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"Mebbe old Jube wouldn't want me round 'bout," he suggested. "Waal," said Birt, eager again to detail his plans, "he 'lowed when I axed him this mornin' ez he'd be willin' ef I could trade with another boy ter take my place wunst in a while." Nate affected to meditate on this view of the question.
And Nate Tierney, he says 't water an' heat an' lightin' is goin' to be jest as free, in our town, as sunshine an' air is everywhere. That's what Nate says, and if it's true it's a mighty big load off 'n us poor folks, and that's certain!"
"Why, of course, Garry," remarked Dick, "you remember the Chief of Customs telling us he would arrange to have Nate meet us here? However, perhaps we had better defer getting any advice from Nate until Phil has told his story." That moment the telephone rang, and on answering it, Garry found that the person on the other end of the wire was Sam Preston.
All the money we ever get we shall use to help the poor. WE don't want any of it. We shall live AMONG the poor, live just as frugally as they do. Our money we shall give every cent of it to charity and "'Lord sakes! yells Nate, 'DON'T talk that way! Don't! Be you crazy, too? Why
"Did Nate gin ye a word fur me?" he called sonorously, above the clamor of the noisy bark-mill. "He say he'll be hyar ter-morrer by sun-up!" piped out Rufe, in a blatant treble. A lie seemed less reprehensible when he was obliged to labor so conscientiously to make it heard. And then compunction seized him.
Pollard had told her that very morning that his son Nate was learning more arithmetic at her little school than he had ever learned in the city schools. "Oh, I'm so glad," mused the little teacher. Mrs. Dunlee thought Kyzie did not get time enough for play. And just now the little girl was unusually busy.
From the headin' way that he kerries on hyar, a-body would s'pose he air older 'n the Cumberland Mountings! But he hev turned twenty- one that's a fac' an' he voted at the las' election." "I knows that air true," said Birt, who had wistfully admired this feat of his senior. "Waal Nate don't set much store by votin'," rejoined Mrs. Griggs.
"By the powers, it was as nate a thing as ever I saw done," observed O'Brien: "the slightest mistake as to time or management, and at this moment the flatfish would have been dubbing at our ugly carcases. Peter, you're not fond of flatfish, are you, my boy? We may thank Heaven and the captain, I can tell you that, my lads; but now, where's the chart, Robinson?
The colors were red, white, and green, and the device was an eagle on a prickly pear with a snake in his mouth. "I wonder if there's anybody at home," said Nate, and would have lifted the knocker if Jimmy had not said, "Wait for Uncle James." Jimmy thought as Uncle James was the leader of the expedition he should be the one to do the knocking, or at any rate to tell them when to knock.
"Well, yer honor," began his confiding old servant shyly, "I larned to do many's the nate job in me day, but if gettin' th' inside o' these in, 'ithout tearin' th' outsides don't bang all iver I larnt, my name's not Johanna Potts," and as she spoke she looked curiously at the bundle of letters before her.
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