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Better have Patsy put you up a lunch unless you're fond of mutton." Andy twisted his mouth disgustedly. "Say, I'm going to quit handing out any valuable advice to you, Weary," he expostulated. "Haw-haw-haw-w-w!" laughed Big Medicine, and slapped Andy on the shoulder so that his face almost came in contact with his plate. "Yuh will try to work some innercent man into sheepherdin', will yuh?
"I asked if ye remembered some of my pals in Auburn Prison, an' ye said ye did, didn't ye, Tessibel?" asked Skinner, suddenly. Tess gave an impatient twist of her shoulders. "An' I told ye I did, Daddy," she replied. "'Course I do. I ain't never forgot nobody who were good to you, honey." "An' ye're pretty well satisfied, ain't ye, brat, most of 'em there air innercent?"
"Why, how easy it would hev been ter throw su'thin' over the bluff " the counsellor began. "Good Lord!" Clenk exclaimed angrily, from his seat in the boat, "ain't ye got no human feelin's, Jack Drann? We-uns never went ter shed the innercent blood nohow. We-uns war loaded fur that tricky revenuer, an' Edward Briscoe war kilt by mistake.
"Thought you were going to talk plain English. You're cryptic, my son." "All right here goes. That jam business is straight goods. The old lady says she tasted jam and she did taste jam. That's all there is about that. And that sweet, pleasant, innercent raspberry jam will yet send the moiderer of Mr. Embury to the chair!"
Some innercent little remark is as likely to set 'em off as anythin' else. All the time it's like carryin' a light into a fireworks place. Drop it once an' the air 'll be full of sky-rockets, roman candles, pinwheels, an' set pieces till you're that dazed you don't know where you're livin'. Don't never take no red-haired one, my dear, if you're anyways set on peace.
"Ye never kin tell," said the foreman didactically, "what might happen! I've known editors to get into a fight jest for a little innercent bedevilin' o' the opposite party. Sometimes for a misprint.
'I don't s'pose I shall be long, and, while I'm away, Bill and the cook will look arter you. "Miss Butt wrinkled up 'er shoulders. "'The gate'll be locked, and you're not to leave the wharf. D'ye 'ear? "The gal wriggled 'er shoulders agin and went on reading, but she gave the cook a look out of 'er innercent baby eyes that nearly made 'im drop the mop.
I should'nt ha' dreamt of such a thing. "Artful 'Arry played with 'is stick a little, and stood looking at 'im with a horrible look on 'is face. "''Ow am I to know you're speaking the truth? he ses, very slow. 'Eh? 'Ow can you prove it? "'If it was the last word I was to speak I'd say the same, ses Uncle Dick. 'I tell you, I am as innercent as a new-born babe.
Instead o' that, he goes about with a face as long as a fiddle. He don't drink, 'e don't go to places of amusement innercent places of amusement and 'is idea of enjoying life is to go walking about the streets and drinking cups o' tea." "We must try and alter 'im," ses Sam, arter doing a bit o' thinking. "Certainly not," ses Mr. Goodman, laying his 'and on Sam's knee.
For a ready lie, and for acting a lie, and over-acting it at times, give me townspeople; but for a thundering big un, against all reason, and for sticking to it stupid when they're downright convicted, and with a face as innercent as a baby's, give me a country lump.
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