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Watson, as she beat up the bread-batter downstairs, "she's that light-hearted and free from care, and her eighteen years old. She's like somethin' that don't belong on earth, with her two big eyes shinin' like lamps, and the way she sings through the house, settin' the table or scourin' the milk pails or mendin' a coat for the boys it don't seem natural.
Had 'em doin' most every sort of rough work in my time, diggin' ditches, mendin' roads, cuttin' fence posts all that sort of thing. Guess it's about all I'm fit for." The effort died lugubriously and he sat, waiting. He hated personal confidences and there hung a most particularly uncomfortable one in the offing. The silence was like a living thing.
"I kind of hate to think o' your bangein' here and boardin' there, and one old woman mendin', and the other settin' ye down to meals that like's not don't agree with ye." "Lor', now, Mis' Tobin, le's not fuss round no longer," said Mr. Briley impatiently. "You know you covet me same's I do you." "I don't nuther. Don't you go an' say fo'lish things you can't stand to."
"Ye seem to boast yerselves 't ye don't belong to nothin' down here," continued the admiral; "but ye does. Ye belongs to a shyer town. Ye orter have some pride. 'S I sums it up, be you goin' to pay yer rates, or work 'em out mendin' yer roads?"
Dudley was making belief be this time to look out at window, wi' his back to me, and I kept looking straight on Madame, and she said, "They're mendin' my broken glass, Mary," walking between them and me, and coming close up to me very quick; and so she marched me backward out o' the door, prating all the time.
I don't want no mendin' dis time o' day." Finding that Aunt Matilda was so much opposed to any carpenter-work on her premises at that time, Harry went home, while Kate remained to get the old woman some breakfast. One morning, about a week after the rainy Saturday, Mrs. Loudon came over to see Aunt Matilda. She found the old woman lying on the bed, and evidently worried about something.
"I think 'bout Tommy first," said Lovey Mary. "Yes, you certainly do yer part by him. If my childern wore stockin's an' got as many holes in 'em as he does, I'd work buttonholes in 'em at the start fer the toes to come through. But even Tommy wants somethin' besides darns. Why don't you let him go barefoot on Sundays, too, an' take the time you been mendin' fer him to play with him?
"'Hol' on dar, Brer Rabbit, sez Brer Fox, sezee. "'I ain't got time, Brer Fox, sez Brer Rabbit, sezee, sorter mendin' his licks. "'I wanter have some confab wid you, Brer Rabbit, sez Brer Fox, sezee. "'All right, Brer Fox, but you better holler fum whar you stan'. I'm monstus full er fleas dis mawnin', sez Brer Rabbit, sezee.
'Thin I'll sodder it up agin wid the help uv the priest, says I. 'That ye will not do, says she; 'wance broken, 'tis broke beyond mendin'. 'Go an wid ye, Mary Haggarty darlin', says I, laughin' in her face, 'hivin is y'r home. 'Yes, I'll be goin' there, William Connor, says she, 'I'll be goin' there betimes, I hope. 'How will it be? says I; 'be fire or wateer, Mary darlin'? says I. 'Ye shall know whin it comes, says she, wid a quare look in her eye."
I wuz a settin' in my room a mendin' up a rip in my pardner's best coat, previous to packin' in his trunk, when all of a sudden Miss Flamm's hired girl came in a cryin', and sez I, "What is the matter?" And sez she, "Ah! Miss Flamm has sent for you and Mr. Allen to come over there right away. There has been a axident." "A axident!" sez I. "Yes," sez she.
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