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"Calc'late both them young folks was guilty of an error of jedgment when they up and married each other," said Will Pratt, postmaster of Coldriver, in the judicial tone which he had affected since his elevation to office. "Mean Marthy Norton and Jed Lewis, Will? Referrin' to them especial?"
Captain Bailey Stitt cleared his throat. "Referrin' to them automobiles," he said, "I " "Say, Sol," interrupted Wingate, "did I ever tell you of Cap'n Jonadab's and my gettin' took up by the police when WE was in New York?" "No," replied the astounded depot master. "Took up by the POLICE?" "Um hm. Surprises you, don't it? Well, that whole trip was a surprise to me.
Pearson, but I've got sort of in the habit of callin' folks by their first names. Livin' where you know everybody so well gets you into those habits." "Jim suits me. I hope you'll cultivate the habit." "Do you? Well, I will. Now, Jim, referrin' to what I was goin' to say, you, bein' a newspaper man, ought to know everything, but it's pretty plain you don't know Elkanah Chase. Keep his profits!
I might 'a' knowed when she wanted me to shave my mustache off she didn't have no more heart in her than a fish." "That was askin' a lot of a man, sure as the world." "No man can look two ways at once without somebody puttin' something down his back, Duke." "Referrin' to the lady in Wyoming. Sure." "She was white. She says: 'Mr.
Money and business ain't much in this world, after all, when you come to know there's something diff'runt. Love is what I'm referrin' to. Word has jest come to me that you're in love, too, the same as I am." The gaunt Colonel glared malevolently down on the sturdy figure sprawling in the garden chair.
I'm referrin' to the stocky-built young Romeo that picked you up at the door last night." "Oh, yes," says she placid, "Nelson Lindholm. We had Sanskrit together." "Eh?" says I. "Sans-which? What kind of a disease is that?" "It's a language," explains Ruby. "We were in the same class. I thought it might help me in my foreign mission work. I'm sure I don't know why Nelson took it, though.
It comes out so unexpected that for a second or so I just gawps at her, and then I asks: "Referrin' to my hair?" "Forgive me, young man," says she. "But it is such a cheerful shade." "Yes'm," says I. "So I've been told. Some call it fire-hydrant red, but I claim it's only super-pink." "Anyway, I like it very much," says she. "I hope they don't call you Reddy, though?"
My sister, she tinkers 'em up. She said last time she was here that she guessed they'd last my time." "The old ones are always the prettiest," I said. "You ain't referrin' to the braided ones now?" answered Mr. Tilley. "You see ours is braided for the most part, an' their good looks is all in the beginnin'. Poor dear used to say they made an easier floor.
That's right; you remove that good old Valley Tan from the menu of a party who's been adherin' an' referrin' to it year after year for mighty likely all his days, an' it sort o' takes the stiffenin' outen his dignity a lot; he begins to onbend an' wax easy an' confidenshul. Is seems then like he goes about cravin' countenance an' support.
Gibney retorted drily, "we wouldn't need to worry none. Not wishin' to change the conversation, Scraggsy, but referrin' to them eggs you slipped me and Bart for supper, all I gotta say is that the next time you go marketin' in ancient Egypt, me an' Mac's goin' to tell the real story o' the S.S. Maggie to the Inspectors. Now, that goes.
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