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"Never mind, Joe," said Polly, running away from her piano, to pull him out straight and fix him nice again, "you'll do it fine next time, I guess." "Ben jiggled it," announced Joel, stoutly, and with a rueful face as he saw the broken ring. "No, I didn't," declared Ben; "I kept it as steady as could be. But you sprawled your legs and knocked it out of my hand.
Joel did as ordered by the stranger in the name of the druids of Karnak. The call was carried from mouth to mouth, from the nearest to the most distant tribes; all were notified to meet that evening in the forest of Karnak when the moon rose.
But we'll be fighting all the time up to the blowing of the last whistle that tells the time of the fourth period has expired." "Tell them what Coach Hooker said this very afternoon, Jack?" begged Joel. "Please do, Jack," the fair Mollie pleaded; while the other two looked so wistful that Jack could not have declined had he wanted to, which was far from the fact. "Oh!
Stand out of the way; I'll have this bed over there in a jiffy," rolling it into the center of the small room as he spoke. David sprang to one side lightly. "Whew! what a dust you kick up," he cried, snapping his clothes gingerly. "So you are in your best toggery," exclaimed Joel, standing straight, his labors over the bed being completed.
Here Aunt Betsy's voice grew lower in its tone, and Morris looked up with real interest, while she went on: "There's Joel Upham you know Joel keeps a tin shop now, and seats the folks in meetin'. He asked me once for my company, and to be smart I told him 'no, when all the time I meant 'yes, thinkin' he would ask ag'in, but he didn't, and the next I knew he was keepin' company with Patty Adams, now his wife.
"Never did!" echoed Phronsie, shaking her yellow head positively. "Polly, I want some more mush, I do." "Yes, I did, too," spoke up Joel, loudly. "Joel!" reproved Mother Pepper. "Well, I did, Mamsie," repeated Joel, in a very injured tone. "I called just like this, 'come quick! and ride in Miss Parrott's coach; so there!"
"I have made you my heir," said she, tossing the deed of gift and the will into Maude's lap. "I've made you my heir; and the day you're eighteen you'll be worth five thousand dollars, besides havin' the interest to use between this time and that. Then, if I ever die; you'll have five thousand more. Joel Blodgett didn't keep thirty cows and peddle milk for nothin'."
"Let him go," begged Joel, just as much distressed; "he won't touch the bag, I don't believe, again, Candace." "Oh, I won't, I won't," promised Van wildly. "I don't want the bag; do let me go, Candace." "Yer see, Mas'r Joel was a-helpin' me," said Candace, slowly releasing Van's jacket collar, "an' 'twarn't none 'o his fault dat he stopped kerryin' de letters."
Other homesteads, similarly constructed and occupied by numerous families who cultivated lands in common, lay scattered here and there over the landscape and composed the ligniez, or tribe of Karnak, of which Joel was chosen chief.
"Now then, I'll fix you up as good as ever," and he rummaged his ample pockets for the things he had thrust into them for this very work. "I ain't hurt," said Joel, wriggling furiously. "Stand still, Joe," said the little doctor, coolly, "for I'm going to patch you up, so that you're decent to see your mother. Aren't you ashamed to get this way when Polly, poor brave girl, has been so sick?
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