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"First Polena and old Hardee, then Gertie Higgins and Sam Bartlett! I declare, Sim, gettin' married unbeknownst to anybody must be catchin', like the measles. Nobody's safe unless they've got a wife or husband livin'. Me and Sol Berry are old baches we'd better get vaccinated or WE may come down with the disease. Ho! ho!" After dinner Mr. Phinney went from his home to the depot.
But this friend, this real friend, he don't count cost, nor trouble, nor inconvenience. Hikes his house the house he lives in right out into the road, moves it to a place where he don't want to go, and "'Mr. Phinney, she sighs out, 'what do you mean? "And then I told her. She listened without sayin' a word, but her eyes kept gettin' brighter and brighter and she breathed short.
"But you givin' up your job!" gasped Phinney. "YOU! Why, what for?" "For instance, I guess. I ain't dependent on the wages, and I'm sick of the whole thing." "But what'll you do?" "Don't know." "You you won't leave town, will you? Lawsy mercy, I hope not!" "Don't know. Maybe I'll know better by and by. I've got to think things out. Run along now, like a good feller.
Captain Dimick brought a bag of apples, greenings, some he had kept in the cellar over winter. "Nice to eat on the cars," he told us. Everyone asked us to send postcards. Miss Phinney was especially solicitous. "It'll be just lovely to know where you be and what you're doin," she declared.
Phinney, though he hated the whole operation, those having it in charge, and the mighty Williams especially, could not resist stealing down to see how his successful rivals were progressing with the work he had hoped to do. It caused him much chagrin to see that they were getting on so very well.
Not for the Deacon's reason he met no one on the main road, save a group of school children and Miss Phinney, and, sighting the latter in the offing, he dodged behind the trees by the schoolhouse pond and waited until she passed. But the captain, his trouble now heavy upon him, did feel the need of sympathy and congenial companionship.
We was tame and toler'ble contented by that time. Phinney called to her as she went by the door. "'Is that young one asleep? he asked. "'Yes, sir, says she, 'he is. Is there anything I can do? Did you want anything? "Simeon looks at me. 'I swan to man, it's catchin'! he says. 'They've all got it. No, we don't want anything, except What's the matter? YOU don't need fresh air, do you?
"What happened her?" asked the man laconically. "He says she ran into an iceberg in clear day, bust up, and sank with all hands, inside of a minute." "Rot!" replied the practical sailor. "The 'Laviny' had collision bulkheads, and couldn't have sunk in no sich time, ef she could at all. 'Sides Cap'n Phinney ain't no man to run down a berg in clear day, nor yet in the night, nor no other time.
"Thought you said you was goin' straight ahead?" he demanded. "Thought I was," replied Simeon, "but, you see, I'm only navigator of this craft, not owner." "Where is the blankety blank?" asked the foreman. "If you're referrin' to Cap'n Berry, I cal'late you'll find him at the depot," answered Phinney. To the depot went the foreman.
THEY'RE enough to make any man blue black and blue. "The 'aquarium' wa'n't a success. Phinney was disgusted. He give one look around, grabbed me by the arm, and marched me out of that building same as Deacon Titcomb, of the Holiness Church at Denboro, marched his boy out of the Universalist sociable. "'It's nothin' but a whole passel of fish, he snorts.
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