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'Well, Cripplestraw, how is it to-day? said Festus, with socially-superior heartiness. 'Middlin', considering, Maister Derriman. And how's yerself? 'Fairish. Well, now, see and clean these military boots of mine. I'll cock my foot up on this bench. This pigsty of my uncle's is not fit for a soldier to come into. 'Yes, Maister Derriman, I will. No, 'tis not fit, Maister Derriman.
"Well, I'm pretty fair to middlin'." The man's face, sunken in his feeble chest far below the level of Thomas's eyes, looked up at him with a sort of whimsical patience. His back was bent like a bow; he had had curvature of the spine for years, from a fall when a young man. "Glad to hear that," returned Thomas.
We wanted the story and wanted it at once, for we understood that Hughie went to bed with the crows and we stood in terror lest this huge bundle of pockets with its unearthly voice should vanish into thin air. "D'ye know McShane?" he asked. "Aye, middlin'." "Ax 'im what Hughie Thornton towld 'im wan night be th' hour ov midnight an' afther. Ax 'im, I say, an' he'll swear be th' Holy Virgin an' St.
But there was a slip up somewheres, for all to once the depot wagon brings her to the Old Home House, she hires a room, and settles down to stay till the season closed, which would be in about a fortn't. "From the very fust she played her cards for Jonadab. He meant to be middlin' average frosty to her, I imagine her bein' so thick with Tobias prejudiced him, I presume likely.
I suppose you know I'm your mother come all the way from Massachusetts to live with you. What is the matter? Do you take anything for your sickness?" A groan was Mrs. Livingstone's only answer. "Little hystericky, I guess," suggested Mrs. Nichols, adding that "settin' her feet in middlin' hot water is good for that." "She is nervous, and the sight of strangers makes her worse.
"Juist you keep your moo steekit, Pottie," says Dauvid, "or I'll mibby be middlin' wi' you. You're a miserable pack o' vagues, a' the lot o' ye, to gae wa' an' tak' advantage o' an' auld man! Yah! Damish your skins, I cud thrash the whole pack o' ye." He up wi' his niv an' took a hawp forrit.
'S'pose we musn't talk t' no strangers there 'n New York, said Uncle Eb, as he lay down. 'I've read 'n the Tribune how they'll purtend t' be friends an' then grab yer money an' run like Sam Hill. If I meet any o' them fellers they're goin' t' find me purty middlin' poor comp'ny. We were up and on deck at daylight, viewing the Palisades.
"Nell said if it was a matter o' charity I mustn't take a cent," he observed, in a low voice. "It isn't charity. It's business. And now that we know your story we mean to help you find your girl. Anyone would do that, you know. Tell me, what is Lucy like?" "She's like Nell used to be." "But we don't know your wife. Describe Lucy as well as you can. Is she tall?" "Middlin', miss."
Or at least I said some words to him, and gin him a middlin' clear idee of how I felt on the subject. Why, the colt wuz more mine than his in the first place, and I didn't want a cent of money for myself, but only wanted it for the good of the Methodist meetin' house, which he ort to be full as interested in as I wuz.
Well, we let the fire go down agin and cowered over the kitchen stove that day, and agin went shiverin' to bed. That night the weather moderated, and with a low fire in the furnace, and the heat from the kitchen stove, we kep' middlin' warm. We cleaned up the plaster, mopped the floor and wuz comparitively comfortable for three days.
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