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But Bobby shook his head and carried the form back to the composing stone. Four days he worked over the first page of the Weekly Eagle. Johnny expostulated, stormed, pleaded with tears in his eyes. "Let's let the whole thing slide," he begged. "All we get out of it anyway is less'n a dollar and think of all the time we're wasting. That job for Mr.
"I wouldn't do nothin' like that, Sandy," he said, ominously. "No man don't kiss my brat less'n she air wantin' his kisses. Tessibel said as how when ye git Bishop an' the five thousand, ye can come back.... Today, she ain't feelin' well, an' I air goin' to ask ye to go along home, or wherever ye were pointed fer when ye stopped 'ere." Then Daddy Skinner opened the door.
"I ought to do that, of course; but in some way or other I just don't seem to be able to to manage it." "Why in the world not?" the mystified Lohr inquired. "I could hardly tell you 'less'n it is to say that when you been with one boss all your life it's so so kind of embarrassing to quit him, I just can't make up my mind to go and speak to him about it.
You'll have the station crew out after us, and they'll guy me till I can't rest. Shut up! If you don't, I'll I'll swim ashore and leave you. "I was takin' big chances, as I look at it now. He might have drawed a bowie knife or a lasso on me; 'cordin' to his yarns he'd butchered folks for a good sight less'n that. But he kept quiet this time, only gurglin' some when the ark tilted.
With unsteady hands he refolded his deed and put it into his pocket, then he turned about and started back up the village street toward the bank. Tump stared after him a moment and presently called out: "Heah, nigger, whut you gwine do?" A moment later he repeated to his friend's back: "Look heah, nigger, I 'vise you ag'inst anything you's gwine do, less'n you's ready to pass in you' checks!"
He got the `wet' jest as good as I can, an', if he drawed the `ye-ar' out a little, still any blockhead could a-told what he was sayin', an' in a voice pretty an' clear as a bell. Then he got love-sick, an' begged for comp'ny until he broke me all up. An' if I'd a-been a hen redbird I wouldn't a-been so long comin'. Had me pulverized in less'n no time!
Sebastian, and by all acounts the Frenchies'll be drove out of Spain in less'n a week." There was silence in Boutigo's van for a full minute; and then the old woman spoke from the corner: "Well, go on, Sam, and tell the finish to the company." "Is there more to tell?" I asked.
I've heard no less'n eight receivers come down so far.... Two of 'em went up then, did you hear 'em?... Sartin.... I want to hire a team to go over home with.... To-night Sartin.... I don't care.... Yes, you will, too.... Yes, you will... Send my man back with it to-morrow... I don't care what it is, so it's got four legs and wheels...." And so on for at least five minutes.
"Five dollars!" snickered a Crane boy, diving through the crowd, and proceeding to stand on his head in a cleared space beyond. "That's wuth less'n Miss Lucindy's hoss!" Hiram Cole considered again, one lean hand stroking his cheek. "Five fifty " he announced. "Well, I guess 'tis five hunderd, arter all! Anybody must want to invest, though, to put all their income into perishable cow-flesh!"
The pathos of the soft voice was touching. "I wasn't to give this las' one to you less'n he neveh come back. An Mis' Virgie, Doctoh Carey won't neveh come back no mo'. But I kaint tell you yet jus' why he done taken hisself to the Fillippians, not yet." "Why do you think he will never come back? You think Thaine will come home again, don't you?" Virginia queried. "Oh, yas'm! yas'm!
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