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"'A hem! says the judge, 'I am not prepared to say you have the right to those stalls, but I wouldn't advise breaking a lock. As you say, it's a criminal act. "Just then here comes Orphy rollin' through the gates. "'You hustle in an' git Alf Dingle! says the old Jasper to him. 'An' when you git back, you stay here where you're needed!
Ed never tells me nothin' about it. You better set on it, he says. 'The seats ain't just in first-class shape this mornin'. I looks inside at the seats, 'n' he's got it doped right some chickens has spent the night on 'em. "After we gets to goin' Orphy pokes his head in the door. "'The company don't allow me to handle the money, he says.
They took from the large wire safe in the cellar a pie, half a loaf of bread, and a great piece of cheese, and putting them into a basket, they went to the barn-yard, intending to tell their mother as soon as the tinman was gone, and not for one moment doubting her approval since in the house of an American farmer, victuals, as Orphy justly observed, are no object.
"'Furget it! he says. 'Put her on the street-car. The car runs right into Minnehaha Park 'n' you can unload her in front of the stalls. "'You can't take a trunk on a street-car, I says. "'Wait till you see this street-car, says Butsy. "'Ain't they but one? says Peewee. "'That's all, says Butsy. 'Orphy Shanner runs it.
Amy and Orphy were desirous of retaining little Dinah in the family, and as the child's parents seemed very willing, the girls urged their mother to keep her instead of Chloe, who, they said, could very easily be made over to Israel.
But he only sniggered at me, and said he wouldn't, and bid me hush; and then he got mad, and because I couldn't hush up just in a minute, he whipped me quite smart. Orphy. Poor little thing! Dinah. And then I got frightened, for he put on a wicked look, and said he'd kill me dead if I cried any more, or made the least noise.
I wish he had not been too bashful to ask for victuals to take with him. Amy. And still he did not strike me at all as a bashful man. Orphy. Suppose we were just in a private way to put some victuals into his cart for him, without letting him know anything about it! Let's hide it among the tins, and how glad he'll be when he finds it to-morrow! Amy. So we will; that's an excellent notion!
"And there's the cullender," said Orphy, "it has such a big crack at the bottom, that when I am smashing the squashes for dinner, not only the water, but the squashes themselves drip through. Better give it to Israel, and get a new one for ourselves. What's this?" she continued, taking up a tin water-dipper. "That is for dipping warter out of the bucket," replied the tinman.
Orphy Smith, Mr. Moore's next neighbor, took his bag of corn one day, to carry it to mill. Mitty was very glad, because they had been out of meal some days, and she was rather tired of potatoes. So she made up her mind, and her mouth, that when Orphy came back, they would all have "a prime supper."
But Orphy didn't come back that night, or the next morning, either; but, late the next afternoon, he came crawling back, with the meal, and told them that "he should have been home with it long ago, if that pesky wheel hadn't come off his wagon, and it hadn't taken such a powerful long time to blacksmith it on again."
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