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"Did you not tell me that your brother was buried at San Francisco?" "Oh, as for that, that don't matter. It don't count for much whether I told a crammer or not. That picter counts for nothing. It ain't my word you were going on as evidence. You is able to prove that Ferdy Lefroy was buried at 'Frisco. True enough. I buried him. I can prove that.
When it came to the $2000, he pressed it a little with his thumb, as if expecting it to rub off. Then he looked at her, shaking his head. "It's a leetle higher'n I can go," he said slowly. "I wa'n't expectin' it would cost so much. You see, the house itself didn't cost more'n three hunderd, all told, and I thought a picter of it wouldn't cost more'n five or six." "Five or six hundred?"
"'Do they know whar the Injun got the picter? says he, sudden like. "'Not yit, says I, 'but I'm thinkin' they'll find out. "'How? says he. "'I don't know, says I, 'but sich things ginnerly come out in time. At that he laughed as if it was a huge joke. He's a deep one that, fer sure, an' sometimes I think he knows more about the whole bizness than he lets on.
She watched Jonas till he disappeared when he went to work in the morning, she carried him a "snack" at ten o'clock, and headways found her standing "like a picter" at the gate, when he came home to dinner. But Cynthy Ann generally spent her afternoons at Anderson's, helping "that young thing" to bear her responsibilities, though Mrs.
All ther echoes uv all ther battles uv all ther centeries war in my ears. It war grand; grander nor Chatternooga. Thar sea gave up its ded fur me, so fur ez this water goes. History held befo' me all its pages, 'nd they wuz all 'luminated. Ez thet picter swept befo' my eyes, 'nd all thar clamors filled my ears, it war more thrillin' then anything yo' ever dreamed of.
"That Lute Cradlebow he's a handsome boy, teacher. Ah, he's a handsome one. They're a handsome family, them Cradlebows. "There's the old grannie, Aunt Sibby they call her. Lord, she's got a head on her like a picter! They're high-bred, too, I reckon. To begin with, why, Godfrey Godfrey Cradlebow that's Lute's father, teacher; he's college bred, I suppose!
Putty soon I happened ter look round, and, blast my picter, ef there warn't eight Comanches a-comin' after me like the very devil. "I just put the spurs to my hoss; and from the best calculations I could make, I made up my mind thet they'd ketch me in just about ten miles further.
"Theer's truth in that," said Will; then he recollected his last meeting with the miller's man, and suddenly roared with laughter. "'Struth! What a picter he was! He agged an' agged at me till I got fair mad, an' well, I spiled his meal, I do b'lieve." His merriment died away slowly in a series of long-drawn chuckles.
Now then, Mat; what on earth are you staring at? The garden door, or the sketch of the five-barred gate?" "The picter, in course," answered Mat, with unusual quickness and irritability. "It shall be taken down for you to look at close to-night," said Mr. Blyth, delighted by the impression which the five-barred gate seemed to have produced on the new visitor. On leaving Mr.
"What," exclaimed the man, drawing nearer, "is it you? James! but you're a picter, you are hallo!" he stopped, as his glance encountered the steel that glittered upon my wrist; while upon the silence the shouts swelled, drawing near and nearer. "So the Runners is arter you, are they, young feller?" "Yes," said I; "yes.
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