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"Sure, Miss Bumpus," he said, "if you was a man, we'd have you on the force to-morrow." "What's he wanted for?" "Well," said Johnny, "a little matter of sprinklin'. He's been sprinklin' his company's water without a license." She was silent a moment before she exclaimed: "I ought to have been wise that he was a crook!"
I'd been up to town, to take a mess o' clams at Giberson's, with maybe a sprinklin' of his apple-jack, nothing else, and I was on my way home, to Skillman's tavern at the dépôt, you know, and I'd jest stopped a piece, and was a-standing there, looking at the moon in the water, when he tipped me over.
When we piled off the express at Wilkes-Barre I charters a flivver taxi, and after a half hour's drive with a speed maniac who must have thought he was pilotin' a DeHaviland through the clouds we're landed in the middle of this forsaken, one horse dump, consistin' of a double row of punk tenement blocks and a sprinklin' of near-beer joints that was givin' their last gasp.
Jest after that first sprinklin' o' snow, that looked as if 'twould lay all winter. Well, we took the key, an' hung it up inside the clock an' there 'tis now! an' once a week, reg'lar as the day come round, Cyrus went over, an' opened the winders, an' aired out the house." Mrs. Wadleigh sat putting her thimble off and on. "I know all about that," she interposed, "but who's in there now?
It puts me in mind of catching birds by sprinklin' salt on their tails; it's only one horse a man can ride out of half a dozen, arter all. One has no shoes, t'other has a colt, one ain't broke, another has a sore back, while a fifth is so etarnal cunnin', all Cumberland couldn't catch him, till winter drives him up to the barn for food.
Bein' all painted brick red, though, it ain't so convincing but stragglin' over ours is a wistaria that has a few sickly-lookin' blossoms on it every spring and manages to carry a sprinklin' of dusty leaves through the summer. Also there's a nine-by-twelve lawn, that costs a dollar a square foot to keep in shape, I'll bet.
I'm koorius about this, bekaise I've got a receipt for that same that's infallerable, as his Riverence says. Tell him, with my luv, to mix a spoonful o' pepper, an' two o' salt, an' wan o' mustard, an' a glass o' whisky in a taycup, with a sprinklin' o' ginger; fill it up with goat's milk, or ass's, av ye can't git goat's; hait it in a pan, an' drink it as hot as he can hotter, if possible.
And then Sam never could let well enough alone then he went to Bush Elrod, the Babtist tenor, and says he, 'I hear you're goin' to have a new member in your choir. And Bush says, 'Well, if the old idiot ever jines this church, we'll hold his head under the water so long that he won't be able to spile good music agin. And then he give Uncle Jim a hint o' how things was; and when Uncle Jim heard that the Presbyterians was anxious to git shed of him, he found out right away that all them Greek and Hebrew words meant sprinklin' and infant babtism.
"And Louis?" said Maude, "is he disfigured?" "Not a disfigurement," returned John, "but the ole governor, he's a right smart sprinklin' of 'em, one squar' on the tip of his nose, and five or six more on his face." Thus relieved of her immediate fears Maude asked many questions concerning Louis, who she learned had not been very sick.
Also there's quite a sprinklin' of widows, gay and otherwise, and the usual bunch of young folks, addin' lively touches here and there. All city people, you know, playin' at bein' in the country, but insistin' on Broadway food at Broadway prices.
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