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Wadleigh turned squarely upon the delinquent Cyrus, who stood, half-shaven, absently honing his razor. "Cyrus," said she, with an alarming decision, "will you open your head, an' tell me what you nailed up that door for? an' where you got your nails? I s'pose you don't carry 'em round with you, ready for any door't happens to need nailin' up?" This fine sarcasm was not lost on Cyrus.
The little man, with scared face, sought at once to pacify the frightened child, while Sunny withered the interfering widower with a few well-chosen words. "Say, you'd butt in an' tell folk they wasn't nailin' up your coffin right," he cried angrily. "Will you kep that instrument o' foolishness o' yours quiet fer ten minutes?" Sandy flushed. "They ain't got hides like hogs," he grumbled.
But when things gets beyond a certain bigness you can't shut 'em in not unless you first chops 'em up, and that spoils 'em. "Now, there's Shoemaker Hankin a man as could talk the hind-leg off a 'oss. He goes at it like a hammer, and thinks as he's openin' things out; but all the time he's shuttin' on 'em in and nailin' on 'em up in their coffins.
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