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But at the last minute, Josiah Allen said "he couldn't go." I says "Why can't you go?" "Oh," he says, kinder drawin' up his collar, and smoothin' down his vest, "Oh, I have got another engagement." He looked real high-headed, and I says to him: "Josiah Allen didn't you promise Druzilla Balch that you would go with her and Ezra to-day?" "Wall yes," says he, "but I can't." "Why not?" says I.
"Yes, but I ain't found whar it say, 'Thou shall let a feller kill you." "Oh, there ought to be some way a smoothin' of it over." "Yes, Margaret, a smoothin' of it over an' a pattin' it down with a shovel." "Oh, fur goodness sake, don't talk thatter way. It distresses me so." "Why, jest a while ago you was fretted because I didn't treat it serious.
"Think so?" says Mame. "Well, I built it myself." "Really!" says Vee. "Why, you must be very clever. I wish I could do things like that." Trust Vee for smoothin' down rumpled feathers when she wants to. Inside of two minutes she had Mame smilin' grateful and holdin' her hand as she says good-by. "Poor girl!" says Vee, as we gets to the street.
He was bendin' over Luella layin' there with her yellow hair all streamin' and her pretty pink-and-white face all pale, and her blue eyes like stars gone out, and he was holdin' onto her hand and smoothin' her forehead, and tellin' me to get the brandy in Aunt Abby's room, and I was sure as I wanted to be that Luella had got somebody else to hang onto, now Aunt Abby was gone, and I thought of poor Erastus Miller, and I sort of pitied the poor young Doctor, led away by a pretty face, and I made up my mind I'd see what I could do.
Say, while I was scrubbin' off some of the inkstains and smoothin' down my hair with the silver-backed brushes I felt like a young blood gettin' ready for a party. Then after awhile I strolls down to the lib'ry and makes myself to home some more. It's a comf'table place, with lots of big easy-chairs, nice pictures on the wall, and no end of bookshelves.
'I'm 'fraid he's goin' to down you. Ain't thar no way to fix it? Can't Dan yere settle with this Red Dog man? "'Cert, says Dan Boggs, 'an' I makes the trip too gleeful. Jest to spar' Nell's feelin's, Cherokee, an' not to interfere with no gent's little game, I takes your hand an' plays it. "'Not none, says Cherokee; 'this is my deal. Don't cry, Nellie, he adds, smoothin' down her yaller ha'r.
A steam roller was smoothin' out a strip of pavement that had just been relaid, and nearer by a gang was tearin' up more of the asphalt. I got kind of interested in the way they was doin' it, too. You know, they used to do this street wreckin' with picks and crowbars, but this crowd seemed to have more modern methods.
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