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Old Lady Lamson must have spent at least half an hour in the cellar, for when she ascended it was after four o'clock, and the school-children had passed the house on their way home. She heard their voices under the elms at the turn of the road. "I ain't to blame if I can't ketch 'em," she remarked calmly, as she blew out her light. "I don't see's anybody could say I was to blame.
He ought t' inquired about th' claim before he done that. But long's it's all one with my plans fer improvin' I don't see's I ought t' kick." He chuckled again, and spat. "I know, and so does dad," said Dallas, "that a man filed upon this quarter-section in July. We didn't find it out, though, till long after we built this house. We know his six months is almost up, too.
Them as you hears and don't see's rats; and them as you sees and don't hear's howls. What d'yer think o' that?" "It wasn't a rat, nor it wasn't a howl, as I see," said Peter solemnly; "but something gashly horrid, as looked down at me from up in the rafters of that there dark place, and it made me feel that bad that I didn't seem to have no legs to stand on." "Tchah!" cried the gardener.
"Well, not when you git 'em good," the woman admitted. "Ril good." "And what's the matter with a piece of mince pie?" "I don't see's there's any great deal. Hot?" "Every time." "I thought so," said the woman. "We have it both ways, but I'd as soon eat a piece of I don't know what as a piece o' cold mince pie." "We have mince pie right along at our house," said the young man.
The Seventy-seventh Ohio, of Hildebrand's brigade, was ordered the evening before to go out to See's, Sunday morning, and reinforce the picket reserve stationed there, and was up early Sunday morning. General Buckland, having slept little in the night, rose early. While at breakfast he received word that the pickets were heavily attacked, and were falling back toward camp.
"You don't buy a motor-boat to smell of," he said tartly. "You seem to forget it's to sail in." "But if the eel-grass holds you hard an' fast in one spot most of the time I don't see's you do much sailin'," taunted Jan. "'Pears to me you're just adrift an' goin' nowheres a good part of the time." "No, I ain't" snapped Zenas Henry with rising ire. "It's only sometimes the thing gets spleeny.
Laudersdale's handkerchief fell at that moment from the hand that hung over the balustrade. Capua darted to restore it. "Bress her pretty eyes!" said he. "Ole Cap see's fur into a millstone as any one!" and vanished through the doorway. "I beg your pardon," said Mr. Raleigh, turning to Mrs. Laudersdale.
'I wish Harry would come in, I said aloud, 'I think I should write to grandmamma to-day. 'He won't be long, said Lindsay, 'Harry always keeps to his time, and then he began his stories. I'm afraid I don't remember what they were. There were a great many 'you see's' and 'and so's, but at another time I daresay I would have found them interesting.
My bill d'ye see's been galloping for the last three weeks, and at lunch to-day the proprietor fellow said he couldn't wait any longer for my remittances. He said that if they didn't come by evening he'd rather I went, leaving my baggage behind by way of souvenir.
I ought to have some crape, I know, but I don't see's I can. It would be the right thing, though. I'll ride in a carriage," she boasted. "I suppose they'll have black horses. I haven't seen anything back where I come from, so's I'd know just what is the fashionable thing. It'll be a fashionable funeral, won't it? He's a great big man, he is.
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