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'You had better put the rattletrap thing away, John, and go in and help they. Never wasted money in all my life over such a thing as that before. What be he going to do all the winter? Bide and rust, I 'spose. Can you put un to cut off they nettles along the ditch among they stones? 'It would break the knives, said the son.
How had she fallen only this afternoon, supposing herself high-born of great institutions, to find herself in the turning of an eyelash merely the creature of an ugly little rattletrap!... But no, no! That was simply ridiculous. Business was like that. No one had ever really supposed that a factory could possibly be anything different....
Indiana appeared to him the land of promise. Most of his property such as it was except his carpenter's tools, he traded for whisky, four hundred gallons. Somehow he obtained a rattletrap wagon and two horses. The family appear to have been loath to go. Nancy Lincoln had long been ailing and in low spirits, thinking much of what might happen to her children after her death.
Good gracious, Mr. Plunket, I should like to know what you call comfort. How can any one be comfortable in such a miserable old rattletrap of a place as this?" "You thought it a love of a house, you remember, before we came into it." "Me? Me? Mr. Plunket? Why, I never liked it; and it was all your fault that we ever moved here." "My fault?" "Yes, indeed, it was all your fault.
It's a lively little blow all right, though I suppose the people up here, who are used to much worse things, wouldn't think this anything." "P'raps they might if they were out so far from land, in such a little pumpkinseed of a boat," complained Step Hen. "And with an old rattletrap of a motor that's threatening to wheeze its last any minute, at that," added Giraffe, fiercely.
"Ef you know which side of your bread the butter's on, you'll side with me," he said. "We don't often have butter on our bread, an' I ain't goin' ter side with nobody," grumbled Toby Vanderwiller. "S-s!" hissed Raffer. "Come here!" Toby stepped closer to the rattletrap carriage. "You see your way to goin' inter court an' talkin' right, and you won't lose nothin' by it, Tobe." "Huh?
And it seems yes, it seems to me as if here was the chance; nothin' but a chance, and a risky one, but a chance just the same. Emily, I'm thinkin' of fixin' up Uncle Abner's old rattletrap and openin' a boardin'-house for summer folks in it. "Yes, yes; I know," she continued, noticing the expression on her companion's face.
His other progeny was represented by two sturdy boys, combative of instinct and firm of tread, and whose gambols, whether pacific or bellicose, were apt to shake the rattletrap old semi-detached and the parental nerves in about equal proportions; constituting, furthermore, a standing bone of parental contention.
He lived in a rattletrap shanty close to the water, where he could still watch with dim eyes the ebb and flow of the tide, and the ships pass out and in, and where he could revive old memories of the days when he, too, went down to the sea in ships. To reach his shanty from the Hill one had to pass through the Pit, and thither the three boys were bound.
There's my cousin Kate, who will spoon with me by the hour in a greenhouse, and dance as often as I like to ask her, but at the cover-side she is so ashamed of me she shuns me like the plague; and then, of course, next ball it is, 'Dear Harry, do introduce me to Major Rattletrap, or some such soldier officer, 'I like the look of him so much. 'I just offered to, says I, 'but he didn't seem to rise; said his card was full.
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