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"See here!" shouted Sim Hicks, abandoning all caution, "ain't you going to finish this little job you've been paid for?" "It is finished, but it wasn't stipulated in the contract as to who was going to do the finishing." "You " "Shet that trap of yours, Sim. If you don't it's li'ble to get another catch," threatened the Captain. Hicks eyed the seaman, rubbed his swollen nose, and backed away. Mr.
"Seth's a far-seein' boy, an' a good boy in 'most everything," she said, in a tone indicating wholehearted affection; "but he's like most folks with head-pieces, I guess. He don't stop at things which it is given to men to understand. Ef I wus a man I'd say of Seth, he's li'ble to git boostin' his nose into places not built fer a nose like his.
He seemed to understand, although he was not looking her way. "Don't worrit the gal, Ma," he said, in his gentle fashion, so that Rosebud felt like dropping the bandages and fleeing from the room. "Say, jest git right to it an' fix me up. I 'low ther's li'ble to be work doin' 'fore this night's out." "God a-mussy, I hope not, Seth, boy!" the old woman said, with a deep intake of breath.
Pore feller, he's patient as he always is, but he's all mussed-up an' broken shocking; shot in the side an' got bones smashed up. Howsum, he's goin' on all right, an' we hope for the best." "I 'lows that's neat," Rube said, lighting his pipe. "'Tain't jest what I'd fancy. Sounds kind o' familiar. An' I guess it's li'ble to scare her some." "Well?" "Wal, I tho't we'd put it easy-like."
'If annything happens to this man, th' case is li'ble to be taken up be th' ex-prisidents' association; an' they're num'rous enough to make throuble f'r us, he says. 'But, he says, 'I'll do what I can f'r ye, me ol' frind, he says. 'Give us th' best ye have, says Jools; 'an', if ye've nawthin' to do afther ye close up, ye might dhrop in, he says, 'an' have a manifesto with us, he says.
"Well, that's the first good news I've heard since we started on this lunatic fandango," said the Cap'n, with soulful thanksgiving. "Do you think there's any in this last mess that 'll be li'ble to come if they're asked?" "I have been gradually working down the scale of greatness, but I'm afraid I have still aimed too high," confessed Mr. Tate. "Yet the effort is not lost by any means."
Why, if they laughed at her name she was li'ble to grab hold of the fust thing come to hand, flatiron or frying pan or chunk of stove wood or anything, and let 'em have it rattlety-bang-jing.
Y' see wimmin's li'ble to fool you some. When they knows you're fixed on 'em they jest makes you hate yourself fer a foolhead. It's in the natur' of 'em. They're most like young fillies 'fore they're broke I sez it wi'out disrespec'. Y' see a wummin ain't got a roarin' time of it in this world.
He drove round by the lawyer's house, and stopped at his gate just as Putney pushed his lawn-mower up to it, in his exercise of the instrument before breakfast. Elbridge leaned out of the carryall, and asked, in a low confidential voice, "If J. Milton Northwick was to come back here, on the sly, say, to see his family, and I was to help him git off again, would I be li'ble?" "Why?" asked Putney.
"You'd best tell 'em where you're staying, Clemmie, or you're li'ble to hear some things not intended for your ears." She bridled past him and swept into the church. There was a brief pause in the buzz, but the hubbub that followed was doubled in intensity. That evening while Miss Pipkin was placing the food on the table she appeared worried.
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