boney's talk ain't goin' to hurt us any.
The Member of the Haouse inquired of me whether I could tell him if the Lamb Tahvern was kept well abaout these times. He knew that members from his place used to stop there, but he hadn't heerd much abaout it of late years. I had to inform him that that fold of rural innocence had long ceased offering its hospitalities to the legislative, flock.
"Sure enough!" went on Walky, "that's another thing that kin honestly be laid to Lem Parraday's openin' that bar at the Inn. That's where Jack got the liquor that twisted his brain, that led him astray, that made him a thief Jefers-pelters! sounds jest like 'The Haouse That Jack Built, don't it? But poor Jack Besmith has sartainly built him a purty poor haouse.
If he'd only smoked good tobacco, I wouldn't have said a word; but it was such dreadful stuff, it 'll take a week to get his chamber sweet enough to show them that asks for rooms. It doos smell like all possest. Left any goods? asked the Salesman. Or dockermunts? added the Member of the Haouse. The Landlady answered with a faded smile, which implied that there was no hope in that direction. Dr.
The Member of the Haouse was just saying that this bill hit his constitooents in their most vital when a pellet hit him in the feature of his countenance most exposed to aggressions and least tolerant of liberties.
After this little fracas is fixed up, you an' me'll make up a party an' 'tend to it." Marcus did not answer for a long time, then he said: "There's a pup up to the haouse 'bout eight weeks old. He'll yap till he gits a lickin', an' when he sees it comin' he lies on his back, an' yowls. But he don't go through no cirkituous nose-countin' first. I've seen a noo light sence Rod spoke.
"Yeou might as well try ter raffle off a white elephant." "Pshaw! of course not. But a fine fiddle like that a real Cremona will bring a pretty penny in the city. There, Walky, roll that barrel right into this corner behind the bar. I'll have to put a spigot in it soon. Might's well do it now. 'Tis the real Simon-pure article, Walky. Have a snifter?" "On the haouse?" queried Walky, briskly.
I watched her very closely, and one day, when the little monkey made us all laugh by stopping the Member of the Haouse in the middle of a speech he was repeating to us, it was his great effort of the season on a bill for the protection of horn-pout in Little Muddy River, I caught her making the signs that set him going.
The Member of the Haouse seemed to have been getting a dim idea that all this was not exactly flattering to the huckleberry districts. Yes, Sir, the Master continued, Sir being anybody that listened, there is neither flattery nor offence in the views which a physiological observer takes of the forms of life around him.
I was jest goin' across to Peleg Morton's haouse with this yere milk, when I I sorter dropped in," and Farmer Snubbins went off into a fit of laughter at his own joke. Mr. Si Snubbins was a character, and he plainly was very much pleased with himself. His little, sharp eyes apprehended the situation quickly. "I vow to Maria!" repeated the farmer. "Ye air all snowed up here, ain't ye?
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