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"Sure's I'm alive you be," the mole answered; "yer uncle'll tell it you with all de lawyer's reasons to-morrow morning as sure's sure. Come along, den. Dere ain't no time to lose." So Dickie went down on his hands and knees, and crept down the mole tunnel of soft, sweet-smelling earth, and then along, and then up and there they were in the courtyard. There, too, were Edred and Elfrida.
You can start just as good a business here as you could at Ellisville, and it's a heap quieter here. Now, I want some one to start just such a eatin' place somewheres along here, and if you'll do that, you'll make a stake here in less'n two years, sure's you're born." Sam's conviction gave him eloquence.
Oh, he'll be here, course o' the evenin'." "D' you s'pose he's round here now?" Eddie got a little closer to his brother. "I wouldn't wonder. Yes, sir. There he goes now. Sure's you're alive." "Where?" "Right over yan. Aw, you don't look. See? There he is. Aw! you're too slow. Didn't you see him? Now the next time I tell you Look, look! There! He run right acrost the floor an' into the closet.
"Why!" he said slowly, "there are three people in that buggy. A man and " "And two women; that's what I thought. Dum idiots comin' over to picnic and spend the day, sure's taxes. And they'll want to be showed round the lights and everywheres, and they'll ask more'n forty million questions. Consarn the luck!" Brown looked troubled. He had no desire to meet strangers.
'Oh! he returned, interrupting the visitor, 'I'm reformed, and I've made up my mind to serve my great Redeemer as long as he lets me live. I'll never go back on Him, true as you live. I'm just a goin' to let the world know that I'm a second Apostle Paul there ain't a goin' to be anybody beat me in this line of business, sure's my name is John Allen.
"And for you, Mistress Fin'lay, I would have you please to remember that this house, as far at least as you are concerned, is mine, although I am but the factor, and not the marquis; and if you don't keep that unruly tongue of yours a little quieter in your head, I'll set you in the street the next quarter day but one, as sure's ever you gutted a herring, and then you may bid goodbye to Portlossie, for there's not a house, as you very well know, in all the Seaton, that belongs to another than her ladyship."
"Pine," said he, "s'pose we don't come to grass and water?" "Most likely we will before mornin', or before noon anyhow. If we don't, we must go on till we do." "Kill all the mules?" "They'll all die if we don't, sure's my name's Pine Yellow Pine." "They can't stand it " "They can stand anything but starvation. Did you ever try giving up water?" "No; did you?" "Well, I did.
You're a-comin' straight home with your own Katy. Do you want your aunt a-fallin' down in one of her heart-spells, and her so well and happy for the first time sence I come? She'll have one sure's you're born if you ain't there for your supper and me after makin' shepherd's pie!" Elsie paled. "Oh, Katy, I can't go back, honestly I can't, but you'll make it right with them, won't you?
"I thought it was a big black burglar," Flossie said, her voice still shaking from the fright. "I thought it was a policeman," faltered Sandy. "'Cause they always bang things like that." "And I thought, sure's yo' life, it was a real ghost," laughed Dinah. "'Cause de clock jest struck fer de ghost hour. Ha! ha! dat was suah a musicanious rat."
That done, they went home to breakfast, feeling that they had made a good morning's work of it, but wondering what would be the end and result of it all. "Ten years, I guess," said Ham. "In State prison?" "Yes. Breaking stone. He'll get his board free, but it'll be total abstinence for him. I wonder what took him on board 'The Swallow," "I know, the jug!" "That's it, sure's you live.
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