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Updated: June 14, 2025
And now I was just markin' time, waitin' for what might turn up, and feelin' equal to pullin' off any sort of a deal, from matchin' Piddie for the lunches to orderin' a new stock issue. What if the asphalt over on Fifth-ave. was softenin' up, with the mercury hittin' the nineties, and half the force off on vacations? I had a real job to attend to. I was doin' things!
She might 'ave ordered me about; that wouldn't a been nothin'; but to see 'er a orderin' 'IM, and a ridin' on 'im like a wooden rockin'-'orse, and with no more feelin'! A nasty, prancin', 'igh-'eaded creatur'. Thinks I to myself, often and often, if things was different I'd let yer know, that I would; but I 'eld my tong. It 'ud a been wuss for us all, p'r'aps, if I 'adn't."
I was perfectly confounded at it; but couldna, of course, ask ony explanation, as there was naething sae palpably oot o' joint as to admit o't. Havin made my roun' o' ca's wi' the success and comfort I hae mentioned, I returned to my quarters, and, orderin a tumbler o' toddy, sat down amongst a heap o' newspapers, to amuse mysel' the best way I could till bedtime.
He turned blindly to find the doorway of the stairs and cried, "Father! father!" "Son!" He started for the sound, groped against the wall, sank to his knees, and fell backward. "Room, here, room!" "Give him air!" "By George, sir, he rushed right in bare-handed between 'em, orderin' Haggard" "Stand back, you-all, and make way for Judge March!" "Oh, son, son!"
If you had to sing every word you said 'twould be sort of distressin', 'specially if you was in a hurry. A fust-rate solo when you was orderin' the crew to shorten sail would be a high old brimstone anthem, I'll bet you. And think of the dinner table at our boardin' house! Mrs. Van and C. Dickens both goin' at once, and Marm Hepton serenadin' the waiter girl! Ho! ho!
"You should not hate any one, my child," she said, while Muggins rejoined: "I can't help it none of us can; she's so mean and so so you mustn't never tell, 'case Aunt Chloe get my rags if you do but she's so low-flung, Claib say. She hain't any bizzens orderin' us around nuther, and I will hate her!" "But, Muggins, the Bible teaches us to love those who treat us badly, who are mean, as you say."
To his directions and suggestions, she curtly informed him that she knew her business and "didn't want no mon around, orderin' and interferin'." In fact, she did appear, as she had said, capable of any amount of work, and usually was in a mood to perform it; but soon her male relatives began to drop in to smoke a pipe with her in the evening.
Jed rubbed his chin. "Step out of 'em, I guess likely," he drawled. "Humph! Yes well, any self-respectin' person would do that, even if he had to go barefooted the rest of his life. But, what I'm gettin' at is this: Babbitt'll come to me orderin' me to get Leander exempted. And what'll I say?" Winslow turned and looked at him.
An' if a rustler is hung, he don't get any more than is comin' to him. Do you reckon there's a lot of difference between a half dozen men hangin' a man for a crime he's done, than for one man, a judge for instance, orderin' him to be hung?
"I made up my mind when I read in that El Paso paper that there was going to be a Yaqui rising and that the gov'ment was orderin' troops into Sonora, that the gov'ment most probably had somethin' up its sleeve." "Most likely," acceded Scott. "Well, I don't expect to understand Mexican politics," said Polly, "but why, if Mr.
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