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But I lay he knows 'bout dat ole yaller sherry," and Malachi chuckled. "He keeps a' retchin' fur dat decanter as if he was 'feared somebody'd git it fust." On Fridays there would invariably be a musicale generally a quartette, with a few connoisseurs to listen and to criticise.
Then a little grimly he added: "I only wish somebody'd take advantage like that of me, and sell a picture or two when I'm not looking. Come, we're keeping John waiting." And he took firm hold of his son's arm.
"I shall just say, 'Mamma wishes you'd come to supper at half past five. I won't ask them till the night before for fear somebody'd tell her; but if she goes on the early train, it will be safe enough." "Then aren't you going to say it's a surprise party?" asked Allie, rising to go home, as she saw Mrs. Fisher coming up the street.
I wasn't ridin' so fast an' I heard him comin'. I knowed who it was, an' stopped to have it out with him. He yelled that he didn't want me; that you'd sent him after me. We met Dade an' Malcolm we'd passed Double Fork an' nothin' was bogged down. So we knowed somebody'd framed somethin' up. I come on ahead." He grinned.
"Not much of a one," Mackenzie told him, rather wishing that the particulars might be reserved. "Your neck's black like somebody'd been chokin' you, and your face is bunged up some, too. Who done it?" "Do you know Swan Carlson?" Mackenzie inquired, turning slowly to the boy. "Swan Carlson?" Charley's face grew pale at the name; his eyes started in round amazement.
"Paddy would never be eating mice if it was." "If that clock doesn't soon strike two I shall go out of my seven senses," declared Cecily with unusual vehemence. "Time always seems long when you're waiting," said the Story Girl. "But it does seem as if we had been here more than an hour." "Maybe the clock struck and we didn't hear it," suggested Dan. "Somebody'd better go and see."
Now, I'm going to lean back here and I may talk or I may drop off to sleep, and in either event just let me go. But if I doze off don't wake me, not even when you get ready to leave. Just pull the door to and that's all." "Ain't you afraid to sleep here all by yourself?" the girl asked. "I'd be afraid somebody'd slip in and grab me."
Considerin' that we was half beaten before we started, we'd done a pretty fair job. It was just a question now of how soon somebody'd have nerve enough to make a motion that we quit. That's when we had our first little flutter. "Huh!" says Old Hickory, jabbin' in with his spade. "Must have struck a log. Hand me a pick, someone."
I've kidded the old man a lot about the Maggie, but she's worth two thousand dollars if somebody'd spend a thousand on her inner works an' give her a dab o' paint an' some new fire hose an' one thing an' another." "We'll wait here until Scraggs shows up an' see what he says. If he still says 'Good mornin', boys, we'll answer him civil an' see what it leads to, Gib." Mr.
"Hospital!" exclaimed the young fellow, still smiling sweetly, "thass too bad! Same's my Aunt Polly hic my Aunt Polly's in the hospital, too ole auntie's been havin' twins! Whuzzamatter whiz you?" "I've got a broken arm " Jurgis began. "So," said the other, sympathetically. "That ain't so bad you get over that. I wish somebody'd break my arm, ole chappie damfidon't!
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