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Blackett, who, after receiving the affectionate greetings of nearly the whole company, came to join us, to see, as she insisted, that we were out of mischief. "Yes, Mari' was one o' them pretty little lambs that make dreadful homely old sheep," replied Mrs. Todd with energy. "Cap'n Littlepage never'd look so disconsolate if she was any sort of a proper person to direct things.
"Yes, Rookie darling," she said, in a tone of drowsy happiness. "I meant to stay truly I did and cut in when Mrs. Powell tried to get you to give yourself away so she could tell her alienists how crazy you are. But if I had, Dick would have stayed, too. He never'd have gone, never in the world. And he's so quarrelsome." "How do you know he's gone?" Raven asked. "Why, of course he has.
I've been a-looking and a-peeking everywhere, but my eyes are old, and I don't dare to tell any one to help me, for like enough they'd pick it up when I warn't seein', and slip Pa in their pocket, and I never'd see him again." Polly, feeling, if Pa were slipped in a pocket and carried off, it would be a calamity indeed, said heartily, "I'll get my jacket and cap and come right out."
If she was thirty year old, or five-an'-thirty or more, and never'd had a chance to be married, and if one o' them artful creturs you was talkin' of got hold of her, then, to be sure, why, dear me! law!
"If he dared to reg'larly steal you he'd dare to do anything else; but I'll get away before he comes up, an' I'll go an' tell the captain of the boat. Then t rather think the man will wish he'd never'd said anything about a pony, for he'll be arrested." " No, no, don't! " cried Ned, "he'd be sure to kill me if you should do that, an' then what good would it do me?
Blue! that was her Madonna color. No wonder Tenney remembered it, if it was blue. "It ain't hangin' up," said Tenney, with a particularity that seemed to cause him an intense pain of concentration. "She never'd hang it up with t'others. It's folded. Mebbe in her work-basket, mebbe my God in heaven! she wouldn't ha' kep' it. She's burnt it up. You take off the cover o' the kitchen stove.
He ain't going to punch cows no more I bet he's thinking about turning out." "Well, when I do, you'll be the first fellow I lay for," retorted Happy, with labored wit. "You never'd get a rep shooting at a target the size uh Slim," dimpled Pink. "Is that toy cannon loaded, Happy?" "I betche yuh dassen't walk off ten paces and let me show yuh," growled Happy.
Some of the people at table were moved to loud laughter, it was at supper-time on a Sunday night, but others listened with great interest. "She never'd put on her good clothes to drownd herself," said the widow. "She might have thought 'twas good as takin' 'em with her, though. Old folks has wandered off an' got lost in the woods afore now." Mrs.
Bat I told them 't would do all the niggers good just to hear your story about the meanness of abolitionists. You know, Tom, that was just what I told you, that they pretended to be your friends, but they were your worst enemies." "Yes, massa, I al'us bleved you; and if Liz hadn't cut up the way she did I never'd tried 'em." All things went on smoothly with Tom.
"If I hadn't 'a' been robbed I wouldn't 'a' come here I never'd met Merry. Thunder and jimson root! Wasn't that a narrow escape?" And then he laughed so heartily that the girl looked out of the window again to see what in the world he was doing. He had his hat in his hand and was whacking his thigh with it. "Lyman Gilman, what in the world ails you to-day?
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