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I didn't want no pay from him, cause he give us his money when yours and Miss King's was gone, but he says as how it might bring him luck in gittin' her, so I took a quarter of a dollar. "'July 29. Mister Vergil Washington. Reckter Colered Church. 1 doller. Pade. Some one stole his'n off en the clo'es-line, and he only hed one. "'July 31. Widder Hubbleston, 56 Wilkins St. 1 Doller.
I think since you did a fare settle about the gunn and pade up my little bill like a mann you would deserve the show at the "Kindumm" and the blow out at that swell tuck shop as Mister Acting said he was going to treat you to for coming with him to london. I hopes you enjoyed em and As how that stiff necked old corker your beak won't never find out.
"Yes," I anserd, "you hav found me at larst, and you would hav found me at fust, if you had cum sooner." She grabd me vilently by the coat collar, and brandishin her umbreller wildly round, exclaimed: "Air you a man?" Sez I, "I think I air, but if you doubt it, you can address Mrs. A. Ward, Baldinsville, Injianny, postage pade, & she will probly giv you the desired informashun."
They give her dyspepsy, anyhow." The muscles of John Meredith's face grew rigid in his endeavor to maintain a serious expression. He had taken out a notebook at the beginning of the interview to jot down the addresses, but he copied Amarilly's comments as well, for the future entertainment of Colette. "'July 25 and 26. Mr. Derry Phillips, The Navarre. 2 dollers. Pade. He paints picters.
"'July 15 to July 19. The Beehive. 3 dollers and 1/2 Pade. That's a bargain store down in our parts. I went in fer to git Bud a cap and I hearn the clerk askin' the boss about fixin' up a winder show with wax figgers fer a weddin'. I step up to him and ask him if he kep surpluses, and he sez as he didn't.
We took it out in gum spruce and pepsin. Iry swallered his'n every time, and Miss Hudgers was afeard he'd be stuck together inside. "'Aug. 9-23. Vawdevil Theayter. 5 dollers. Pade. They put it on fer a sketch. "'Aug. 25. Mister Cotter. 25 cents. Pade. He's a brakeman friend of the Boarder. He wore it to a maskyrade. "'Aug. 27. Poleece. 35 cents. Pade." "Police!" ejaculated John faintly.
"Some one swiped it offen our clo'es-line, and when the police ketched the thief, we was subpenyed, or ma was. She got thirty-five cents, and all on us 'cept Iry went to hear her." "'Aug, 29. Bishop Thurber. 5 dollers. Pade." "Bishop Thurber!" the name was repeated with the force of an expletive. "Seems to mind that more'n he did the police," thought Amarilly.
She began to read laboriously and slowly from the book, adding explanatory notes in glib tones. "'July 8. Mister Carrul, tenner, 1 doller. Pade. He's the tenor, you know, to Grace Church. He wanted it to sing in at a sacred concert. His was too short or too long. "'July 11. Miss Lyte and Miss Bobson. 'Tablos. 1 doller. Pade. Mr. Carul knows where they live. 'Twaz him as got the job fer me.
The rector's eyes twinkled. "And," pursued Amarilly, after another moment of hesitancy, "he's larnt me how to fix my hair. He says red hair is beautiful! He took me to a restyrant." John looked troubled at this statement, and felt that his call at the studio would now be for a double purpose. "'July 27," resumed Amarilly. "'The Boarder. 25 cents. Pade."
Pade. She got merried by an Episcopal minister, and he furgot his surplus, and that was all she hed hired him fer, so she rented our'n fer him, and Mr. Jimmels, her new husband, took it outen the minister's pay. Somethin' allers goes wrong to her weddin's." "Does she have them often?" interrupted John gravely. "Quite frequent." "'Aug. 3, Mister Vedder, Ticket Seller to the Theayter. 1 doller.
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