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Immediately Maum Winnie would appear, the very picture of dignified astonishment, "Now, Miss Nelly, ain't you 'shame'? Yer pore mar she bin had a mity onrestless night, an' jes' as she 'bout to ketch a nap o' sleep, yere you bin start all dis 'fusion. Now, her eye dun pop wide open, an' she gwine straight to studyin' agin."
Nothing old-timey about this young female that's studyin' out Mrs. Bagstock's letter. Barrin' the floppy cap, she's costumed zippy enough in what I should judge was a last fall's tango dress. As she reads she yanks gum industrious. "Say," she breaks out, "this is all Dutch to me. Who's bein' called down, anyway?" "We are," says I. "The Corrugated Trust. I'm private sec. there.
Th' sense of studyin' th' flea, mam, I can understand, that bein' th' way all professors does these days, but 't is not human t' spend time givin' a flea a college education. Th' man that descinds t' be tutor t' a flea, and t' teach it all th' accomplishments, from readin' and writin' t' arithmetic and football, mebby, is peculiar.
"Yas, sir, she comes jes' lak me an' Carline, an' wanders roun' de house an' de garden, an' sets in de ole barrel hammock, studyin' to herself." "And Mike, what became of him?" Uncle Jimpson looked at him in surprise, "How'd you know about Mike, Mister?" "Didn't you speak of him a while ago; wasn't he the dog?" "Yas, sir. He's our dog.
Peggy hastily explained the accident, and then, as she saw no harm in doing so, she gave Bud a hasty sketch of the events leading up to their being marooned on the alkali. "So you're after that ornery varmint, Red Bill, are yer?" remarked Bud as she concluded; "wa-al I'll do all in my power to help you. I've bin a studyin' that thar leak while you was a talkite.
Even Sally" he caught himself, then went on doggedly "even Sally kain't see how a man kin keer about things like skies and the color of the hills, ner the way ther sunset splashes the sky clean acrost its aidge, ner how the sunrise comes outen the dark like a gal a-blushin'. They 'lows thet a man had ought ter be studyin' 'bout other things."
Their consultation was interrupted by the arrival of Nickey, armed with a Boy Scouts' "Manual." "Gee! Mr. Maxwell: Uncle Jonathan Jackson's all right; I'll never do another thing to guy him. He's loaned us his tent for our Boy Scouts' corpse, and I've been studyin' out how to pitch it proper, so I can show the kids the ropes; but " "Donald!" cried Betty.
"Pat," said his mother the next morning at breakfast, "what's that book you used to be studyin' that larns you to talk roight?" "Grammar, mother." "Well, then, your studyin' has done you small good, for you talk pretty much the way I do mysilf, and niver a bit of that book did I be larnin' in my loife. It don't make a bit of difference what you know, if you don't go and do what you know.
"But, as Oi was sayin', the whiles Miss Fanny was tryin' by nine times six is forty-seven an' traject'ry an' muzzle v'locity an' fours right an' holler squares to wish the Boh offen the hilltop so he could march us through the pass accordin' to Hoyle, Fronte McKim was off ahead among the rocks, layin' on his belly behint a ant-hill studyin' the hillside through his spyglass.
"He's stayed here, studyin' it, a long time, ain't he?" "Yes," Miss Alathea answered. "When he once reached here he seemed to find new beauties in the country every day. He wrote us the most glowing letters of it, and these letters and and other things, decided me to come and see him and the property he is so fond of.
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