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"Well, sir, I'm deuced glad I didn't let on to Melindy, for like all wimen she'd be a peekin' to see what it was. It's terrible queer that not one of 'em is better than another. Still we can't get along without 'em, nohow." Here Mr. Spriggins emphasized the remark by a shrug of his herculean shoulders, and allowed himself to think what a blank this world would be without Melindy.
"I ain't a bettin' man," said the deacon, "but I'd risk our white-faced cow that them thirty thousand dollars preached the greatest sermon ever heerd in Californy ur in Crankett either." Miss Peekin threw a withering glance at the deacon; it was good he was not on trial for heresy, with Miss Peekin for judge and jury.
I couldn't help peekin' to see. "An' then, when the children was all a-rustlin' up, Mis' Toplady she jus' hands her two pails o' milk over to Timothy. "'You take 'em in, she says to him, her eyes swimmin'. 'I've come off without my handkerchief. "Timothy looks round him, kind o' helpless, but Eppleby stood there an' pats him on the arm. "'Go in go in, brother, Eppleby says gentle.
Then I'll be making tea here by the fireplace to wash down some jerked meat and a hunk o' bread. At six or a little after I'll be ready to go with you again. Jack Kelso is going to look after the store to-morrow." He began to laugh. "Ye know when I went out of the tavern that little vixen stood peekin' into the window Bim, Jack's girl," said Abe.
I do hear also that those same girls when they git in to dinner takes off their waists altogether and sets down to eat all stripped off to a scrap of an underbody. That's true, for pa saw it when he was takin' cream over to Ponsonby's; the windows was open on the piazza, and he couldn't refrain from peekin', though I hope you'll not repeat.
Disgraceful!" "It's what I'd call a powerful conversion," remarked the deacon. "But ther's more," said Miss Peekin, with a sigh, and yet with an air of importance befitting the bearer of wonderful tidings. "What?" eagerly asked Mrs. Crankett. "Jim's back," said Miss Peekin. "Mercy on us!" cried Mrs. Crankett. "The Lord bless and prosper him!" earnestly exclaimed the deacon.
"Good bless the Lord!" said the deacon, with delight. "Ye hain't heerd all of it, though," continued Miss Peekin, with a funereal countenance. "They're going to be married." "Sakes alive " gasps Mrs. Crankett. "It's so," said Miss Peekin; "an' they say she sent for him, by way of the Isthmus, an' he come back that way.
Then a grand big mansion lookin' down onto us kinder superciliously. Then a small, pretty farm house with snug outbuildings, a man lookin' at us from the open barn door, and some children playin' round the doorstep. Then a big island with grassy shores or wooded depths; then a tiny island, not too big for a child's playhouse, and some that wuz only a bit of rock peekin' out of the water.
The deacon gave his old wife an enthusiastic hug; upon seeing which Miss Peekin hastily departed, with a severely shocked expression of countenance and a nose aspiring heavenward. Black Hat was, in 1851, about as peaceful and well-regulated a village as could be found in the United States.
"He war peekin' at yuh-all, an' when he seed Ah sawed him he snooked an' Ah didn't sawed him no moah." "Is that all?" questioned Grace. "Yassuh. Yes'm." "Quite likely it was the man who owns the cornfield. He probably was looking the crop over to see if it were fit to cut.
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