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"From you!" he exclaimed, with apparent astonishment; "well, then, I can't say that I have any recollection of it I remember something that is, some dalins or other I had wid the maid, but I don't remember purchasin' anything from you, ma'am." "It was a shawl," she replied, "which you purchased, if you remember, and paid for, but which you forgot to bring with you."
It seems that they had went on a pretty good jog, and seein' my bearers had got belated with me they had took a short cut acrost the fields to overtake 'em. But it was a eppisode not to be forgot, and I told Josiah not to be separated away from me a minute after this. Sez I, "I almost feel like purchasin' a rope and tyin' myself to you for the rest of the tower."
"Yes, the muley cow." "No, I don't guess I want her." "You seemed so damn curious about my stock, Ah 'lowed ye were purchasin'." "Oh, no. I just thought you must have an extra lot of cattle to be providing for, or you wouldn't have needed to hire this land and to make an extra big crop of corn."
"Well, I never said it afore," added Union Mills, "but when that one of the Mattison boys came over here to examine the claim with an eye to purchasin', it was the Old Man that took the conceit out of him. He just as good as admitted that a lot of work had got to be done afore any pay ore could be realized.
"Ve got 'em up to veefty dollars " "Come off it, Cain, come off I ain't purchasin' a diamond aigrette to-day, it's a lady's hair-comb I want good, but not too flossy-lookin' savvy that? This'll do, I guess how much? Right there!" said Spike, flicking a bill upon the counter. "That's it, stick it in a box oh, never mind th' wrappin's. S'long, Daniel!"
"Well, I never said it afore," added Union Mills, "but when that one of the Mattison boys came over here to examine the claim with an eye to purchasin', it was the Old Man that took the conceit out of him. He just as good as admitted that a lot of work had got to be done afore any pay ore could be realized.
I had spent money free among them farmers, to boom trade, and for the purchasin' of fancy clothes, more to look at than be comfortable in, the idee bein' to show how good a thing the Church of Mormon was to the first glance of the eye. And now, after side-trackin' my railroad fare home, I weren't wadin' in wealth, by no means.
"Sort of out of repairs, of course, seem' it ain't been lived in for most ten years, not since Mrs. Craig died. Was you considerin' purchasin', sir?" "Er no." Wade was writing rapidly on the brown paper. "The fact is, Mr. Prout, I own the Craig house now." "You don't say?" exclaimed the store-keeper in genuine surprise. "You ain't surely you ain't Ed Craig?" "No, my name's Herrick.
"What, is it the old oars ye want?" interrupted Grandpa, "why, Lord a massy! you know whar' they be, fisherman, alongside that old pile o' rubbish on hither side o' the barn, and don't talk about purchasin' take 'em and keep 'em as long as ye want, they ain't no account to me now." "I am very much obliged to you, Captain," the fisherman said, "I am very sorry to have interrupted this a "
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