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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Well, if ever I see picters, I see 'em now, and I declare to goodness it's as interestin' as playactin', every bit. Miss Di with all them boughs in her head, looks like the Queen of Sheby, when she went a-visitin' What's-his-name; and if Miss Laura ain't as sweet as a lally-barster figger, I should like to know what is."
He gave his horse a cut across the knees, to remind him to plant his feet carefully among the sharp boulders; and then, choosing a smooth bit by the side of the road, he and George went forward together. "You've took to picters, I see," said George, nodding towards the cart. "So I have, my dear," said the Cheap Jack; "any thing for a livelihood; an HONEST livelihood, you know, George."
"Wall, from fair to middlin', then," sez he. "But for real beauty," sez he, "give me them picters made in corn, and oats, and beans. Give me that Dakota cow made out of grain, with a tail of timothy grass, and straw legs, and corn ear horns. There is real beauty," sez he. "Or that picter in the State Buildin' of the hull farm made in seeds.
They shrugged their shoulders with faces of comical despair as the old man, having fairly taken the lead, babbled on about the "picters," the "stattys," and the "yaller satin cheers" in the grand drawing-room; whilst the other teachers listened with open mouths, and an evident and growing desire to see Oakford Grange.
He o't to take one if there is. He made fust-rate picters, fust-rate " "The whole lot wa'n't wuth the Jennie." Andy spoke with sharp jealousy. "Well, mebbe not mebbe not. Want a game of checkers, Andy?" "I don't care," sullenly. Uncle William brought out the board and arranged the pieces with stiff fingers. Andy watched the movements, his eye callous to pleasure. "It's your move, Andy."
Dumb their dumb picters." Sez I, "Don't go in that spirit, Josiah Allen." "Wall, I shall go in jest that sprit," he snapped out, "if I go at all." And he went. But oh! it wuz a sight to set and look on, and see the look onto his face, as he picked the innocent blossoms. It wuz a look of such deep loathin', and hatred, combined with a sort of a genteel, fashionable air.
For these picters wuzn't picked out haphazard all over the country. No, they had to, every one on 'em, run the gantlet of the most severe and close criticism. The Jury of Admittance stood in front of that gallery, and over it, as you may say, like the very finest and strongest wire sieve, a-strainin' out all but the finest and clearest merits. No dregs could git through not a dreg.
But Land! they was just thick with mould, and so was everythin' in the place, even to an old gittar with the strings most rotted off of it, and the picters of fur-rin-lookin' women on the walls, trinin'-lookin' creeturs most of 'em. They hunted all through his desk, but couldn't find no log.
You ez up to their ways ez a mus'rat to a mussel, er a kingfisher to a minner," exclaimed Tim admiringly, as he loosened the troll from a two-pound bass. "Hit's p'intedly a pity you're out uv your head 'bout picters." "Oh, I have one! I have one! a fish!
"No, but I wouldn't worship you, though I'd rather worship you than anybody else ef I was goin' into the worshipin' business. But you see I a'n't, honey. I wouldn't sacrifice to you no lambs nor sheep, I wouldn't pray to you, nor I wouldn't kiss your shoes, like people does the Pope's. An' I know you wouldn't make no idol of me like them Greek gods that Andrew's got picters of.
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