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Updated: June 29, 2025
"Remember that yellow house where I went to git water?" Lou laughed, but there was a new note of shyness in her voice. "When we passed it first I saw that the currant bushes were just loaded down, an' a woman was out pickin' them, though it's ironin' day. I figgered if I pick for her she'd maybe pay me, an' she did. I I guessed you was out of this."
He wor just as good a hand at makin' excuses as he wor at pickin' out winners better, I think! I nivver knew wheer I was wi' him he'd pay up, and then he'd persuade me to go in for another do wi' t' brass I'd won, and happen we should lose that time, and then of course we had to hev another investment to get back what we'd dropped, and so it went on.
Brewster, placing a chair on the vine-shaded porch. "Ah come t' ast you-all say, you, Sally, stop pickin' them flowers! Mis' Brewster'll lick yuh!" The visitor interrupted herself to shout at her little girl who proved to be a naughty one. "Ez Ah was sayin', Ah come t' leave an invite fer th' hop at Bear Forks.
"`You see the advantage, says he, `o' bein' a little feller. `That's so, says I, but I didn't say or think no more that I knows on after that, for we had got within musket range, and the small bullets went whistling about our heads, pickin' off or woundin' a man here an' there.
There's one chap carries pots, a poor, low trade as any on the road, he says, 'Why Toby's nought but a mongrel; there's nought to look at in her. But I says to him, 'Why, what are you yoursen but a mongrel? There wasn't much pickin' o' your feyther an' mother, to look at you. Not but I like a bit o' breed myself, but I can't abide to see one cur grinnin' at another.
"I want to speak with him." The girl obeyed, and he stepped boldly into the open. "Tex!" The man whirled. "What you doin' here?" his face flushed red, then, with an effort, he smiled, as his eyes rested upon the blossoms. "Pickin' posies?" "Yes," answered Endicott, striving to speak lightly, "for a very special occasion.
Winters, from the other end of the quilt, glad to get a slap at the mischievous instrument. "No, I didn't!" said Miss Long indignantly. "It was when Arabella and me were down there, pickin' strawberries in the old clearin'. You can ask Arabella, there, if you don't believe me." Miss Arabella, with an apologetic glance at her sister-in-law, corroborated the statement.
"Well, sur, you have rendered we some help this hevenin', both in the way o' pickin' out the ball an' helpin' to break skulls as well as preventin' worse, so we can do no less than show 'ee the road; but hark 'ee, sur," here the man became very impressive, "ef you do chance to come across any of us in your travels, you had better not knaw us, 'xcept in an or'nary way, d'ye understand? an' us will do the same by thee."
He cut Peg Barney as near as might be on the oi that I'd squshed whin we first met. Peg wint spinnin' acrost the tent. "'Peg him out, sorr, sez I, in a whishper. "'Peg him out! sez me orf'cer bhoy, up loud, just as if 'twas battalion-p'rade an' he pickin' his wurrds from the Sargint.
They talked together as only youth may talk with youth, when Romance lights the trail, when the heart speaks from itself to heart in sympathy. Yet their chat was not without humor or they would not have been Pete and Andy. "You always was a wise one," asserted Andy; "pickin' out a professional nurse for your girl ain't a bad idee." "I had a whole lot to do with pickin' her out, didn't I?"
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