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The other day I begun with petty larceny and chicken stealin'. To-day it's bin highway robbery, premeditated murder, horse stealin', grand larceny, and tellin' a deliberate lie. What'll I be doin' this time next week? I must git that old man's horse and buckboard back to him somehow, and pay him for his vittles. But how'm I goin' to do it?
"Gorl darn it, boys," came a peevish voice, from amidst the blanket, "'tain't smart, neither, playin' around when a feller's kind o' roundin' up his plug. How'm I goin' to cut that all-fired buckskin out o' the bunch wi' you gawkin' around like a reg'ment o' hoboes? Ef you don't reckon to fool any, why, some o' you git around an' head him off from the rest of 'em.
"He's bung in the fairway. How'm I to get past?" said Hinchcliffe. "There's no room. Here, Pye, come and relieve the wheel!" "Nay, nay, Pauline. You've made your own bed. You've as good as left your happy home an' family cart to steal it. Now you lie on it." "Ring your bell," I suggested. "Glory!" said Pyecroft, falling forward into the nape of Hinchcliffe's neck as the car stopped dead.
But a new Rate's worthless until you, Squire, and you, Parson, have signed the allowance for it as magistrates: and now comes your turn to give trouble." "And how'm I to do that?" asked the old Squire. "Why, by keeping out of the way, to be sure. Take a holiday: find out some little spa that suits your complaint, and go and drink the waters." "Ay, do, Parson," chimed in John a Hall.
But Dan'l Copestake said it was all nonsense. "Might be made a good garden if master wasn't so close," he used to say to everybody. "Wants more money spent on it, and more hands kept. How'm I to keep a place like that to rights with only two me and a lab'rer, under me, and Peter to do the sweeping?"
One day the boys asked him over to the square to make a speech. The General was a little uneasy. "'I'm all right when I get standing up, Liza, he said to his wife. Then the words come right along. Only trouble is they come too cussed fast. How'm I going to stop 'em when I want to? "'Well, I du declare, Buck, said she, 'I gave you credit for some sense. All you've got to do is to set down.
Been up to the courthouse and roped in three of the county officials. In these small towns the big man is the politician or the clergyman. I've nailed the politicians through the ear; now you must go for the ministers to head the list that's your lay-out." "How'm I t' do it?" said Bert, in an anxious tone. "I can't sell books if they don't want 'em." "Yes, yeh can. That's the trade.
"Not Blair, but Holt was here early with the boys," replied Pepper. "They've gone to the club rooms to have a little game. I'm going to sit in. Lately I had to put up a holler. If the boys quit cards how'm I to make a living?" "Had Holt been drinking?" "Not to-night. But he's been hitting the bottle pretty hard of late." Suddenly Lane buttonholed the little man and peered down earnestly at him.
One day the boys asked him over to the square to make a speech. The General was a little uneasy. "'I'm all right when I get standing up, Liza, he said to his wife. Then the words come right along. Only trouble is they come too cussed fast. How'm I going to stop 'em when I want to? "'Well, I du declare, Buck, said she, 'I gave you credit for some sense. All you've got to do is to set down.
Great Jehosephat, how'm I goin' to stand it till then? Where'll I be two weeks from now? What kin I do? I a'most wish that something'd happen to Si that'd give me an excuse for writin'." He racked his fertile brain with expedients and devices for getting up communication, but for once he had to reject them all. There was a halo of unapproachableness about Maria Klegg that paralyzed him.
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