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Updated: June 11, 2025
She pretends, fer my sake, but bein' a lady born an' bred, her mind's naterally set on silks an' satins, gems, a pianner an' statooary." "I can't believe it," said my brother. "Mrs. Panel has always seemed to me the most sensible woman " "Lady, if you please." "I beg pardon the most sensible lady of my acquaintance, and the most contented with the little home you've made for her."
I rubbed it so bright, that when the boatswain came to summon me to dinner, he signified his approval in his own peculiar fashion, which appeared to be that of an acknowledged wit. "H'm!" said he, "I'll say that for ye, young shore-loafer, that you've learnt that the best part of polishing-paste is elbow-grease. It wasn't all parley-voo and the pianner where you was at boarding-school!"
"I had to skin up to Skyland nex' day. Jud says the soop'rintendent has to light out quicker'n he'd thought, but he didn't fergit about the pianner. Mis' Sneath was as easy as greased skids, but Mr. Sneath he didn't know exactly. He sends the pianner over to the warehouse there 'longside the flume an' has the men slap together a stout boat to run her down in; but at the las' minute he backs out.
You can do it; you're goin' to be boss, an' you know it will be all right. I'll see that they ain't a scratch on it; an' you can put it in the warehouse, an' they'll never know it's be'n away. "An' so she keeps a-teasin' an' a-teasin', till finally Jud he gits desperate. "'Oram, says he to me one day, 'Oram, you're an ol' flume man. What do you think o' runnin' that pianner down to Five?
You see, you sorter owe us a friendly call havin' always dropped inter the hotel only as a customer so ye'll stop here over luncheon, and I reckon, as the old woman is busy, why Kitty will try to make the time pass till then by playin' for you on her new pianner."
The pianner had flew down an' lit onto a big, flat rock, an' the' wasn't a piece of her left as big as that there plate.
"It'll be five hundred at least, p'raps a cool thou, then I'll buy Octavius and Septimus out, and mother and the old man shall chuck up that dirty selection, and come an' get all the custom here. And the kids can go to school, an' I'll get Polly an' Blarnche a pianner." The rapt look of the visionary was on his face.
"'She's mighty anxious to l'arn, says Jud. 'She wants a pianner awful bad. "'Does she? says the soop'rintendent. 'She oughter have one. "When he come along to the house he says to Jess, who stuck her head outer the door an' looked kinder skeer'd-like, says he, 'I wish yeh'd sing a few songs fer me.
Mozart Rabiner plays for her on the pianner, Mawruss; and when she gets through, the way Rabiner jollies her you would think she would be buying goods for Marshall Field yet. After that, Geigermann takes the fiddle and him and Moe Rabiner gets together by the pianner and for three quarters of an hour, Mawruss, they work away like they was being paid for it."
"Jud he argies with him, 'cos he knows Jess's heart'll be broke if she don't git the pianner; an' after a while he thinks he's got it all fixed; but jest afore Sneath an' his wife takes the stage he telaphones down to the warehouse to let the pianner stay there till he comes back. Then he goes away, an' Jud is as down in the mouth as if he'd run his fist ag'in' a band-saw.
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