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"Bossin' the whole job for me," hurried on Spindler, with nervous desperation. "Gettin' together all the things and makin' ready for 'em, orderin' in everythin' that's wanted, and fixin' up the rooms, I kin step out while you're doin' it, and then helpin' me receivin' 'em, and sittin' at the head o' the table, you know, like ez ef you was the mistress." "But," said Mrs.
But you was goin' to see Brown and find out from him. Answer me. Answer me now, didn't " She stepped toward the door. He extended an arm and held her back. "You answer me," he commanded. She tried to pass him, but his arm was like an iron bar. She hesitated a moment and then laughed nervously. "You certainly have took to orderin' folks round since the old days," she said.
A big clumsy boy, whose body was getting ahead of his mind in the race for maturity, came thumping down the steps with the calves' empty pails. He pulled a loose strand of his sister's hair as he seized the handle of the separator. "Now, Mrs. Johnnie Dunn," he warned, "don't go orderin' your betters round." Their work was brightened with a great deal of merry nonsense.
'Go home yourself! says I, an' I give his oul' gun a push with my hand, 'an' who are you to be orderin' a person about? 'If you don't go on when I tell you, says he, 'I'll shoot you! an' I declare to my God he looked as if he'd blow the head off you. 'Well, wait till I get my change anyway, says I. 'Ye'll get no change here, says he.
Thar's Chestnut himself, he's took with Dominie 'stead of orderin' him out, he talks with him an' her just ez ef he'd as lieve get rid of her as not." "Boat's a-comin'!" shouted Cairo Jake, looking toward the place, half a mile below, where the creek emptied into the river. "See her smoke? Like 'nuff Tom Chafflin's on board.
The ol' man kept dependin' more an' more on Dick, until finally Dick got to signin' checks, orderin' all the supplies, an' takin' full charge; while Jabez spent most of his time taggin' around after Barbie. They was like a couple o' young children; but Barbie wasn't quite so high-headed with Dick after the dog affair, an' they got to ridin' together quite a bit themselves.
They were orderin' everybody out, except a couple or three soldiers that they made prisoners. An' if you were to go down there now, you'd see them, young fellas that I could bate with my one hand, cocked up behin' the windas with guns in their hands, an' telling people to move on out of that...." Some one came into the group, and said "What's that?" and she turned to him and began again.
And so, I hoped from his slangy beginning, that he had found some fresh data. "I chased up that chore boy first," he related, "an' he didn't know anything at all. Said Miss Van Allen's a lovely lady, but he 'most never saw her, the Julie dame did all the orderin' an' payin' s'far's he was concerned. Good pay, but irregular work. She'd be here a day or two, an' then like's not go 'way for a week.
The lan'lord said my speech was full of orig'nality, but his idee was the old stage coach was more safer, and he tho't peple would indors that opinyin in doo time. I'm gettin' on exceedin' well in London. I see now, however, that I made a mistake in orderin' my close afore I left home. The trooth is the taler in our little villige owed me for a pig and I didn't see any other way of gettin' my pay.
First started by promisin' him speritual benefits, but he soon see that wasn't no go, and he tried worldly persuasion; but no, sir, stid o' him comin' down, Sonny started orderin' the rest of us christened thess the way he done about the vaccination. But, of co'se, we had been baptized befo', an' we nachelly helt out agin' that for some time.
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