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What chance'd there be of namin' to lead the party in the city the man who had knifed the party in the State?" West's chin rested upon his hand; his gaze fell dreamily upon the table-top. Before his mind's eye there had unrolled a favorite vision a white meadow of faces focussed breathlessly upon a great orator. He recalled himself with a start, a stretch, and a laugh.
"We was quartered in a big cantonmint 'tis no manner av use namin' names, for ut might give the barricks disrepitation an' I was the Imperor av the Earth to my own mind, an' wan or tu women thought the same. Small blame to thim. Afther we had lain there a year, Bragin, the Color Sargint av E Comp'ny, wint an' took a wife that was lady's maid to some big lady in the Station.
Drew shook his head. "No, her sire’s Storm Cloud. But all that line are grays." "This Storm Cloud, he’s a runnin’ hoss?" "About the runnin’est horse in his part of the country, Callie. This filly ought to pick up her heels some, if she takes after her dam and sire." "What you namin’ her?" Up to that moment Drew had not really thought about it.
Some informer must hev set them men ter spyin' round fer moonshine." "Oh, surely nobody wouldn't dare," urged one of the group, uneasily; for the identity of an informer was masked in secrecy, and his fate, when discovered, was often gruesome. "They couldn't hev noticed the clash of them jimmyjohns, nohow," declared the negligent Watt, nonchalantly. "But namin' me fur the dead one!
"I shouldn't think Jimmy M'Gee kens that, or he'd ha' communicated it to me. I shall certainly utilize it, and am obleeged to you for namin' it." "Don't mention it," said Tom. "I'll let you have as many long words as you like, if you are a collector of them. But what is the matter with the captain?" "It's aye the drink," the mate said gravely.
Price has been chopping wood, pausing occasionally to stare off through the purple haze at the south shoulder of Coniston Mountain. "How be you, Jethro?" says Mr. Price, nasally. "D-Democrats are talkin' some of namin' you Moderator next meetin'," says the man in the coonskin cap. "Want to know!" ejaculates Mr. Price, dropping the axe and straightening up in amazement. For Mr.
"Yes," sez Marthy; "we made it up atween us long ago that you should have the namin' uv our baby like we had the namin' uv yourn." Then, kind uv hectorin' like for I was always a powerful tease I sez: "How would Cleopatry do for a name? or Venis? I have been readin' the cyclopeedy myself, I 'd have you know!"
I reckon Billy's been 'lowin' that so long as he couldn't be my fust, owin' to delays an' happenin's, he'd make out to be my las'. I been kinder expectin' that Billy'd come along for fifty-odd years an' every time I'd git a chance to git ma'id I'd kinder put it off, thinkin' he mought turn up, an' every time I'd bury a husband I'd say to myself, 'Now maybe this time Billy'll be comin' along. I been namin' my chilluns arfter him off an' on.
"An' so you alias have, Polly, since you was a grawed gal; an' God knaws it. But do'e think as you could in a manner o' speakin' hide names from passon? Ban't no call to tell what's fallen out to other folks. Joan eh, Polly? Might 'e speak in a parable like same as Scripture wi'out namin' no names. For Joan's sake, Mary eh?" She was silent a full minute, then answered slowly.
"Thar' was Philemon, he comes first, that makes one, don't it? and there was Doddridge "Sure he comes next, pa?" interposed Grandma; "for now you're namin' of em, you might as well git 'em right." "Yis, yis, ma," replied the old man, hastily. "Then there was Winfield and John, they're all dead now, and Bartholomew, he was first mate in a sailin' vessel; fine man, Bartholomew was, fine man; he "
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