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I asked, influenced by his staring eyes. McHenry grinned foully. "Aye, man, you want too much," he replied. "I say his face was white, and he was on his back in the marsh. If he was alive, the leaves didn't finish him, and if he was croaked, it didn't matter. I was obligin' a friend. You'd have done as much." He took up his glass and muttered dramatically, "A few leaves for a friend."
Sowl, he'd show a blue nose, any way, only for the wife 'Twas she made a man of him." "Faith, an' I for one, won't hear Pether Connell run down," his companion would reply; "he's a good-hearted, honest man, an' obligin' enough; an' for that matter so is the wife, a hard honest woman, that made what they have, an' brought herself an' her husband from nothin' to somethin'."
"Annabel means well, she's real obligin'; but she ain't a good hand at business." Shadrach snorted. "Obligin' nothin'!" he retorted. "We're the ones that was obligin' when we agreed to pay her seventy-five cents for settin' astern of the counter and readin' the Advocate. I told you when you hired her that she wasn't good for nothin' but ballast." "I know, Shadrach.
"Yes, we's an obligin' lot, we poor folks," observed a little man in the rough garb of a cattle-driver, drawing his pipe from his mouth as he spoke.
Coonie stared in injured righteousness. "Well I never! That's all the thanks I get for obligin' you. I can't help it if he's gone spooney on you; next time I bring you a message " "Yes, next time you bring me a message it'll be the last you'll take to a livin' soul. Drive your old hearse away from my door, will you, an' tell your lies to somebody that's big enough fool to believe you!"
You'll herd for Tim a year at forty dollars, and teach Joan a thousand dollars' worth while you're doin' it. You're a mighty obligin' feller, it looks like to me." Mackenzie sat thinking it over.
Now, if you want me to blow in an' tell the major who you are, just say so. I'm obligin'. It's Crimmins' way. But if you want to help an old friend who's down an' out, just say so. I'm waitin'." Garrison eyed him. Crimmins? Crimmins? The name was part of his dream. What had he been to this man? What did this man know? "Take a walk down the pike," suggested the other easily.
I always make a practice of treatin' the girls as near equal as within reason, for Carry's every bit as fine-lookin' an' good a girl as me own, an' if I wasn't here, wouldn't Dawn have to be foragin' for herself too? but there's reason in everythink, and Carry might be a bit obligin'."
"Well, lad," he answered, pulling at his nose, "the good Lard made me what I is. I'm not complainin' o' the taste He showed. No, no! I would not think o' doin' that. But " "He made you kind," I broke in, hotly, "an' such as good folk love." "I'm not knowin' much about that, Davy. The good Lard made me as He willed. But I'm an obligin' man.
"Timmie," said he, grinning, "dad's been wonderin'!" "Is he?" Timmie asked, assuming innocence. "Wonderin'?" "Wasn't you sayin' so, dad?" "Well," the skipper admitted, "havin' said so, I'll not gainsay it. I was wonderin' " "An' you knowin'," sighed Timmie, "that you're an obligin' man!" "Dad," Jacky demanded, "didn't the Lard kindly send a switch o' wind from the sou'east t' save you oncet?"
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