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"I s'pose I'll haf to git it for her. An' I want a bold, outspoke dedication on it, Rowton. I ain't a-goin' about it shamefaced. Here, gimme that pencil. Now, I want this inscription on it, word for word. I've got to stop over at Paul's to git him to regulate my watch, an' I'll tell him to hurry an' mark it for me, soon ez you send it over. "Well, so long. Happy Christmus to you an' yo' folks.
But, of co'se, I couldn't fetch her to-day, an' me a-comin' specially to pick out her Christmus gif'. She's jest like a child. Ef she s'picions befo' hand what she's a-goin' to git, why, she don't want it. "I notice when I set on these soap-boxes, my pockets is jest about even with yo' cash-drawer, Rowton. Well, that's what we're here for.
Heriot spoke with some asperity. 'What we must make for, first, is the cheap and humanely conducted lodging-house. 'There are several of those already; but poor St. Pilgrim's 'There are none for the poorest women, said Miss Levering. 'No; even the excellent Barlow was for multiplying Rowton Houses. You can never get men to realize you can't always get women
Here we come, Jinny an' me six miles in the slush up to the hub, an' Jinny with a unweaned colt at home. Whoa-a-a, there! "It's good Christmas don't come but once-t a year ain't it, Jinny? "Well, Rowton, you're what I call a pro-gressive business man, that's what you are.
Four miles out of Chester we passed Rowton Station, lying adjacent to Rowton Moor, where King Charles, standing on the tower of Chester Wall which bears his name, saw his army defeated by the Parliamentarians. We made a late start from Chester, but reached Shrewsbury in time to visit many parts of the town after dinner.
But he calmly went on to explain, as though it were the most natural thing in the world, that he had been in need of a rather considerable sum of money some weeks back for purposes of propaganda, and that, not knowing where else to obtain the money, he had sold up all his belongings and cleared out of his lodgings without paying his rent, 'by way of an example. All this he explained with the air of a man adducing an unanswerable argument, and as his manner did not admit of remonstrance, I simply asked him what he thought of doing now, which started him off on a long account of the opportunities for propaganda afforded by such establishments as Rowton House, the casual wards, and the Salvation Army Shelters.
The collection contains eight stony meteorites that have fallen in the British Islands; but the Rowton meteorite is only the second iron meteorite known as having been found in Great Britain."
An' gives each feller his dinner an' a hat. "I was half afeered you wouldn't be open yet, Rowton but I was determined to git ahead o' the Christmus crowd, an' I started by starlight. I ca'culate to meet 'em all a-goin' back. "Well, I vow, ef yo' sto'e don't look purty. Wish she could see it. She'd have some idee of New York.
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