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The "stock" had not been set out for the day and the bare counter made the place look forlorn and deserted as they went away. "It's a blamed sight easier than running a refreshment parlor," Pee-wee said; "it's just like picking the money up in the street. All we have to do is to go to Mr. Sawyer's office and tell him and " "You have to go in first," said Pepsy.
What way? He said, 'Don't you recollect when Trewitt chartered Wilson Sawyer's brig to the West Indies? I said, I did. He told me Trewitt then came to him to borrow $600, which he would not lend, except he had a mortgage on me: Trewitt was to take it up at a certain time, but never did. I asked him whether he really took the mortgage on me.
There's a-plenty of boys that's mighty good and friendly when YOU'VE got a good thing, but when a good thing happens to come their way they don't say a word to you, and try to hog it all. That warn't ever Tom Sawyer's way, I can say that for him.
There is nothing so monstrous but we can believe it of ourselves. About ourselves, about our aspirations and delinquencies, we have dwelt by choice in a delicious vagueness from our boyhood up. No one will have forgotten Tom Sawyer's aspiration: "Ah, if he could only die temporarily!"
"And we ought not to give a valuable dog away, anyway!" "We'll see," Mrs. Lee concluded. But that evening Pilot sealed his own doom! For, as the children were playing croquet near the veranda, he came running across the lawn and triumphantly dropped at Billy's feet a beautiful gold fish, quite dead! "Oh oh oh!" screamed Alice. "It's from Sawyer's pond!" cried Peggy on her knees.
I can't begin to tell you how many different friends she had set up since then. There was an ash-man, and a steam-boat captain. There was Mrs. Sawyer's cook, a nice old woman, who gave Katy lessons in cooking, and taught her to make soft custard and sponge-cake. There was a bonnet-maker, pretty and dressy, whom, to Aunt Izzie's great indignation, Katy persisted in calling "Cousin Estelle!"
"I hope I didn't hurt you," he said. "I am sorry. But, anyway, I caught the boat!" "But, you idiot," said the fat man, "the boat was coming in!" He Didn't Mind A certain railway in Michigan has a station entitled Sawyer's Mills, but usually entitled, for short, Sawyer's.
There was Mrs. McKitterick everybody knew about her, of course. And there was Arabella Winters, who was in bed and like to die, one day, and the doctor had her sitting up and going around the next. And as for Jake Sawyer's orphans well, there was no knowing how often he had saved their lives. Yes, the doctor certainly was a caution.
"If we're going to be bossed by the first newcomer," said the former, gloomily, "I reckon we might as well take our chances with the Sawyer's Dam boys, whom we know." "Ef we are going to hev the legitimate trade of Rattlesnake interfered with by the cranks of some hidin' horse thief or retired road agent," said Mosby, "we might as well invite the hull of Joaquin Murietta's gang here at once!
A few thought it was not a bad thing to have a professional bully, and even took care to relate the discomfiture of the wicked youth of Sawyer's Dam for the benefit of a certain adjacent and powerful camp who had looked down upon us. He himself, returning the same evening from his self-imposed escort, vouchsafed no other reason than the one he had already given.
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