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Updated: June 29, 2025
Harlan, grandson of Thelismer Thornton, tried to put the thing out of his mind. "Politics," said a man in the corridor in his hearing, "has got the pelt off'm second-story work, as they're running the political game in this State right now. But it's only petty larceny. And that's why the whole thing makes me sick." "Me too," said his listener.
You'd have to nail him here in the village, and besides its bein' murder right in the face and eyes of folks, you'd put a bullet into that sack o' dynamite and blow ev'ry store, meetin'-house, and school-house in Smyrna off'm the map. You give that up, or I'll pass the word and have you arrested, yourself, as a dangerous critter." He went away, still protesting as long as he was in hearing.
"Git out o' this yard!" bawled the Cap'n, in his storm-and-tempest tones. "You crack-brained, rag-and-bone-land-pirate, git off'm my premises! I don't want your stuff. I've bought the last cent's wu'th of you I'll ever buy. Git out!" "The Cap'n isn't well to-day, Todd," quavered Mrs. Sproul. Fear prompted her to keep still.
I know you're a jill-poke." "A what?" blandly asked Sproul. "That's woods talk for the log that makes the most trouble on the drive and it's a mighty ornery word." "Er something like 'the stabboard pi-oogle, which same is a seafarin' term, and is worse," replied the Cap'n, with bland interest in this philological comparison. "But let's not git strayed off'm the subject.
When I use willer for a wand it will twist in my hands till the bark peels off. You see, I'm full of it whatever it is. I showed you that much with the whisker. I started in easy with you. It makes me dizzy sometimes to foller myself. I have to be careful and let out a link at a time, or I'd take folks right off'm their feet.
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