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Close upon two hunderd I should say's his age." "Nonsense!" I said; "horses are very old indeed at twenty!" "Some horses; but he was only a baby then. He's the oldest horse as ever was, and about the best; ain't you, Basket? Come along, old chap."
"I'll niver tell yo' a tale agin, Sam'l Todd, not if yo' was to go on yo' bended knees for't. Nay; it bain't no manner o' use talkin'. Niver agin, says I." "I niver askt yo'," declared honest Sam'l. "Nor it wouldna ha' bin no manner o' use if yo' had," said the other viciously. "I'll niver tell yo' a tale agin if I was to live to be a hunderd."
The old double-decker rides easier for havin' consid'rable ballast, ye know and Miss Lester tips her at nigh onto about two hunderd; she 's a widder too, ain't she, by the way? but she 's clost onto sixty-seven; hain't no thoughts o' splicin', in course. Miss Lester 's a vary sensible woman.
"'A hunderd? I says, an' he shook his head. "'Fifty, I says, 'an' I'll go a hunderd, an at that he got out his hank'chif an' blowed his nose, an' took his time to it. 'Wa'al, I says, 'what do ye say? "'Wa'al, he says, 'I ain't quite prepared to give ye 'n answer to-night.
Out and out another ten notches, then another and another one hundred, one hundred and one, one hundred and two, one hundred and three yet the yard still protested, still called for more. Out one tooth farther, and the steel lay along the horizon. Everybody listened. "One hunderd an' fou'," Mr. Buck announced. "Thar' now, yer lazy dog!
Sanders approaching in the distance, "Look!" she cried, pointing. "Why, he doesn't even compare to Noble Dill!" "Don't point at people!" "Well, he's nothing much to point at!" She lowered her finger. "It's no depredation to me, Aunt Julia, to give up pointing at Newland Sanders. Atch'ly, I wouldn't give Noble Dill's little finger for a hunderd and fifty Newland Sanderses!"
Ye never see a woman't didn't get married for dooty yet; there a'n't nary one on 'em darst to say they wanted ter." "Oh! Mister Long!" exclaimed Sally. "Well, Sally, it's nigh about so; you han't lived a hunderd year. Some o' these days you'll get to know yer dooty." Sally turned red, and the three young men sniggered.
Out of this he had to pay one hundred and ninety for money borrowed by him at collidge, seventy for chambers, seventy more for his hoss, aty for his suvvant on bord wagis, and about three hundred and fifty for a sepparat establishment in the Regency Park; besides this, his pockit-money, say a hunderd, his eatin, drinkin, and wine-marchant's bill, about two hunderd moar.
"Bein' moved," said Scattergood, "more by cantankerousness than grief." "I'll venture," said Pliny, "that there'll be more'n five hunderd old residents a-comin' back, and where in tunket we're goin' to sleep 'em all the committee don't know."
"Cows or no cows, your place here's worth a nice little sum," protested the other, condescendingly; "hunderd, anyway." Lancaster stared. "Hunderd!" he cried. "You got th' grass staggers. Five hunderd." Braden pursed his lips, his thumbs in his armholes again. "Three hunderd and fifty, say," he compromised. "I'd be willin' t' give you that." A moment since, the section-boss had been downcast.
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