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Wall, when we drove in, I see Elburtus a liftin' and a luggin', a loadin' a big barrell into a double wagon for a farmer; and I says, "What under the sun is Elburtus Gansey a doin'?" And Josiah says, in a gay tone, "He is a electionerin', Samantha: see him sweat," says he. "Salt is heavy, and political life is wearin', when anybody goes into it deep, and tackles it in the way Elburtus tackles it."
"Well, just let me catch you luggin' off my property without my consent in writin' an' we'll see who does all th' bowin', Scraggsy. I'll cut your greedy little heart out, that's what I'll do." "Well, then," said Scraggs, "you get your blasted property off'n my ship, an' get yourself off an' don't never come back." "F'r th' love o' common sense," bawled Mr. Gibney, "what do you think I am?
"Now, wot I wants to know is wot we 're goin' to do to you t'ree chaps?" he continued in a judicial tone. "What for?" Joe demanded hotly. "For being robbed of our kites?" "Not at all, not at all," the leader responded politely; "but for luggin' kites round these quarters an' causin' all this unseemly disturbance. It 's disgraceful; that 's wot it is disgraceful."
Jest twice a year, he sez, to put a pail of water in the upper tank, two pails of water a year to insure summer warmth, no dirt, no noise, not much like luggin' in wood from mornin' till night, breakin' your back cuttin' and splittin' it and litterin' up the house."
"Same as they had over that surplus in the town treasury, hey?" inquired the Cap'n. "What's that you're luggin' in that paper as though 'twas aigs?" "It's one of my plug hats that I was goin' to lend you," explained his friend, cheerily. "I've rigged it up with a cockade. I figger that we can't any of us be too festal on a day like this.
It was Herbert who broke the silence and renewed the altercation. "How far you expeck me to go on luggin' this ole basket?" he demanded bitterly. "All the way home?" "I don't care how far," she informed him. "You can throw it away if you want to. It's certainly no propaty of mine, thank you!" "Look here, didn't you promise you'd carry it home?" "I said I spoke to. I didn't say I would carry it."
I was jest a thinkin' this, and a thinkin' that though I had jest told Josiah, from a sense of duty, that "he had broke that pocket down by luggin' round so much stuff in it, and there was no sense in actin' as if he could carry round a hull car-load of things in his vest-pocket;" though I had spoken to him thus, from a sense of duty, tryin' to keep him straight and upright in his demeaner, still, I was a thinkin' how pleasant it wuz to work for them you loved, and that loved you: for though he had snapped me up considerable snappish, and said "he should carry round in his pockets as much as he was a minter; and if I didn't want to mend it, I could let it alone," and had throwed it down in the corner, and slammed the door considerable hard when he went out, still, I knew that this slight pettishness was only the light bubbles that rises above the sparkling wine.
And say, this is kind of a joke, too, my luggin' you 'way over here, ain't it, eh? Haw, haw!" Mr. Bangs' attempt at a laugh was feeble. "But what shall I do now?" he asked, anxiously. "Well, that's the question, ain't it? Hum... hum... let's see. Sorry I can't take you back to the Centre myself.
And I warned J. Bayard that if he didn't quit luggin' his punk philanthropy specimens into my studio I'd bar him out entirely. Let's see, that was early in the summer, and it must have been just before Labor Day that I broke away for a week or so to run up into the White Mountains and bring back Sadie and little Sully.
I came pretty nigh doin' that very thing. I bought a five-pound bag of corn meal yesterday and fetched it home from the store all done up in a nice neat bundle. Comin' through the shop here I had it under my arm, and hum er well, to anybody else it couldn't have happened, but, bein' Jed Shavin's Winslow, I was luggin' the thing with the top of the bag underneath.
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