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I took a heap of them back, too, but somehow I've got more time than I used to have. Somehow I jest wander round " Tom took a tin box from beside the tobacco box. "'T would be awful if the letter didn't come once't every ten days or two weeks! Reckon I'd go plumb crazy, an' so would Sairy " Sairy turned the garment she was patching. "Sho! I wouldn't go crazy.
On receiving this unexpected reply, they looked at one another in comic dismay; but would certainly have gone to No. 5, and taken a look at the modern Sairy, if the woman hadn't called out as they moved on 'I b'lieve that nuss's name is Britiain, not Gamp; but you can ask.
When he caught the measles from Sairy Baxter's baby Lizzie sot up day 'nd night till he wuz well, holdin' his hands 'nd singin' songs to him, 'nd cryin' herse'f almost to death because she dassent give him cold water to drink when he called f'r it.
When David had filled the plates and handed them along Sairy was for bringing in and taking out; they did their own helping to vegetables and "passin'" he hesitated a moment, and then got out of his chair and started in the direction of the kitchen door. "What's the matter?" asked Mrs. Bixbee in surprise. "Where you goin'?" "Woodshed," said David.
Swaney aims to start his school?" "Right after harvest," said Abe before his stepmother had a chance to answer. Tom ignored him and went on talking to his wife. "Now, mind you, Sairy, I ain't saying Abe needs any more eddication. I ain't saying it is fitting a son should know more'n his pa. But if you think the young ones should go to this new school for a spell, I won't say no."
I beckuned to the chap to stop the train, wi' me vork as I hed jest stuck into the last sausinger. I hed clapt a good mouthful in, or I could hev hollur'd loud enough vor him to heer. The train didn't stop, an' the vellers in green laughed to see I wur left in the lurch, as I tell'd them that Sairy Jane would be sure to meet the Lunnon train.
"I'm going to see the view if I fall out of every tree I climb," Sarah said, hotly. "Don't object if I find you a boardin' house?" "I'm going to board with Grandma Penny that was Mrs. Spackles." Scattergood nodded. "G'-by, Sairy.... G'-by, Nahum."
She acted mighty queer at milkin', and I reckon she'd better have a little bran mash Sairy Jane," turning suddenly upon her eldest daughter, "if you eat another one of them peanuts I'll box your jaws " Nicholas finished the peanuts and went upstairs to his little attic room.
I've had my bellyful o' Frenchies, Mr. Carvell save it be to fight 'em. An' I tell 'ee 'twould give me the greatest joy in life t' leave loose 'Scolding Sairy' at that there Landais. Th' gal ain't had a match on her this here cruise, an' t' my mind she couldn't be christened better, sir." I left him patting the gun with a tender affection.
But, down in the pretty parlor, the returning soldier is still master of the situation. Thank heaven for the beneficence which surrounds the birth of love with the supervisory ministration of no meddling old woman! Were it otherwise, the ancient and honorable profession of which Mrs. Sairy Gamp is the faithful exponent would never have been called into being. Ray and Mrs.
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