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In the middle of it he looked up suddenly to say: "Son, what was the name o' that Indiany town with the big water-pipe contract?" Tom gave it in a word, and Caleb passed the paper back, with his thumb on one of the press despatches. "Read that," he said. Tom read, and the wrathful scowl evoked by the foolish editorial gave place to a flitting smile of triumph.
And by George he sued Jacops for the rhino and got jedgment; and he set up the coffin in his back parlor and said he 'lowed to take his time, now. It was always an aggravation to Jacops, the way that miserable old thing acted. He moved back to Indiany pretty soon went to Wellsville Wellsville was the place the Hogadorns was from. Mighty fine family. Old Maryland stock.
"Now the Lord said unto Abraham," she began and stopped to listen. The door opened, and Tom Lincoln stood grinning down at them. "Well, folks," he said, "we're moving to Indiany." Nancy and the children, taken by surprise, asked questions faster than Tom could answer them. He had staked out a claim about a hundred miles to the north, at a place called Pigeon Creek.
He seems omnipresent!" laughed the captain, as they whirled by. "When are they off for Poonah?" "I suppose to-day, but perhaps not till night," returned Faith. "Did you ever see anything like that? If you call this Englishy, Hope." "No, I don't. Things are beginning to look quite Indiany, since we left those fine new streets, I confess."
Peavey in a tone of voice that refused to be mollified. "I've got to be a-going." "Just wait and look at these chickens; ain't they pretty? Tom sent all the way to Indiany fer the settin' of eggs fer me and I've just been a-watching the day for 'em to hatch. I feel they are a-going to be a credit to me and I'm glad I gave 'em to Ruffle Neck to set on.
Willie thrust his head in through the open window, inquiring, "Well, how's the breakfast goin'?" and withdrew, humming a favorite song: "'Sam Bass was born in Indiany; It was his natif home. At the early age of seventeen Young Sam commenced to roam." "Fine voice!" said Lawrence, with a shudder.
Tom walked out the pike and found his father smoking gloomily on the Woodlawn porch. "You needn't say it, son," was his low greeting, when Tom had flung himself into a chair. "It was in the South Tredegar papers this morning." "What was in the papers?" "About our losin' the Indiany contract.
Here he had been jilting Miss Hampton way up in Indiany, and running away with another girl down here in Tennessee. Then it struck me mebby it is jest different parts of the same story I been hearing of, and Martha had got her part a little wrong. "George," I says, "what did you say Miss Lucy Buckner's gran-dad's name was?"
The old iron-master left his chair and began to walk the floor, six steps and a turn. After a little he said: "Tom, is that business?" "It is the modern definition of it." "What's goin' to happen up yonder in Indiany?" "If I knew, I'd be a good bit easier in my mind. What I'm hoping is that the rumpus will be big enough to make 'em turn the contract our way." Caleb stopped short.
My fingers kept feeling around in my pocket fur something that wasn't there. But my brain couldn't remember what my fingers was feeling fur. Then it come on me sudden it was a buckeye I picked up in the woods in Indiany one day, and I had lost it. I ain't superstitious about buckeyes or horse-shoes, but remembering I had lost it somehow made me feel worse.
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