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As I'd kind of guessed by the way he talked, he wa'n't just an ordinary fact'ry hand. He'd been through some high class scientific school up in Massachusetts, where he'd lived before his father lost his grip. Seems the old man was a crackerjack boss machinist; but he got to monkeyin' with fool inventions, drifted from place to place, got to be a lunger, and finally passed in.
They waz makin' fer the house when I steps in an' grabs my ol' shot gun. I hollered at 'em not to come a step nigher 'n' I guess they seed it wa'n't safe monkeyin' with me; so they skidaddled." "Which way did they go?" asked Burton. "Off down the road yonder; but I don't know which way they turned at the crossin's, er ef they kept straight on toward Millsville."
He was in the Arm'ry with me, the other day, a-pretendin' to help me clean up, and he fell off one of the cannon he was monkeyin' round. He didn't seem so bad hurt, at first, but somehow, after I come to think it over, he hasn't seemed to want to move round since, so I lay it to that." "Have you had a doctor to see him?" asked Miss Ruth, waving the groups of arriving children on to 'Tildy's care.
"I thort she was lyin' about the home, an' I stepped down there at noon an' I hope I may die to-night if she ain't got 'em all fixed up as snug as can be, an' the Major is there as sober es a jedge, an' lookin' like a gentleman an' actin' like a Conway. Say, but you watch yo' han'. That's blood that won't stan' monkeyin' with when it's in its right mind.
I ain't goin' to have nobody monkeyin' 'round while I'm Corporal of this 'ere guard. Come along with me, and step out lively, too!" Si marched the culprit back to headquarters and delivered him up to the officer, who commended Si for his fidelity.
"Steve, you know he wasn't too steady. His hands were shaking oh, you've seen 'em, too. But there he sits and looks back across the table at me, monkeyin' with a stack of chips, and giving me smile for smile. "'I wouldn't sell that drink, he murmured, 'I wouldn't sell it for . . . well' and he licked his lips that were dry as leather. "That was enough!
Don't you know better 'n to jump up trouble thataway?" "We're all right now," the younger man said. "They can't catch us." The Crees were on foot and would be out of range by the time they reached the hilltop. "Hmp! They'll come to our camp an' raise Cain. Why not? What business we got monkeyin' with their scalping sociables? It ain't neighborly." "West won't like it," admitted Morse.
The sharpness of Shellington's voice told Middy that this news was of moment. "Well, ye see, 'tain't none of my business, 'cause the gal belongs to Lon; but, if she was mine, I wouldn't give her to no Lem Crabbe. Lem said she jumped in the lake after a pup; but I 'low he was monkeyin' with her. Her pappy hopped in the water after her like a frog and pulled her out quicker'n scat."
One of the other hired men came to my rescue and gave me a thorough rubbing with liniment, after which I was able to crawl down to breakfast. The old skinflint of a farmer then had the audacity to discharge me, saying that he "didn't want no dood from the city monkeyin' around in the way, nohow."
You see he'd been in, monkeyin' round the smallpox already so they had to. And he wrapped the kid up in a blanket and took it to his room. They say his light's never been out at night since." "He has not taken the disease himself, has he?" I enquired. "Oh, no; leastwise, I never heard tell of it. But them was queer actions for a young fellow, wasn't they?
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