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"I ain't nuther. I bought me some rubbers and Iry some playthings." "How much have you got, Co?" asked Amarilly gently. "Two dollars and ninety-seven cents," she said, weeping profusely. "I think that's pretty good for a little girl," said Amarilly. "All you strapping boys ought to chip in out of your cash on hand what isn't in the bank and give her some so she could be in on it.
"No. Gus didn't take it that night, and in the mornin' when Iry was took it was too late. And then when it got fumygated, Mr. St. John had gone away and he left word we was to keep it." The transformation in Colette's mobile face during this explanation was rapid and wonderful. With a radiant smile she stopped the brougham and put her arms impulsively about Amarilly.
She stopped to pat his ruddy cheek, nor was it much wrinkled, before she returned to peeling the potatoes. "I know you don't mean to, Iry," she crooned.
"Yas," said Abner, "they do pick darned clean, but that ain't the wust on't, fer they sends our bones tew rot in jail arter they've got all the meat orf." "'Twas ony yesdy Iry Seymour sole out Zadkiel Poor, ez lives long side o' me, an tuk Zadkiel daown tew Barrington jail fer the res' what the sale didn't fetch," said Israel Goodrich.
Jenkins, "but we kin spank him up good as soon as we git thar, and then he'll understand he's to keep away." "We kin git a good dog to keep track of Iry and the cattle," said the Boarder, and then he paused expectantly to listen to Amarilly's approbation. But she was strangely silent. "It will be a fust class investment," he continued sagely. "Why will it?
"He don't know nothin' about bein' hungry!" replied Amarilly defiantly. "If he was ever as hungry as Iry, I bet he'd steal from a cat." The season was now summer. Some time ago John Meredith had gone to the seashore and the King family to their summer home in the mountains, unaware that the fever had spread over so wide an area in the Jenkins domain. The theatre and St.
Thar ain't been nary sheriff's sale, nor a man tuk ter jail this hull week." "Iry Seymour wuz a gonter sell aout Elnathan Hamlin this week, but somehow he hain't got tew it," said Abner, dryly. "I callate he heard some news from Barrington baout Tuesday." "Iry mout's well give up his comishin ez depity sheriff an try ter git inter some honest trade," remarked Israel.
There was also a thrilling moment when Iry thrust his head through the railings of the new porch. Satisfied with his outlook, he would fain have withdrawn, but was prevented by an unaccountable swelling of his pate.
We took it out in gum spruce and pepsin. Iry swallered his'n every time, and Miss Hudgers was afeard he'd be stuck together inside. "'Aug. 9-23. Vawdevil Theayter. 5 dollers. Pade. They put it on fer a sketch. "'Aug. 25. Mister Cotter. 25 cents. Pade. He's a brakeman friend of the Boarder. He wore it to a maskyrade. "'Aug. 27. Poleece. 35 cents. Pade." "Police!" ejaculated John faintly.
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