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It was mos' nine o'clock then, an' a dark night, an' rainin', but I never said a word they wasn't no room round the edges o' the lump in my throat for words to come out ef they'd 'a' been one surgin' up there to say, which they wasn't but I thess went out an' saddled my horse an' I rid into town.
"I'll appear agin' him to-morrow," said Mr. Appleby. "Now hadn't you boys better stay here all night? It's rainin' cats an' dogs." "No, I must get back to the school," said Tom. "And I'd like Ray to come with me. I want him to help explain certain things to my chums. They know I'm not an incendiary, or a horse poisoner, but some others don't believe that." "We'll soon make 'em!" exclaimed Ray.
Only the lawyer feller was out on the box with me, an' makin' love heavier than it was rainin'. I staved him off all I could, an' with him an' the horses me hands was full. You never see the like of the roads in them days. It was only in later years the Sydney road, I was remarkin', was made good. In them times there was no made roads, and you can imagine the bogs!
He was soon sleeping as soundly as only a thoroughly-tired man can, and would have slept no one knows how long, had not Shorty succeeded in waking him towards morning, after a shaking which exhausted the latter's strength. "Wake up, Mister Klegg," said Shorty; "it must 've bin rainin' dogs, and they're tryin' to tear the shanty down."
Penrose, if you'd ha' kep' him and his mother and o'. But fo'k mun eat, thaa knows. Th' Almeety's gan o'er rainin' daan manna fro' heaven, as He used to do in th' wilderness. Mr. Penrose did not reply. 'Yo' know, Mr. An' as for danger why, yo' connot ged away fro' it. 'Yes; that's sound philosophy, assented Mr. Penrose. 'Mr.
Ellis, her ample face a combination of smiles and tears, "all sunshine and fair weather down below but rainin' steady up aloft," as Captain Lote described it afterwards. And behind her, like a foothill in the shadow of a mountain, was Laban. And behind Laban No, that is a mistake in front of Laban and beside Laban and in front of and beside everyone else when opportunity presented was Issachar.
Catch him with his go to meetin clothes on, a rubbin agin their nasty greasy axles, like a tarry nigger; not he, indeed, he'd stick you up with it. The last time I came by here, it was a little bit arter day light down, rainin cats and dogs, and as dark as Egypt; so, thinks I, I'll jist turn in here for shelter to Squire Bill Blake's.
"Some folks ain't got enough sense to go in outen the rain, seems so." "'T ain't rainin' not so's to call it so," said the crony, whose name was Smith. "The gell's pretty." "Ya-as, kind o'," agreed the station-agent, tilting back critically. "Boy's upstandin'." "Which one?" "Big 'n. Little 'un ain't got no git-up-'n'-git fer one o' his size. Look at him holdin' to her hand."
"That's about all you do do in this hell-hole, buddy," said a man beside him. The man pointed with his thumb at the window and said again: "See that rain? Well, I been in this camp three weeks and it ain't stopped rainin' once. What d'yer think of that fer a country?" "It certainly ain't like home," said Fuselli. "I'm going to have some chauclate." "It's damn rotten."
It seems to help Butsy a lot he acts more cheerful right away. "'Cherries are ripe, he says. 'Our next town's Mount Clinton. I know every boob in it. We'll sift some change out of them Knox County plow-pushers. "We ships over the B. & O. to Mount Clinton. It's rainin' when we unloads, 'n' Butsy ain't as cheerful as he was. "'How far is it to the track? Peewee says to him.
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