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He did not trust himself to answer, but drew the covering from his own treasure, and began his part of the delicious snapping and screwing. "Where's Roxy?" called Jont Marshall "Can't do without her alto. Anybody seen her?"
Las' Sunday, I set with Jont Marshall, an' every time I sung a note, he dug into me with his elbow, till I thought I should ha' fell out the pew-door. My voice is jest as good as ever 'twas, an' sixty-five year ago come spring, I begun to set in the seats." The coin and pennyroyal changed ownership, and he tottered away, chattering to himself in his senile fashion.
When he did muster courage to push open the vestry door, the Widder Poll sat alone by the stove, still unwinding her voluminous wrappings, and the singers had very pointedly withdrawn by themselves. Brad and Jont had begun to tune their fiddles, and the first prelusive snapping of strings at once awakened Heman's nerves to a pleasant tingling; he was excited at the nearness of the coming joy.
For, shy as they were in general company, they chatted together with an intense earnestness all day long; and it was one of the stock questions in our neighborhood, when the social light burned low, "What under the sun do you s'pose Dave and Jont find to talk about?" Alas! again the world had builded foolishly; for with early manhood, they fell in love with the same round-cheeked school-teacher.
"Who's goin' to play?" "Brad Freeman an' Jont Marshall agreed to play fust an' second fiddle." Heman paused a moment, and straightened himself with an air of conscious pride; then he added, "They've asked me to play the bass-viol."
"Nay, you know you're flig to come up again," she said. And the man went on. Mrs. Dakin, going up her yard, spied Mrs. Morel taking the ashes to the ash-pit. "I reckon Minton's knocked off, missis," she cried. "Isn't it sickenin!" exclaimed Mrs. Morel in wrath. "Ha! But I'n just seed Jont Hutchby." "They might as well have saved their shoe-leather," said Mrs. Morel.
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