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Yeow ain't signin' a thing!" said Aunt Ri. "Jos, yeow tell him I say there ain't anythin' a bindin' him, hevin' his name 'n' thet book, It's only so the Agent kin know what Injuns wants help, 'n' where they air. Ain't thet so?" she added, turning to the Agent. "Tell him he can't hev the Agency doctor, ef he ain't on the Agency books." Not have the doctor?
"'I got you, says he, and we shook hands. 'You go to your hotel and bring the dust, says he, 'and I'll slide along and make the old man sign the bills. I'll meet you on the corner where we met before. "So I met him on the corner, and we went up-stairs to a room where a little old man was signin' bills fast and furious. "'Slide out one, says my friend, 'till I take Mr.
"Notice it's us that's got to suit her, not her us. I kind of like that 'signin' articles, too. You bet she's been brought up in a seagoin' family." "I used to know a Jubal Snow that hailed from Nantucket," suggested Perez; "maybe she's some of his folks." "'Tain't likely," sniffed Captain Jerry. "There's more Snows in Nantucket than you can shake a stick at.
The girl gave him a look of radiant contempt, and he spoke again hurriedly, anxious to prevent a relapse in the conversation. "You was sayin' somethin' to-day about signin' the pledge, Idy: I've been layin' off to sign the pledge this good while. The next time there's a meetin' of the W. X. Y. Z. women, you fetch on one o' their pledges, an' I'll put my fist to it."
An' ef he thinks the two or three kaigs of wine he's poured into that poor, miser'ble, sozzlin' old man o' mine has had anything to do with me signin' this deed, he's a bigger fool than I took 'im to be, an' that's sayin' a good deal."
Somebody committed it there for you evidently. There was only a few marks of identification, a big set ring with a jagged break in the set that swiped too swift acrost a man's face might leave a ugly scar for life, and if the fellow tried too hard to drown hisself he might wrench a man's right arm so out o' plum he couldn't never do much signin' his name again.
"Arter a while I begun to feel a little queer; things got foggy in my upper works, an' I remembers, faint-like, of signin' a paper; then I remembers bein' in a small boat; an' then I remembers nothin' until I heard the mate's whistle pipin' all hands on deck.
"Of course you wouldn't want to tie her up so she couldn't marry anybody else, though I honor your pluck in not lettin' 'em force you into signin' the paper. McElwin is a mighty over-bearin' sort of a man.
I have a notion that, take it five or six years from now, it'll be her that'll be bringin' us up in the way we should go. I feel a good deal as if I was signin' on for a long voyage with the chances that I'd finish mate instead of skipper." "Say, Judge," he added, just before leaving for home, "there's one thing more I'd like to say.
Madam Clifton wonnot a budge a finger, to the signin and sealin of her gratification of applause, whereby as if so be as that the kole a be not a forth cummin, down on the nail head. And where now might Timothy Tipkin sifflicate that it may behappen to be for to come from? Pummel thy pumkin, and a tell me that, Peter Grievous. Where, but out of my pouche, Gaby?
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