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The little mark of affection comforted Eliza unspeakably. The mother-feeling overwhelmed her in one burst of tears. Then she dried her eyes and smiled at him. "Honey," she said; "mammy ain' gwine lay hyeah long. She be all right putty soon." "Nevah you min'," said Patsy with a choke in his voice. "I can do somep'n', an' we'll have anothah doctah." "La, listen at de chile; what kin you do?"
"Must be somep'n unusual," Buck Higgins decided, and he ventured on "Alphonse" and "Julius Cæsar," but they didn't fit. "Well, we jest nachally got t' give him a name," said Shorty Palmer. Again the list was gone over, but nothing seemed quite right. "Oughta be somep'n' 'propriate," said Bill Jordan. "How 'bout Moses? He was lost in th' wilderness." "Wilderness nothin'!" objected Buck.
And one day Sadie Whirtle goes up to him and says, 'Mist' Toatwood, hear your wife's come home with some fine Parisian clo'es. And Mist' Toatwood says, 'Shucks' on'y he says somep'n worse'n shucks 'Shucks, says he, 'why, my wife never been to Persia in her life." Kern was eighteen, with six years of bread-winning behind her, but she told her story exactly in the manner of a child of eight.
In her eyes there was a far-away light as of a seeress groping. "I don't just know exackly, but I know there's somep'n if we could only think of it if we could just " And her voice became inaudible, as in dreamy concentration she seated herself upon the discarded ice-cream freezer, and rested her elbows upon her knees and her chin upon the palms of her hands.
"Give me somep'n easy! You don't know no more how to play a hand of cards than a giraffe does. I'll throw in all of my Blue Gulch gold-stock and it's worth eight hundred thousand dollars if it's worth a cent I'll put it up against that tin automobile of yours, divide chips even and play you freeze-out for it. You play cards? Go learn hop-scotch!" "You wait!" exclaimed the other indignantly.
Jane urged her, in an eager whisper. "Let's think up somep'n he won't like an' DO it!" They disappeared round a corner of the house, their heads close together. Up-stairs, Mrs. Baxter moved to the door of her son's room, pretending to be unconscious of the gaze he maintained upon her.
"Several of the gentlemen" she continued hopefully, "are wearing stovepipe hats and swallow-tail coats and going as ringmasters but we're all out of tall hats. I can let you have some crape hair for a mustache." "Want somep'n 'stinctive." "Something let's see. Well, we have a lion's head, and a goose, and a camel " "Camel?" The idea seized Perry's imagination, gripped it fiercely.
"'S though she knew 'em by heart. Must 'a' bin some circular, or somep'n' she'd learned aforehand." "Well, what d'ye think o' that?" Jim Walker exploded.
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