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Updated: June 4, 2025
Aunt larfed waal, an' told me tew try ag'in; so a couple er nights arfter, I spruced up, an' went over to Car'line Miles's; she was as smart as old cheese, an' waal off in tew the barg'in. I was just as sure she'd hev me, as I be that I'm gittin' the rewmatiz a settin' in this ma'sh.
Two days after parting in a lone island from the girl he had so disinterestedly loved he met in Piccadilly his friend Somers, wonderfully spruced up, and hastening along with a preoccupied face. 'My dear fellow, said Somers, 'what do you think! I was charged not to tell you, but, hang it! I may just as well make a clean breast of it now as later.
A fire was burning in the old-fashioned open fireplace, and it was plain that Mrs. Cobb had "spruced things up" to receive company. "Two of us can git behind the organ in the corner here," said Tad. "The other feller can hide under the sofa." As the sofa was a long, old-fashioned affair, and any one hidden beneath it could command a view of the entire room, Frank decided to conceal himself there.
He had spruced up a little, though the four dollars he had got from Dinville the night before was not sufficient for new clothes. "Say," he said, the minute he entered the office, "Mr. Dinville, I've got a corker!" "So?" queried the reporter, lighting a cigar and putting his feet on the desk in comfortable attitude for listening. "Fire away!"
Archibald; but before he reached her he was met by the bishop, who hurried towards him. "I shall be obliged to surrender my post to you," he said, "which will be greatly to the lady's satisfaction, I imagine, for I must appear a poor attendant after you." "Goin' to leave us?" said Matlack. "You look quite spruced up." The bishop smiled.
And I feel the need of being spruced up a good deal myself this morning, Ida May," he continued. "D'you see how straggly my hair is gettin'? Do you think you could trim it a mite?" "Why, of course I can, Uncle Ira," she rejoined cheerfully. "I swan! You be a likely gal, Ida May," said the old man, both reflectively and gratefully. "What would Prue and me do without you?
Hippy, however, knew the lumberjack tribe by this time knew their peculiar ways and told the girls to go ahead with their plans. Darkness had settled over the Big North Woods when Hippy rallied his flock for the party, each girl spruced up for the occasion, Emma Dean's face wreathed in smiles in anticipation of the good time that was in prospect.
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