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Well, Jethro," said he, with a twinkle in his eye, "are you goin' to reform? I'll bet you've got an annual over my road in your pocket right now." "Enjoy the speech-makin', Steve?" inquired Mr. Bass, solemnly. Mr. Merrill winked at Jethro, and laughed heartily. "Keep the boys away from her, Jethro," he repeated, laying his hand on the shoulder of the lad who stood beside him.
Well, Jethro," said he, with a twinkle in his eye, "are you goin' to reform? I'll bet you've got an annual over my road in your pocket right now." "Enjoy the speech-makin', Steve?" inquired Mr. Bass, solemnly. Mr. Merrill winked at Jethro, and laughed heartily. "Keep the boys away from her, Jethro," he repeated, laying his hand on the shoulder of the lad who stood beside him.
"Iss, turn it how you will, the words be winnin' enow. But be danged, my dear, if I wudn' as lief you said, 'Go to blazes!" "Fact is, my son," said Farmer Tresidder, candidly, "you'm good but untimely, like kissin' the wrong maid. This here surpassin' young friend o' mine was speech-makin' after a pleasant fashion in our ears when you began to bawl "
I've seen a good many young ladies that could talk faster than she could; but if you'd seen her or heerd her when our boardin'-house caught afire, or when there was anything to be done besides speech-makin', I guess you'd like to have stood still and looked on, jest to see that young woman's way of goin' to work.
Well, Jethro," said he, with a twinkle in his eye, "are you goin' to reform? I'll bet you've got an annual over my road in your pocket right now." "Enjoy the speech-makin', Steve?" inquired Mr. Bass, solemnly. Mr. Merrill winked at Jethro, and laughed heartily. "Keep the boys away from her, Jethro," he repeated, laying his hand on the shoulder of the lad who stood beside him.
An' be the powdhers o' war, he had the convaniences for speech-makin', for he had a jaw like a bulldog, an' a mouth on him ye couldn't span with your two hands."
What next? . . . You never told me, neither or not to my recollection as you went in for speech-makin'." "But I don't. I er the fact is, I had thoughts of takin' a lesson or two. Private lessons, you understand." "You don't need to, so far as I can see. What was it I heard you tellin' that widow-woman?
Leastwise, that's somethin' like the speech Willum tried to tell me to deliver, but he warn't good at speech-makin' no more than I at remembrin', and hoped you'd take the will for the deed."
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