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Even Jonas, one night, as he brought in the bed-time pitcher of ice water, said, "Boss, I saw Miss Allen's pictures this evening. They sure are queersome. That must be hotter'n Washington out there. How come you ain't been, Boss?" "How do you know I haven't seen them, Jonas?" asked Enoch quickly. "Don't I know every place you go, boss? Didn't you tell me that was my job, years ago?
Why, Thankful Payne says to me only yesterday, 'Didama, says she, 'the minister's got somethin' on his mind and it's wearin' of him out. You ain't got nothin' on your mind, have you, Mr. Ellery?" "I guess not, Mrs. Rogers. It's a beautiful afternoon, isn't it? "There! I knew you wa'n't well. A beautiful afternoon, and it hotter'n furyation and gettin' ready to rain at that! Don't tell me!
Don't worry about my not finding you when I want you. It's my business to find you, and I've got men to help me do it. I'll find you sometime in a way that'll make your hair stand up. Get out, now, and never come around my tent with any such blamed nonsense as that. "And Cap Somerville took advantage of the break to snap up Cap's queen, which made him hotter'n ever.
"Seventeen minutes," said the cook glancing at the Waterbury, with the air of a train starter, though this show of precision had never yet been justified by events. "How's things on the Perico?" said Jo's pard. "Hotter'n hinges," said Jo. "Cattle seem O.K.; lots of calves."
"An' if I don't mistake, that's Lakeport showin' up ahead. An' all wild country, an' no railroads." "And no moon valleys here," Saxon criticized. "But it is beautiful, oh, so beautiful." "Hotter'n hell in the dead of summer, I'll bet," was Billy's opinion. "Nope, the country we're lookin' for lies nearer the coast. Just the same it is beautiful... like a picture on the wall.
'By mighty! That makes me hotter'n a pancake. What's it on the bed fer? 'To catch flies, I answered. 'An' ketched me, said Uncle Eb, as he flung the sheet he was examining into a corner. 'My extry good suit' too! He took off his trousers, then, holding them up to the light. 'They're sp'ilt, said he mournfully. 'Hed 'em fer more'n ten year, too. 'That's long enough, I suggested.
It's hotter'n blazes and my throat is caked with dust." Then grandpa thought that the peddler was mad and was mockin' him because he didn't buy anything, and that the peddler had heard about his temperance work and was tryin' to be insultin'. So he said, "If you're thirsty, here's plenty of slops." So then the peddler flew all to pieces. "Well, this is what I'd like to know. I want you to tell me.
His eyes sparkled as they fell upon the face of his uncle. "Ye've got back, Johnnie," said the old man. "Yas. 'Twas hotter'n a red-hot stove on the road." "Ye druv in with the widder woman?" "Yas. I druv in with her; but I walked back. Guess I run the most o' the way, too." "An' Mis' Janssen wheer is she?" "I dunno', uncle Abram." "Is she still a widder woman, Johnnie?"
"Hotter'n hell with the lid on," he grumbled. "Wisht I had some water." He drew out a flask that still had two fingers of whiskey in it, but he had resolution enough not to drink. This would not help him. "Reckon I better not take it," he said regretfully. Bob took the bandanna handkerchief from his throat and soaked one end of it in the liquor. "Bathe yore head," he advised. "It'll cool it fine."
"This evenin' when I came home from the store I see somethin' was extry wrong soon's I struck the settin' room. Emeline was there, and Bennie D., and I give you my word, I felt like turnin' up my coat collar, 'twas so frosty. 'Twas hotter'n a steamer's stoke-hole outside, but that room was forty below zero.
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