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Tuck, as she placed a very scrappy supper before William, "like dust is as human as guinea pigs. Where you say it can't get in, it jest breeds." "Now you sit down and take it easy, Mrs. Tuck," said William, who had married late in life and never got on familiar terms with his wife. "I reckon them men-folks ain't so took with reddin' up as you think they be."
We didn't expect you, and the men-folks is all in the lot. Didn't you find your ride very warm?" "Not very; and if it had been, the pleasure of seeing you, Mrs. Perkins, would more than compensate for any annoyance from the heat." "You are so polite, Judge," replied Mrs. Perkins, simpering. "I declare you are equal to a Frenchman."
Petrie, taking up the tale again. "How many of us us housekeepers, I mean insist upon having things as clean as they should be right around our own back doors?" "Wa-al," groaned Aunt 'Mira, "it takes suthin' like an airthquake to start some of the men-folks " "Why wait for them?" interposed the demure Janice again, knowing that her aunt would not object if she interrupted her.
"It's queer, like lots of names men get in these parts. An' it'll stick. Wade's been here twice; once as he was passin' with the hounds, an' the other night. I like him, Columbine. He's true-blue, for all his strange name. My men-folks took to him like ducks to water." "I'm glad. I took to him almost like that," rejoined Columbine. "He has the saddest face I ever saw." "Sad? Wal, yes.
This proposal came from a sister named Maria Sharp, who had valiantly offered the year before to move the smoky chimney with her own hands, if the "men-folks" wouldn't. But though the incendiary suggestion of altering the pitch was received with applause at the moment, subsequent study of the situation proved that such a proceeding was entirely beyond the modest means of the society.
Now she's married to Justin, she'll be the makin' of him, or I miss my guess. You can't do a thing with men-folks without they're right alongside where you can keep your eye and hand on 'em. Justin's handsome and good and stiddy; all he needs is some nice woman to put starch into him. The Edgewood Peabodys never had a mite o' stiffenin' in 'em, limp as dishrags, every blessed one!
"Like brook trout, Mis' Ford?" asked the girl, upon one entrance. "You men-folks like 'em, too?" Assured that they were considered a great treat, Mattie advised: "Well, you just wait! I know where there's a lot, in a basket in the pool. Pa catched 'em to have 'em ready and I'll hike after 'em to onct. You like to go along, Helena?"
I lay in the Master's lap, wrapped in my blanket, and, spite of the stove, shivering awful; but I always shiver before a fight: I can't help gettin' excited. While the men-folks were a-flashing their money and taking their last drink at the bar, a little Irish groom in gaiters came up to me and give me the back of his hand to smell, and scratched me behind the ears.
They didn't keep any men-folks now, nor but one cow; Hetty milked her, and drove her to pastur', and fed the chickens, and braided hats, and did chores. The farm was all sold off; 'twas poor land, and didn't fetch much; but what there was went to keep 'em in vittles and firin'. I guess Hetty 'arnt most of what they lived on, arter all.
I dunno how you're goin' to git along with men-folks, if ye offer 'em the whip-hand. They'll take it, anyways. Well, don't you want to know where I come on this ring?" Letty had taken a few hasty steps toward the house. "Yes, I do," owned she, turning about. "Where was it?" "Well, Sammy was in swimmin', an' he dove into the Old Hole, to see'f't had any bottom to 't.
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