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'Fore he thought what he was a-doin', he got down on his knees jest's he used to do 'fore he got angry at God, and was goin' to thank him for helpin' him to save that child. Then he rec'lected. It come back to him who God was, and how he'd seed his head, with the ha'sh stony face up on the mountain, and that made him look up to see it ag'in. And oh! what do you think he see?
Reuben and Jane and Draxy were all crying when Mrs. Carr came back with her pitcher of smoking tea. Reuben tried to explain to her why they were crying, but she interrupted him with, "Well, now, I understand it jest's if 'twas to me it'd all happened; an' I think it's lucky after all that Mis' Melville wasn't here, for she's dreadful easy upset if people take on.
You know who I mean by the selectmen jest's well as I do. I'd be obliged to ye ef ye'd tell me the way an' drop that Bible talk good every-day English is good enough fer me!" "In good sooth, dame," he replied, "'tis not every day I hear such English as yours." He paused a moment in thought. This was May-day a season of revelry and good-natured practical joking.
Embarrassed, and at the same time incensed at their timidity, the Constable hasted to dismiss them, with the general assurance that all would be well that his nephew's indisposition was a trifling complaint, exaggerated by a conceited physician, and by his own want of care and that the message of the Archbishop, so unceremoniously delivered, was but the consequence of their mutual and friendly familiarity, which induced them sometimes, for the jest's sake, to reverse or neglect the ordinary forms of intercourse.
It seemed to me, that MacGregor wished me, as a stranger, to understand, that if he submitted to the tone which his kinsman assumed, it was partly out of deference to the rights of hospitality, but still more for the jest's sake. As the Bailie set down his cup he recognised me, and giving me a cordial welcome on my return, he waived farther communication with me for the present.
"The's no sort o' use in drivin' folks to death as are kind to ye. Sit right down an' rest now, an' I'll tell ye all a story thet hez a bearin' right on that point." She turned to the four maids of honor seated behind her. "Now you girls can jest's well come an' set in front o' me while I'm talkin'. I'll like it a heap better, I'm sure."
"A man who can't mend a hole in his own donkey can never demean himself by patching up my great kettle." "Lord, sir!" said the tinker, archly, "if I had known that poor Neddy had had two sitch friends in court, I'd have seen he vas a gintleman, and treated him as sitch." "/Corpo di Bacco!/" quoth the doctor, "though that jest's not new, I think the tinker comes very well out of it."
"No more'n I hev!" Rebecca exclaimed, hotly. "Nor you won't, nuther. Ye might jest's well make up yer mind to it thet the whole business is foolish folderols. We're a nice couple o' geese, we are, to come out here to play 'Here we go round the mulberry bush' with the North Pole an' all along of a shif'less, notorious slave o' rum!"
"Ef I'd only known I was comin' this fur back!" he exclaimed, as he talked to himself that he might feel less lonely. "Ef I'd only known, I could hev brought a heap of other things jest's well as not. Might hev taught 'em 'bout telegraphin' an' telephones. Could ha' given 'em steam-engines an' parlor matches. By ginger!" he exclaimed, "I b'lieve I've got some parlor matches. Great Jehosaphat!
"Sure have," he agreed languidly; "from now on, though, I guess we'll just have to take a leaf out of Micawber's book 'wait for something to turn up, eh, Reddy, my old son?" There was no answer. That young worthy, utterly exhausted, had drifted into the arms of Morpheus. A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it.
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