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"Well, sir, I'm deuced glad I didn't let on to Melindy, for like all wimen she'd be a peekin' to see what it was. It's terrible queer that not one of 'em is better than another. Still we can't get along without 'em, nohow." Here Mr. Spriggins emphasized the remark by a shrug of his herculean shoulders, and allowed himself to think what a blank this world would be without Melindy.
Ann said afterward she had thought at first it was a Miss Spriggins who came sometimes to sew for her mother, but it was not; it was only a very large gray goose neatly dressed in blue and white bed-ticking, with a large white apron tied round her waist and wearing big spectacles with black rims to them. "Nothing to-day, thank you," said the Goose. "But please " began Rudolf.
"Well, well, if here ain't all the folks," exclaimed good natured Simon Spriggins, bursting into the best room with several straws clinging to his trousers a practical illustration of attraction of adhesion. "Missus Squires, I do declare! Why, it does one's eyes good to see you. And Missus Rider, too I haven't seen her for an age. Why it makes me feel young agin to see one of my old beaux around.
That Moses Spriggins formed a connecting link in some future disclosure he was doubly convinced, but it must come about by an established order of things; and the young lawyer thanked God that he was given sufficient strength to withstand the power of the tempter. When Mr. Lawson went home that evening he received the full benefit of the information imparted to Miss Lottie.
"Never say again that you can't dance, Mr. Spriggins," cried the exuberant Lottie, bounding toward the latter with the grace of a fairy, "and be sure to remember that you are my partner for the next round dance." "Round dance," said Moses in perplexity. "A polka for instances, Mr. Spriggins!"
Spriggins made a flourish with his brawny arm and beckoned to the young men who now were introduced, and received warm congratulations. As cheer upon cheer rose from the crowd Moses became half frantic with enthusiasm. "Tell ye what it is, Mr. Lawson, them's the fellars to scare the half-breeds. Bet your life on't, they'll soon make quick work of the Injuns round Frog Pond and Cut Knife Creek."
Spriggins was sent home rejoicing from the fact that he had become insured in the Safety Fund. Phillip Lawson was re-established at his desk, and not wishing to allow his thoughts to wander to the subject which had hitherto occupied them, took up a novel that lay upon the opposite shelf. It was one of George Eliot's masterpieces Daniel Deronda.
Mr. Spriggins having confided his affairs, and seeing that business absorbed the attention of his audience, finally took leave, with the parting injunction to give him a call if they happened his way. It did, indeed, seem a strange coincidence that while Mr.
A lengthy speech might have followed, but our legal friend averted the catastrophe by informing his client that the Dominion Safety Fund office was close at hand, and with quiet mien escorted the said Mr. Spriggins to the door. A genial "come in" answered the summons of the applicant, and in another chapter we will be able to inform the reader how the veritable Mr.
"Farewell! a word that must be, and hath been A sound which makes us linger, yet farewell." Byron. "Gracious, Melindy; one would think the half-breeds were a-comin'. For mercy sake come out and hear the rumpus." Moses Spriggins had rushed into the kitchen, his eyes ready to start from their sockets. Melindy was busy frying pancakes and setting the table for the evening meal.
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