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Updated: June 13, 2025
"`No more I will, says he; `but it'll serve your turn to know that a barometer is a glass for measurin' the weight o' the air, and, somehow or other, that lets ye know wots a-coming. If the mercury in the glass rises high, all's right. If it falls uncommon low very sudden, look out for squalls; that's all.
snarlin'. Bless yo' life, all about a woman, too, every last word of it. Well, well, meanin' no disrespect to you, Susan, it's a queer thing that a man can't be born, married, or buried without a woman gittin' herself mixed up in the business. If she ain't wrappin' you in swaddlin' bands, you may be sho' she's measurin' off yo' windin'-sheet. Mark my words, Mr.
In the old days w'en things were carelesser an' land wasn't much, the old cock of all had the surveyor that was gone on his daughter measurin' the land, an' got him to slice in great pieces by false measurement, an' worked the lives out of convicts as big a brute as the Parrys. That's the breed of the swells, an' I have a horror of them.
"I do not consider it right myself to condemn others, and never do it on principle, for " "Thar you go agin, measurin' other folks' corns right away by your own chilblains, marm," interrupted Mr Lathrope. "It's allers what you'd do; and you never kinder give a thought to what t'other people would have to say in the matter! I guess you're a bit narrow-minded, excuse me, marm."
And if I'd had the curosity of some wimmen it would drove me into a caniption fit. And more'n a dozen times I see him and Uncle Sime down by the back paster on the creek pacin' to and fro as if they wuz measurin' land.
"Jim was a mighty big man in size and principles," said Lawler. "Now you're shoutin'! There wasn't no man bigger'n Jim, sideways, edgeways, or up an' down. I reckon any man would have a hard time measurin' up to Jim Lefingwell. Mebbe that's what's wrong with Warden. Folks has got Jim Lefingwell on their minds, an' they're not givin' Warden what's comin' to him, them bein' biased."
"No," sez I, "not to you, but if you had to set for hours and hours and hear her verses read to you on every subject on heaven, and earth, and the seas, and see her a measurin' of it with a stick to get the lines the right length; if you had to go through all this, mebby you would meditate on the subject before you took it for a summer's job."
"S'pose when she's measurin' out what he's asked for, he puts his hand into the big basket on her other side, maybe more than once, too; how'll that do for helping himself to long measure, hey?" said Robert. "How do you know?" asked Jim, trying to control his rising fury until he had all the facts. "I've seen him do it more than once, an' more than twice," replied Rob.
"'No more I will, says he; 'but it'll serve your turn to know that a barometer is a glass for measurin' the weight o' the air, and, somehow or other, that lets ye know wot's a-coming. If the mercury in the glass rises high, all's right. If it falls uncommon low very sudden, look out for squalls; that's all.
"Yes, mum! I jes' done see 'em! Dey's gwineter kill my Marse Harry!" Kate sprang up. "Where are they?" she cried, shivering with fear. The old man's face had told the story. "Out by de greenhouse dey was measurin' off de groun' dey's got de colonel's pistols you kin see 'em from de winder!" In an instant she had parted the heavy silk curtains and lifted the sash.
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