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He's a terror if he shirks, and unless you watch him like a cat he'll never change the water in the tins every morning. Lots of times I've had to do it myself!" "I'd do it myself sooner'n let them go without, Jim, dear," said the small voice, with a suspicion of a choke. "Don't you do it," said Jim; "slang Billy. What's he here for, I'd like to know!
Some o' the fellers," he pursued with an affectation of a confidential tone, "some o' the fellers said mebbe ye wouldn't send it back cheerful. They said ye'd got no more compassion fer the poor than a flint stun. They said, them fellers did, that ye'd never in yer life let up on a man as owed ye, an would take a feller's last drop o' blood sooner'n lose a penny debt.
I never had nothin' to do with it in the beginnin' an' I ain't never had nothin' to do with it since. My own idea's always been as the Boston people was very foolish to go throwin' their tea overboard sooner'n buy stamps.
Beyond that, I'm makin' up my mind ter look out fer a individual red or white goin' around with his left arm in a sling." "Don't hold too tight t' th' idea that it was in the arm he was bitten " Kiddie cautioned. "Sheila might have seized on any other part of his anatomy. My own notion is that the hound herself will spot him sooner'n you or I could do."
I suppose I'm going to die, so I ain't got any shame about tellin' you all this. Though if I thought I was goin' to live, I'd cut my tongue out sooner'n offend you Oh," he gave a kind of groan "When the news come about Mrs. Warren bein' dead an' you p'raps without money and at the mercy of these Germans ... well! all I wonder at is I didn't steal an airyplane, and come in that.
Den he'd peartin' up, an' he alwuz rode at de head o' de company, 'cause he wuz tall; an' hit wan' on'y in battles whar all his company wuz dat he went, but he use' to volunteer whenever de cun'l wanted anybody to fine out anythin', an' 'twuz so dangersome he didn' like to mek one man go no sooner'n anurr, yo' know, an' ax'd who'd volunteer.
"Peewee's got the correct hunch the first time Snowball takes him out Hamilton runs off 'n' the boy don't get him stopped till he romps five miles. "'Can't you stop him sooner'n that? I says to Snowball when he's back. "Micky's at the stalls that mawnin', 'n' he butts in, as usual. "'Stop him! he says. 'That black boob couldn't stop a hoss in a box stall. Lemme me have him next work-out!
"I would 'a' told you, Johnnie," said the poor woman deprecatingly, "but I never knowed it myself till late last night, and I hadn't the heart to name it at breakfast. I thort I'd git a chance this evenin', but they come sooner'n I was expectin' 'em." "Never mind, Aunt Mavity," said Johnnie. "When I get a little used to it I'll be glad to have them all here.
Hannibal sta'ted in de house soon in de mawnin' wid a armful er wood ter make a fier, en he hadn' mo' d'n got 'cross de do'sill befo' his feet begun ter bu'n so dat he drap' de armful er wood on de flo' en woke ole mis' up an hour sooner'n yuzhal, en co'se ole mis' didn' lak dat, en spoke sha'p erbout it.
I knowed Hank was down in that there cistern, a corpse and a mighty wet corpse, all this time; but they kind o' got me to thinking mebby he was hanging out in the shop by the forge, too. And I guessed I'd better stick to the shop story, not wanting to say nothing about that cistern no sooner'n I could help it.
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