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"Oh, I didn't mean any offence!" exclaimed Janice, much disturbed now to think that she had criticised the man just as he was in the habit of criticising everybody else. "I snum! mebbe you're right," grunted Walky Dexter. "And I reckon talkin' don't do much good after all. Now, look at Cross Moore. I been at him a year an' more to fix that rail fence along the ditch by his house.
"Consarn Walky Dexter, anyway! I guess, as Marty says, what he puts in his mouth talks as well as sings for him. "I snum!" added the farmer, shaking his head. "I dunno which is the biggest nuisance, an ill-natered gossip or a good-natered one. Walky claims ter feel friendly to Mr. Haley, and then comes here with all the unfriendly gossip he kin fetch. Huh!
"And we've both of us learned Ellen geography and spellin' and 'rithmetic, till we know most as much as she does," said Fanny. "That's so," said Fanny. "I snum, I believe I could get into the high-school myself, if I wasn't goin' to git married," said Eva, with a gay laugh. She was so happy in those days that her power of continued resentment was small.
The box was passed about, and everyone looked at the gold in silence. "Well, I snum! Yer've done it! I didn't believe yer could, but yer've done it!" This remark, from a man in front, made most of the people laugh. One very serious old man kept the box in his hands. He had neither laughed nor smiled when the man in front spoke, but he looked earnestly at Mr. Snider.
So the special train from Boston brought the "house-party" down, and our two-seated buggy brought Beriah and Eben over. They didn't have anything to do but to look "picturesque" and say "I snum!" and "I swan to man!" and they could do that to the skipper's taste. The city folks thought they was "just too dear and odd for anything," and made 'em bigger fools than ever, which wa'n't necessary.
"Yep," said Massey, the druggist, at his front door, and whom the expressman had hailed. "And here comes the procession." From up the hill came a troop of boys most of them belonging in the upper class of the school. Marty was one of them, and in their midst walked the young schoolmaster! "I snum!" ejaculated Walky. "I guess that feller ain't got no friends oh, no!" and he chuckled.
"Wal, I snum!" exclaimed Uncle Jason, still staring at the bit of paper, which was a Wells-Fargo express check for the sum named. Janice could scarcely eat any dinner, she was so excited. What was mere eating to the possession of this check and the knowledge that all was going well once more with dear Daddy? Her most particular friends must share the joy with her.
I snum! they buzz around that readin'-room for chances to read the papers like bees around a honey-pot. "An' that ain't all no, sir! 'Most ev'rybody seems ter be discontented that's right! Even folks that git their 'three squares' a day and what they want to wear, ain't satisfied with things as they is, no more. I dunno what we're all comin' to.
"I'm blest!" said Gideon. "I snum to goodness!" said the dazed Sharon. "The darned skeesicks!" Merle still listened. Again he raised a now potent hand. "She says she doesn't know how she came to do it, except that he put a comether on her." He hung up the receiver and fell into a chair before the table that held the telephone. "Scissors and white aprons!" said Sharon.
Though in felling the tree I had disturbed them considerably, none of them had come down to sting us, but now they filled the air. Apparently the swarm was a large one. Old Hughy was a good deal disappointed. "I snum, that 'ere's a bad mess," he grumbled. At last he concluded that we should have to fell the hemlock. Judging from the ticklish way the basswood hung on it, the task looked dangerous.
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