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Updated: May 2, 2025
"That's true, Luke; I forgot that when I spoke, an' there's more gospel-smacks comin', I'm told, presented in the same way by lib'ral folk." "It's my belief," said Luke, with emphasis, at the same time striking his right knee with his hand, "it's my belief that afore long we'll have a gospel-ship for every fleet on the North Sea." "Right you are, boy," said Joe, "an' the sooner the better.
I didn't want no patent on't, an' I was willin' to let some other feller git a piece. So one mornin', week before last let's see, week ago Tuesday it was, an' a mighty nice mornin' it was, too one o' them days that kind o' lib'ral up your mind I allowed to hitch an' drive up past the deakin's an' back, an' mebbe git somethin' to strengthen my faith, et cetery, in case I run acrost him.
When I wasn't mad I used to feel real sorry for Doc, he tried so hard; but feelin' sorry for him didn't help him none, and it was kind of ridiculous to see him. "One day I asked Doc why he didn't tell ma and the rest of Kilo what he believed in, and he said that Kilo folks couldn't understand sich things, bein' mostly born and bred in the Methodist Church, and not lib'ral like he was.
"It come purty nigh keeping me from marrying Doc. You see, Doc ain't like common folks. Don's got sich broad ideas of things. Lib'ral, he calls it, but I name it jist common foolish. He's got to give every new-fangled scheme a show. I guess, off and on, Doc's believed most every queer name in the dictionary, and some that ain't been put in yet.
"Had those advent'rous spirits, who explore Through ocean's trackless wastes, the far-sought shore Whether of wealth insatiate, or of power, Conquerors who waste, or ruffians who devour: Had these possess'd, O Cook! thy gentle mind, Thy love of arts, thy love of humankind; Had these pursu'd thy mild and lib'ral plan, Discoverers had not been a curse to man!
Lib'ral an' good-natured, but able to hold their own with the natives. We missed 'em, last year; but t'other day I seen ol' Hucks, that keeps their house for 'em he 'n' his wife an' Hucks said they was cumin' to spend this summer at the farm an' he was lookin' fer 'em any day. The way they togged up thet farmhouse is somethin' won'erful, I'm told.
She's a powerful strong woman Miss Tranter, an' many's the larker what's felt 'er 'and on 'is collar a-chuckin' 'im out o' the 'Trusty Man' neck an' crop for sayin' somethin' what aint ezackly agreeable to 'er feelin's. She don't stand no nonsense, an' though she's lib'ral with 'er pennorths an' pints she don't wait till a man's full boozed 'fore lockin' up the tap-room.
"He came through after Freedom and went to the 'Sheds' first. I couldn't 'magine what was going on, but they came runnin' to tell me and what a time we had. "Linkum went to the smoke house and opened the door and said 'Help yourselves; take what you need; cook yourselves a good meall and we sho' had a celebration!" "The Dr. didn't care; he was lib'ral.
Dale had promised the baby boy in his cradle "the advantages of a lib'ral education," and he intended to act up to this promise largely. "It is my wish," he said, "that the two of them shall enjoy all that I was myself deprived of."
'I thought he was a good, broad, lib'ral man, an' it turns out he's a cheap skate, he says. 'We made too much fuss over him, he says. 'To think, he says, 'iv him takin' th' house we give him an' tur-rnin' it over to his wife, he says. ''Tis scand'lous, he says.
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