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What she did was more to the point, however, for she hitched the mules to a rattly old buckboard next day and drove over to the MacDonald ranch on the Wolverine. She carried fifty dollars in her pocket and that was practically all the money Marthy possessed, and had been saved for the debts that harassed her.
"A 'She'?" laughed Uncle Larry, but something as faint and tender as the beautiful smell was creeping into his face. "Yes, it is for a She, Reggie, the most beautiful She in the world," he added, gently. He was wrapping the beautiful smell again in the tissue wrappings. Then it was a Treasury Box. Then you did the treasures up that way, in thin, rattly paper like that. Then what did you do?
The Boy can still hear the pattering of the rain on the rattly windows of that lumbering green omnibus; he can remember every detail of the impressive drive; and Miss Moucher, and the fact of her existence in the flesh, and there present, wiped from his mind every trace of Mme. Tussaud's famous gallery, and the waxworks it contained.
It was Mose crashing headlong into the old messbox where he kept rattly basins, empty lard pails, and such, that roused Ford. He got up and went into the kitchen, and when he saw what was, the matter, extricated Mose by the simple method of grabbing his shoulders and pulling hard; then he set the cook upon his feet, and got full in his face the unmistakable fumes of whisky. "What?
Yes, the outside of her figurehead was mighty hard to beat, everybody said so; but the inside was kind of well, kind of rattly, as you might say. She'd laugh and talk and go on and Ed Farmer he'd hang over the desk there in the office and look at her. Just look and look and look. How many times I've seen 'em that way! It got so that folks begun to talk a little mite.
Johnny crept along the edge of the clock and holding the two feelers over his back looked from his hiding place.... At first all he could see were two hands filling the stockings with rattly things, but when the hands went down below the mantel for more rattly things, Johnny Cricket saw a big round smiling face all fringed with snow-white whiskers.
"What did Labe say to that?" asked Albert, laughing. "He never had a chance to say nothin'. Afore he could answer, that Maria B. Price she was settin' right back of me and eatin' molasses candy out of a rattly paper bag till I thought I SHOULD die she leaned forward and she whispered: 'He looks more to me like that Stevie D. that used to work for Cap'n Crowell over to the Center.
"What's the use of being scared at an old rattly bridge. If you want to help us I'll tell you how you can do it. I made a lot of signs and you can tack them all up on the trees along the road for us if you want to. I'll show you just how to do it."
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