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The rhubarb parasol gone, the sun beat upon her uncovered head but she was unmindful of the intense heat. Her brain was wholly occupied with thoughts of Martin Landis and his strange behavior. "Umph," she decided finally, "men are funny things! I'm just findin' it out. And I guess knights are queerer'n others yet! Wonder if Millie kept my half-moon pie or if Phil sneaked it.
You can lop off an hour a day of my work if I c'n send you reg'lar for the critters. That ought to be worth the price of your keep, by itself. Now if I c'n learn you how to milk an' maybe how to mow well, 'twouldn't be a hull lot queerer'n the stunts you done to-day!" It was perhaps a week later that Link Ferris received his quarterly check from the Paterson Vegetable Market.
I'll stand here while your sister reads that letter. He said the answer would be just 'yes' or 'no, and I shouldn't have to wait long. 'She ain't one to teeter long on a decision, says he; 'she finds her footin' one side or the other. He talks queer, queerer'n ever sence he was hurt. I pity anybody that gets him."
Polly out in the kitchen was rehearsing her woes to Solomon. "It's my 'pinion if missus lives much longer she'll be queerer'n Dick's hatband. That just wouldn't lay anyhow, I've heerd tell, though I don't know who Dick was and what he'd been doing, but he was mighty queer. 'Pears to me he must a-lived before the war when General Washington licked the English. And there's no suitin' missus.
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