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Updated: May 22, 2025
"Mebbe not; but what I've got I've worked for." "For my part, although I am not near as rich as you are, I'd give twenty dollars toward sending the minister abroad," said kindly Miss Spring. "I wouldn't give a cent," said Mr. Tudor, with emphasis. "Nor I," said Deacon Gridley. "I don't believe in humorin' the clergy." Saturday came, and the minister was worse.
Havin' been humorin' his whims a good deal longer than Marion, and not being very strong herself, Mrs. Gray finally wore out. And almost before they knew anything serious was the matter she was gone. Then it all fell on Marion. Course, if she'd been a paid nurse she never would have stood for this continuous double-time act.
"I'll desperate him!" said Mrs. Tucker scornfully. "I don't believe in humorin' him." "Nor I, Abigail. He'd like to come down, but I won't let him. We can manage him between us." "I should smile if we couldn't," said Mrs. Tucker. "If you want any supper for him, you can get it yourself. I've got too much to do. No, Widder Jones, you can't have another cup of tea, and you needn't beg for it.
They put on a sort of patronizing air, as much as to say, "These children are an awful lot of trouble. They're wantin' candy all the time, and they know that it will make them sick. They ought to thank goodness that they have us to take care of them." And if you try to argue with them, they'll smile in a pityin' sort of way as if they were humorin' a spoiled child.
"They needs rough handlin', most o' the time, an' then a mite o' humorin' like ye t'row fish to a team o' dogs after ye lash the hair off 'em. Aye, a rough crew, an' no mistake but Black Dennis Nolan bes their master!" He left his chair, stepped across the floor, and lifted the trap that led to the cellar. He descended, returning in a minute with a bottle of wine and two tins of potted meat.
And the nigger's humorin' him!" They were all staring, open-mouthed and aghast, into the lighted room. "Do you see where it puts US?" Simeon Peck's rasping voice rose high. "I guess I do!" said Grist. "We come out to buy a barn, and got a house and lot fer the same money. It's the greatest night's work you ever done, Sim Peck!" "I guess it is!" "Shake on it, Sim."
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