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"Why not?" says I. "Why balk at a little thing like that when you've been doin' so well?" "Oh, but, Torchy," chimes in Marjorie, "you know you could do it so much better!" And what with both of them coaxin', and stuffin' expense money into my pockets, the next thing I know I'm on my way down to where the Boston trains come in, and am campin' outside the gate.
You think you've got things like you want 'em; you peg away for this and you beat around for that, and, just as you're gettin' ready to set down and enjoy yourself, up comes somethin' you warn't a lookin' for and knocks the stuffin' clean out of you.
"Well, Buck, my boy," he went on in a genial voice, "we've had our little ruction, and the best thing we can do is to let it go at that. You've learned your place, and I know mine. Be a good dog and all 'll go well and the goose hang high. Be a bad dog, and I'll whale the stuffin' outa you. Understand?"
Mousie was singing a song down in the kitchen below as she made hot muffins for breakfast. And this is what she sang: "Upstairs in my nice guest room are two Nice little rabbits in bed. As soon as I'm able I'll fix up the table And give them some honey and bread. And then a hot muffin to give them a stuffin', And then they'll be bountifully fed."
'Oh, I know all about it how you protected your friend William with your wounded body Macgregor's hand went to his head. 'I suppose I'm sober, he muttered. 'Wha was stuffin' ye wi' a' this, Aunt Purdie? Aunt Purdie's manner was almost sprightly as she whispered 'Your betrothed! 'Ma what? 'Christina, her own self, told me. So there you are, young man!
The waiter will lay another cover at once. Mr. W. D. will join us at supper, during which function he will enlighten us in regard to the circumstances that gave us the pleasure of his company." "Chewin' de stuffin' out 'n de dictionary, as usual, Boston," said Whistling Dick; "but t'anks all de same for de invitashun. I guess I finds meself here about de same way as yous guys.
"Well, sah, I was scared to def, but I tuk dat goose an' laid him wid de cut side down on de bottom of de pan 'fo' de cook got back, put some dressin' an' stuffin' ober him, an' shet de stove do'. Den I tuk de sweet potatoes an' de hominy an' put 'em on de table, an' den I went back in de kitchen to git de baked ham. I put on de ham an' some mo' dishes, an' marsa says, lookin' up:
"What's that you're stuffing into your pocket, Tom?" she said, turning her eagle eyes again on Tom. "A bit paper, aunt, that's all." "People don't laugh at common bits o' paper, nor go stuffin' em into pockets like that. Hand it over." "I'd rather not, Aunt Hepsy," said the boy. "I rather you would," was her dry retort. "Out with it." "It's mine, Aunt Hepsy, and you wouldn't care to see it."
"On the table?" said his mother. "Yes. In a cup of tea. Gettin' tannin. You know. For stuffin'. I was puttin' him in tannin' first. Uncle George grew pale. In frozen silence he put a spoon into his cup and investigated the contents. In still more frozen silence Mrs. Brown and William watched. That moment held all the cumulative horror of a Greek tragedy.
"We might be able to impress some young limb of the law, in the shape of a lawyer, into the service, who no doubt might, after a brief study of Professor John Phinn's vocabulary of Shakespeare, be willing to go on and tell who Richard and Richmond were in their day, and how Richard got the stuffin' knocked out of him because he was crooked and a tyrant and a monopolist.
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