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O'Finnigan's grandchildren who will look down from their yellow wheels at the peanut and apple stands, and wonder how persons can be so vulgar as to buy candy in the streets. It is a whim of Mrs. Grundy's, who is all whimsey. She will not let us buy a piece of simple candy at the corner, but she will allow us to drag a silk dress over the garbage of the pavement. 'Tis a whimsical sovereign.
"They seem to be riding away to a world of dreams," said the little lady in black. Mr. Bat Brydges and Senator Moyese walked slowly and reflectively past the Range Cabin towards the charred burn and timber slash of O'Finnigan's abandoned homestead. "It's that damned rant the old fellow let off in the court room," said Brydges. "Rant doesn't win elections, Brydges! It has to be fought out!
Some young gentlemen, escorting certain young ladies from school, cracked excellent jokes upon the honest buyer of peanut candy; and if his daughter or any friend had chanced to pass and had seen him, she would probably have been seriously troubled and half ashamed. Now peanut candy is very good, and at Mrs. M'Patrick O'Finnigan's stand it is very cheap.
Yet, how many of the brave generals in the war, who charged in the very face of flaming batteries, would dare to stop at Mrs. O'Finnigan's and buy ten cents' worth of peanut candy if they saw Mrs. Sweller's carriage approaching, or Miss Dasher just coming upon the walk?
"It isn't my job any more," he said, "but I can't stand seeing that." He was off at a gallop. They saw the sparks strike from the stones as he turned up the Ridge Trail. A week had passed. The fire had been put out with little damage except from O'Finnigan's timber slash to the lake beneath the upper snows. A new Ranger was in charge.
The second interruption came when he began to quote Mistress Lizzie O'Finnigan's words those afternoons on the Ridge. The attorney sprang up: "As the child is an incorrigible liar and her father an incorrigible drunkard, Mr.
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