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Chester Holmes had three fingers up and Ira Snarkle was waving both hands, but I went calmly on: "They were telling me how beautifully you recited, and I was trying to instil into the piece a little of your spirit. But now that we have you here, I insist on your showing me and the school just how it is done." Perry frowned fiercely on Lulu Ann Nummler, and the three fingers disappeared.
You was allus a-blubberin' and a-swallerin' somethin'. You mind the time you swallered my copper cent, don't you? You mind the fuss your ma made to my ma about it, don't you? Why, she formulated regular charges that I 'tempted to pizon you she did, and " "Don't rake up them old, old sores," said Josiah Nummler soothingly, "Ike'll give you back your copper cent, Henery."
"Doogulus Doogulus," he said. "Of course, boys, it's Doogulus." The word seemed to taste good, he rolled it over and over so in his mouth. "Teacher Hope says you ain't such a fine speaker after all," cried Lulu Ann Nummler from the distant end of the bench.
"Even in a fairy story it 'ud be ridiculous to let a boy of fifteen beat a trained teacher," said Josiah Nummler. "He didn't quite, and it come this way. Leander asked Pinky Binn if he had eleven apples and multiplied them by five how many was they left. She says sixty-five. So she works her fingers and her lips a-while, like she was deef and dumb.
At the mention of the doughty Scot I pounded the floor with my crutch and repeated "Dug dug dug." "But Teacher Thomas allus said Doog," exclaimed Chester Holmes. "I don't care what Teacher Thomas said," I retorted. "You must say Dug Dug Douglas." "But Teacher Thomas is the best speaker they is," piped in Lulu Ann Nummler from the end of the bench.
Before me stood not Mary, but Josiah Nummler. It was kind of Josiah to come, for he is an old man and lives a full mile above the village, half way up the ridge-side.
Josiah Nummler had rowed down from his hill-top, and the bulge in Tim's pocket was caused by the half dozen fine pippins which the old man had brought as his farewell gift. Even Theophilus Jones left the store unguarded, and hurried over when the moment arrived that the village was to see the last of its favorite son. Mrs.
I never hesitate to use strategy to get my chair, even at the expense of a feeble old man." "How gallant you are," she said with a touch of scorn. "You must not scold," I cried. "Remember I had reason, after all. You did not come to see Josiah Nummler." She was taken by surprise. It was brutal of me. But somehow the old reckless spirit had come back.
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