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Updated: May 12, 2025
A thin watch, reflecting something aristocratic in its well-proportioned simplicity. As he examined it his genial face expressed a sort of childish wonderment. There was no card to show from where it had come. He opened the back of the case, and read a brief inscription. "And the little lady would be sendin' this to me!
The old ladies has cleared out, not even lockin' up any of the curios or sendin' a maid to watch me. And when it comes to the feed why, say, it's a reg'lar course dinner, such as you'd put up a dollar for at any of these high-class table dotty ranches. Funny old china they had too, and a big silver coffeepot right on the table.
"Tain't the law, is it?" Joshua Hicks inquired. "You better be gone, Joshua," she said. "No, it ain't the law it's it's something else. It ain't the law, Joshua." "Is it any trouble?" he asked. She answered, strangely agitated, "No, 'tain't no trouble, Joshua." "They ain't a goin' to stop sendin' you your pension?" "Not as I know of, Joshua, but jes' I want to be alone.
"I'll warrant he's a nice handful aboard there 'mongst 'em all, with nothin' to do but drinkin' and dice-throwin' from mornin' to night. Awh, laws!" she said, with a sigh of discontent as the written page lay open before her, "what's the good o' sendin' a passel o' writin' like that to me? 'T might so well be double Dutch for aught I can make out o' any o' it.
And he carried the luggage back into the station. "How far is it to Mr. Connolly's?" Harold inquired of a ragged urchin who had strolled up with several companions. "Fish an' find out," answered the youngster, with a grin. "We'll tache them to be sendin' Emergency men down here," said another. The New-Yorker was fast losing patience.
And the Doctor's wife is very kind, but I shouldn't think o' sendin' the baby away so sudden while the boy is still here. It wouldn't be no kindness to Mis' Mayo, for she'd have a regular French and Indian war right on her premises.
I'll tell you, because they know you're a man of ability, and they're afraid of you, and they know you're a gentleman, and can't be trusted with their deals, so they just shunted you off at Kodunk with a jolly about sendin' you to Congress if you made a hit on a national speech. Crewe.
'Just sayin' 'is good-bye an' sendin' a few partin' sooveniers'; and another sang 'Say aw rev-wore, but not good-bye. 'Stop that howling there, a sergeant called down the line, 'and stop smoking those cigarettes and talking. 'Certainly, sergeant, a voice came back. 'An' please sergeant, will you allow us to keep on breathin'?
"It's lucky the widow's sure o' lots o' happiness in the next world," observed Uncle Terry once, "for she ain't gittin' much in this. "I can't hear Oaks, though, 'thout thinkin' o' Deacon Rogers up in Wolcott, who never mentioned the need o' rain till he'd got his hay in. He was a sly fox, and allus thanked the Lord for sendin' rain nights an' Sundays, so the poor hired men could rest.
And then for eight or ten years she'd lived by herself, just devotin' all her time to little Polly, sendin' her to school, chummin' with her durin' vacations, and tryin' to make her forget that she had a daddy in the discards.
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