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"I reckon we'll hitch hosses," said Dan'l, with a smile. A few weeks later, one evening, Dan'l Borem sat with his sister alone. John Lummox, who was now residing with them, was attending a social engagement. Mrs. Bigsby knew that Dan'l had something to communicate, but knew that he would do so in his own way. "Speakin' o' hoss trades," he began. "We WASN'T and we ain't goin' to," said Mrs.
He walk like so fashion!" and Koku, who had followed the young inventor, imitated the limping gait of the colored man with such a queer effect that Tom could not help laughing, and the stranger smiled. "Ef I gits holt on yo' ef I does, yo' great, big, overgrown lummox, Ah'll Ah'll " began the colored man, stammeringly. "There. That will do now!" interrupted Tom. "Don't quarrel in here.
"No, he couldn't either; he couldn't and not be responsible if the other end died, which it would. In my opinion that man ain't in his right mind." "In my opinion he hain't got any mind." No. 3 said: "Well, he's a lummox, anyway." "That's what he is;" said No. 4. "He's a labrick just a Simon-pure labrick, if there was one." "Yes, sir, he's a dam fool. That's the way I put him up," said No. 5.
"I am quite willing to abandon my position in his favor, now," said Lummox with alacrity. "No," said Dan'l, rubbing his chin argumentatively; "the only way for us to do is to circumvent him like in a hoss trade with suthin' unexpected. When he thinks you're goin' to sleep in the shafts you'll run away; and when he think's I'm vicious I'll let a woman or a child drive me."
And though the execrable lummox immediately propelled Miss Pratt forward by her elbow to hear the descriptive remarks of the Swedish lady named Anna, William's soul remained uplifted and entranced.
"You shore took yore time about comin'," drawled Marie. "I didn't know but what I'd be burned up with the rest of the jail. You big lummox! You don't have to bust my wrist, do you? Go easy, or I'll claw yore face off!" Once outside they were immediately surrounded by the townsfolk. Most of them were laughing. But Jake Rule was not laughing. "Good joke on you, Jake," grinned a friend.
Bigsby to Lummox, "Dan'l might hev done all this without frightenin' the poor old critter into a nervous fever, chillin' her through by makin' her walk two miles through the snow, and keepin' her on the ragged edge o' despair for two mortal hours! But it's his humorous way." "Did he give any reason for being so lenient to the widow?" asked Lummox.
Grandmother always said, 'The great lummox lumbered off into the bushes like a gawk of a boy who's been caught in mischief, She waited just a minute and then ran like lightning along the path through the woods to the neighbors and got the medicine." The story was evidently over, the last tomato was peeled. Mrs.
It did not occur to them that the yokel who stood warming himself by the stove might be the man they were after. But the gamekeeper's wife was quick to see his peril. She was baking bread and had just put the loaves into the oven with a long-handled spade. "Here, you lummox!" she cried, and whacked him soundly over the back with it, "what are ye standing there gaping at?
"How do you do, Teunis!" said she, and paused for some one to help her in. Judge Stone waited a moment, and gave her a boost at the elbow as she skipped up the step. I could have bitten myself. I was the person who should have helped her in. I was a lummox, a lunkhead, a lubber, a fool, a saphead I was everything that was awkward and clumsy and thumb-hand-sided!
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