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"Well, first, Lafe," she recounted, "I gathered the wood in the marsh, then I went straight across the back field through the swamp. It's froze over harder'n hell " Lafe uttered a little, "Sh!" and Jinnie, with scarlet face, supplemented, "I mean harder'n anything." "Sure," replied Lafe, nodding. "Mr. Bates and his kids were there, but he c'n carry a pile three times bigger'n I can!"
"I ain't holdin' it against you," grinned Tex. "The arms an' legs is yours, an' you're welcome to 'em. Also I'm obliged to you for permittin' me to tarry a spell longer on this mundane spear, as the fellow says, even if I can't chew nothin' harder'n soup." "Would you mind rolling me a cigarette," grinned Endicott, as he finished the last of the biscuits.
"I waited 'most two hours for the lawyer, an' when he come, I begged harder'n anything, but it didn't do no good. He says I can't see my man for a long time. I guess they're tryin' to make him confess he killed Maudlin." Jinnie's hand clutched frantically at the other's arm. Both women had forgotten the presence of the blind child. "He wouldn't do that," cried Jinnie, panic-stricken.
Then I set the light between my feet, picked up the oars and started rowing. "I rowed quiet as I could, but he heard me 'fore I got to him. I heard a scrambling noise off ahead, and then a shaky voice hollers: 'Hello! who's that? "'It's me, says I, rowing harder'n ever. 'Who are you? What's the row? "There was more scrambling and a slam, like a door shutting.
"'Tisn't much harder'n Margot's stepping-stones. Done them times enough." Again Adrian was grateful for his forest experience, but he asked with some anxiety: "Suppose you are strong enough to do it?" "Isn't any supposin' about it. Got to. Might as well died in the pool as starve on this rock."
Tie on some picks an' shovels an' put you behind the wheel, and only the guys that are in the know would ever get wise in a thousand years. "Why, look what he said about you havin' 'em all bluffed in San Berdoo! Grabbed you with a bunch uh moonshiners, and you fightin' the saps harder'n any of 'em and then, by heck, you slips the noose an' leaves 'em thinkin' you're honest but unlucky.
I've heard 't up to Boston, where he got his manifest, they thought everything of him. He's smart enough, but he's lazy, and he always was lazy, and harder'n a nut. He's a curious mixtur'. 'N' I guess he's been on the lookout for somethin' of this kind ever sence he begun practising among the summer boarders. Guess he's had an eye out."
Prince and a couple of pecks of clams went up in the air like a busted bomb-shell, and I broke for the fence I'd started for. I hung on to the other dreener, though, just out of principle. "But I had to let go of it, after all. The dog come out of the collision looking like a plate of scrambled eggs, and took after me harder'n ever, shedding shells and clam juice something scandalous.
There are plenty men drive harder'n I do, and " "Yes. There are some that break down all the other men that work with 'em. They either die, or go crazy, or have to quit, and are no use the rest of their lives. The last's my case, I guess 'complicated by domestic difficulties'!" "You set there and tell me you give up?"
As the little party walked on, Miss Katharine turned her head more than once for another look at the schoolhouse. "Wouldn't it be fun, Edy, to teach school in there and ring that 'lin-lan-lone bell' to call in the scholars? I'd make you study botany harder'n you ever did before." "No, thank you, Miss Dunlee," replied Edith, courtesying. "You'll not get me to worrying over botany.
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