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I know some men ain't that way, but then's the time when I beautify my inheritance in Zion the purtiest. And I'm mighty glad Brother Joel can turn out to-morrow. Of course you heard the news?" "What news, Brother Seth?" "Brother Brigham gets here at eleven o'clock from New Harmony." "Brother Brigham coming?"
Your colt is growin up the purtiest thing that ever went on four legs, & jumped an eight-rail fence. My hogs wintered in good shape, & pork is risin. They have the measles over on the Crick, & school's broke up. Bill Scripp's out agin for Sheriff, & I spose I'le have 2 turn 2 agin & beat him. Singler, that he'll never know when he's got enuff.
And a leetle mite coffee. Put in mostly fillin' things rice and beans and dried apples. You got to cram seven hearty children. Thank'e, thank'e, ma'am. Peggy, give the little lady some roses, the purtiest ones where the frost hasn't nipped 'em." While Miss Margery talked with Mrs. Callahan, Anne was getting acquainted with the children. She chattered gleefully about them on her homeward way.
She was splotched with red and white all over, and the purtiest thing, Alf, that you ever laid eyes on. She whirled away and went back to her drummer. He had put the buggy-seat under a tree in sight of where me an' Carrie sat, and, knowing she was looking, I laid myself out to be pleasant to my partner.
"He is gone," he muttered, when he had made certain that no object was to be seen. "I might have knowed that before I looked, 'cause the hoss knows how to travel, and Tom's made him do his purtiest." "Hello! what's the news?" The query came from Ned Chadmund, who had aroused himself from slumber, and was standing at his side. "Where is Tom?"
"First one thing an' then another. You would swear a man's life away one minute an' hug it back into 'im the next. Now, I kin prove what I say, an' you both ought to be ashamed. Mostyn not only told Dolly that dress was the purtiest thing he ever seed, but he told me to come in here an' make 'er take it." The twine fell from the spinster's mouth. She eyed Mrs. Drake steadily. Mrs.
"It's too airly," said Granny, "but it's round thayer in heaps in August an' is the purtiest red iver grew. 'An Pokeweed, too, it ain't har'ly flowerin' yit, but in the fall it hez berries that's so red they're nigh black, an' dyes the purtiest kind o' a purple." "What makes blue?" "Oi niver sane none in the quills. Thayer may be some.
"Is it for me?" The pilot nodded. "Sure t'ing. De purtiest one ever I see. But look!" He called her attention to a beaver cap, a pair of beaded moose-hide mittens, and a pair of small fur boots that went with the larger garments altogether a complete outfit for winter travel. "I buy him from dose hinjun hunter. Put him on, queeck."
"The minute I laid eyes onto them, I made up my mind they were up to some deviltry, and I watched them watched them as a cat does a mouse. I heard that old rascal say something about his looking for the purtiest lady in the valley, and I knew at once he meant Mrs. Perkins, and that roused my dander, as you may guess, and I swore I would go for him.
I gi'en it up," said Jim, with a sigh that showed how painfully Mike was boring him. "Yes, Jim, an' ye think a pig-pen is benathe ye, forgittin' a pig is the purtiest thing in life.
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