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To us standing in the corner waiting our turn, it seemed that every "smitch" of the dinner was in danger, for the others were not far behind Ed and Dan. At last even the gauntest of them filled up and left the room and we were free to sit at "the second table" and eat, while the men rested outside.
Well, he looked as carefully as he could, but my land sakes and a pair of white gloves! he couldn't seem to find a smitch of gold and not so much as a crumb of diamonds. "Hum!" exclaimed Uncle Wiggily, "at this rate I guess I'll have to keep on traveling for several years before I find my fortune. But never mind, I'm having a good time, anyhow. I'll keep on searching."
"Can't help what you think about it this time," she said when her father asked her where she was going; "I've made up my mind that if you won't say the Fort, why then I'll have to drive to Clark's for Mr. Lounsbury. We don't know for sure what that pole meant. We must ask." "Aw, you ain't got a smitch o' pride," he taunted jealously. "Goin' t' Lounsbury. Wal! Wal!
I can't be stingy with it and not blush. I can't sit there like a swollen wood-tick and be rich all by myself." "All right, Nell; all right. It's a perfectly understandable way of looking at it, if it is rather far-fetched. But good-by to the hard-earned thousands. You won't have a smitch of them left." "Good-by, then, and good riddance!" cried Aurora violently, almost pettishly.
"Not a smitch of one," declared the other girl decidedly, "an' I'm a-goin' to hold this one, and pretend I'm its mother." Phronsie drew a long breath, and drew slowly near. "You may," she said at last.
He was not sure, perhaps, whether he would join the ship Cap'n Amazon recommended, so why should he not send his chest by express?" "Cap'n Am'zon! Humph!" sniffed Betty. "Nobody knows whether that's his name or not. He comes here without a smitch of clo'es, as near as I can find out." Louise was amused; yet she was somewhat vexed as well.
"Lunch is gone, every smitch of it!" said Kit. "Hope it'll kill her dead!" said Sarah Ketchum. "We'd better have left it in the wagon. Bob couldn't have eaten it all," said Clara. "I wish Jule had taken it along," said Dick. "I wish Dick had taken it along," said Julius. "But what're we going to do?" said Constance. "We might buy something if anybody lived about here." "There isn't any money."
Whether any of the men recollected that it was their cruelty that had driven him to this act of desperation I can't say, but probably it didn't much trouble their consciences; they only considered he was a fool for his pains. Two or three days passed away, when Sam Smitch was well-nigh forgotten.
"Got a job, Jim?" asked Trimmins, after thanking Janice for the ride, and getting out of the automobile. "Not a smitch of work since I come out of the woods," admitted the bewhiskered man, rising quickly from the stoop to make way for Janice. "Come on, old feller," said Trimmins. "I want to talk to you. If you are favorable inclined, I reckon I got jest the job you've been lookin' for."
"I don't know meself where's Nora then, so I don't," answered his companion. "The shild would n't stop for a sup o' breakfast before she 'd go out to see the town, an' nobody 's seen the l'aste smitch of her since. I might sweep the streets wit' a broom and I could n't find her." "Maybe she's strayed beyand and gone losing in the strange place," suggested Mr. Quin, with an anxious glance.
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