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Updated: May 13, 2025
"I want to show you how you can't do those things the old your housekeeper was yearnin' to do. Y' see, you can't get a 'hired' man nearer than Leeson Butte. You can't get him in less'n two weeks. You can't do the chores yourself, an' that old your housekeeper ain't fit to do anything but make hash. Then you can't let the stock go hungry.
An' so, when I received it, why, I jest come out here to meditate. You can see it from where you set, doctor. It's a purty sizeable one, and I'm mighty suspicious of it." The doctor cleared his throat. "Yas, I can see it, Enoch of co'se." "Could you jedge of it, doctor? That is, of its capabilities, I mean?" "Why, no, of co'se not not less'n I'd taste it, an' you can do that ez well ez I can.
Anyway the Beans were on hand when the tomato bisque was served next evenin', and in less'n a week F. Hallam was turnin' out a perfectly good freehand study of a lovely lady standin' graceful beside a Never-smoke oil stove no-wicks, automatic feed, send for our catalogue and other lively compositions along that line.
Robert Ellins tells me this is his night at the club, so all I has to do is hop a Fifth Avenue stage, and in less'n twenty minutes he's broke away from his billiard game and is listenin' while I state the situation to him. "Course," says I, "it would bump Auntie some, but seems to me it's comin' to her." "Quite a reasonable conclusion," says he. "It ain't as if she needed Vee," I goes on.
"Git the old man some milk," he told Johnnie; and to Cis, "You put on your hat and take these out, and don't you come back with less'n a dollar." "A a dollar?" She began to weep. Though she did not yet understand what he meant her to do. "Yes, a dollar." Barber stayed beside the window, the roses still at his back. "You heard me! Sell 'em." She turned toward her room.
"We'd better try to catch Apple and all get on the motor-bike," suggested Glen. "Can't catch Apple unless he takes notion to turn an' see we want him. Think we can hide, I do." "Hide the car, too?" "Hide the car. Saw place on way out. It's less'n mile from here. There's creek pretty near dry, and bridge over it. But there's ford by side of bridge, too. We forded it coming out."
About three days after this, a slick lookin' feller came ridin' in about sun-down, an' of course they booked him for supper an' bed; a stranger didn't want to expose himself to a meal at that outfit, less'n he was in the mood to eat.
Moore likes to joke the same as you do, Mr. Dexter," said Janice, quietly. "Ahem! You sartainly have got some of us goin'," said the driver, whimsically. "Look at Jase Day! I never did think nothin' less'n Gabriel's trump would start Jase. But yest'day I'm jiggered if I didn't see him mendin' his pasture fence. And the old Day house looks like another place that's right. How d'you do it?"
An' I'll see that he don't find nothin' bigger'n turkey too; less'n he's too durned inquisitive; then I'll be ." He finished with an evil grin. "You all tell Cap I've done gone ter hunt with Mistah Whitley ef I don't show up." And beating his mule's ribs vigorously with his heels, he jogged away down the road, while his companion turned and rode back up the little valley.
"I don't know," Julia hesitated. "What d'ye think, Mama?" "I think he's got his gall along," Mrs. "One night! and to learn the whole thing for that. I'll tell you what to tell him you tell him this: you say that you can't do it for one cent less'n a hundred dollars!" "Lay down, Towse!" said Connie Girard, and Mrs.
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