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He was well, but modestly, dressed; and he coughed a little now, as though the two flights' climb had overtaxed him it was the man who had headed the subscription list to the Flopper half an hour before in front of Black Ike's Auditorium. "Hello, Helena!" he greeted, nodding toward the couch. "I shook the rubber-neck bunch at Ike's, Flopper.
"Well, that's the last time I will mix in another fellow's love affair," said the boy, as he climbed up on Uncle Ike's knee. "Now, I want to talk to you seriously," said the boy, as he looked up into Uncle Ike's round, smooth, red and smiling face. "Us boys have been reading about the serious condition of our country, when its wealthy citizens are leaving it and going abroad to live.
"All Ike's property to-day ain't as val'able to me now as that cent was then," Mr. Holmes answered solemnly. "It was the val'ablest cent I ever owned. I never expect to have another I'd hate so to see palpitatin' in Isaac Bolum's th'oat between his Adam's apple and his collar-band." "We're gittin' away from the subject," said Josiah.
"That's right!" agreed the Southern girl. "They couldn't!" Jill cried. "You wait!" said the Cherub. "They'll never open in New York with thirteen girls. Ike's much too thuperstitious." "But they wouldn't do a thing like that after we've all worked so hard!" There was a general burst of sardonic laughter.
To my surprise it was Emile who really suffered most, though he would not admit it, but by actual computation of the supplies in his very give-away storeroom, I learned that he had secretly carried back to Ike's beach in the dark just one half of those goods which "t' Law" had recovered for him; and which Ike to this day believes were deposited for his benefit by the good-luck fairy.
One mile, two miles, three miles! the Elder half repented of his undertaking; but like all wise and magnetic natures, he had great faith in his first impulses, and he kept on. At last the cart turned into a lane on the right-hand side of the road. "Why, he's goin' to old Ike's," exclaimed the Elder.
It was a reported lapse in some other portion of Ike's anatomy that had led me to scramble along the landwash to the cottage.
One day Ike's cattle broke out of the pasture into Bill's young oats, and though Ike hurried after them, it seemed to Bill he might have got them out a little quicker than he did. He said nothing then, however, but when a few days later they broke in again, he went over there in very bad humor. "I want this thing stopped," he said. Ike was mending the fence.
"What give ye that lick on the side o' the head, Jim?" his wife asked, when he sat down at the dinner-table. "Never you mind," he replied surlily, but he added, "Ike's axe come off, and give me a side-winder." Bill carefully removed all marks of his struggle and walked into dinner shamefacedly, all muscle gone out of his bulk of fat.
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