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"I know you can't believe it, but you listen a bit, while I tell Mr. Stone some things. Then you'll see." "Yes, Terence," said Stone; "go ahead. What about the prints?" "They prove up," and Fibsy's woe increased afresh. "They ain't no shadder of doubt. The very reason I know they're the same is 'cause they're so unlike. Yes, I'll explain wait a minute "
There's one man here that ain't afraid of his own shadder. I call on Constable Zeburee Nute to head the committee, and take along with him Constables Wade and Swanton. And I want to say to the voters here that it's a nice report to go abroad from this town that we have to pick from the police force to get men with enough courage to tell a citizen that he's been elected first selectman.
You go hear and see that blessed man, and ef you don't say he's the shadder of a great rock in a desert land, I'll give up," cried the good woman, waxing poetical in her warmth. "I will to please you, if nothing else. I did go once just because I was told not to; but he did not preach that day and every thing was so peculiar, I didn't know whether to like it or be shocked."
We've got a big pull in the weights and that'll count in the last quarter. Stay with him, just like his shadow, Mose." "Yes, suh," said Jockey Jones. "If I'm goin' to be his shadder, he'll sho' think the sun is settin' behind him when he starts down at stretch!" Abe Goldmark craned his neck to see the parade pass the grand stand. Elisha was fifth in line, walking sedately, as was his habit.
"Not a rag of evidence," said the attorney's clerk when he delivered the little brief "not a shadder of evidence, Mr. 'Awkins. It's a walk-over, sir." I knew that meant a nominal fee, but wondered how many more similes he was going to deliver instead of the money.
Sammie has been a regular chip of the old Dunker block ever since he started fer school. He bullied all the little chaps, and had them all scared to a shadder. But when he butted up aginst Rod it was a different proposition, ho, ho! I'd like to have been there." "Do you mean that Rodney was fighting Sammie Dunker?" the clergyman asked, with a note of severity in his voice. "I am astonished."
He comes back at me as though I was afraid o' me own shadder, an' says: 'Billy Brass, I'm s'prised that a man like you doesn't put more faith in prayin' an' trustin' hisself in the hands o' the Almighty. "I was so hot over the foolishness of havin' such a big fire that I ups an' says: "'That may be all right for you, sir, but I prefer to use my wits first, an' trust in Providence afterwards.
"Nothin' but a black speck fur across thar. It come into sight only a minute ago. Fust I thought it wuz a shadder, then I thought it wuz a floatin' log, an' now I do believe it's a canoe. What do you make uv it, Henry?" Henry looked long. "It is a canoe," said he at last, "and there's a man in it. They're floating with the stream down our way."
"Harriet Floyd. Her mother keeps the hotel. They 'ain't been here so mighty long; they're Tennessee folks." "Sweethearts?" "Don't know. He's 'er very shadder. I reckon she likes that sort of a man; she's peculiar, anyway." "How do you mean?" "I don't know, but she is." Jennie shrugged her shoulders. "She don't git on with us.
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