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From the remotest beginning of things for the Southwest, Canaan had been a "gre't taown." From the beginning she had been the county seat, and from the beginning there had poured through her one long street, with its two or three short tributaries, the whole volume of business of Tigmore County; the strawberries, the chickens, the ginseng.
And that ain't all," continued the skipper, looking around and speaking low. "Ye might not think it, for he's master-modest, but Sam's got larn-in' that there ain't many in aonr taown kin grapple with. Yaou oughter see his lib'ry. A full set o' the records of Congress from 1847 up to 1861; and he'd have had 'em all, only he jined the navy and couldn't keep 'em up.
"Ye see, Perez," said Israel, at last getting to the point, "we callate yew mout dew suthin to kinder stop em ef ye'd take a holt. Abner 'l hear ter ye, an all on em would. I don' see's nobody else in taown kin dew nothin. Ezry an me wuz a talkin baout ye overt' the mill, an Ezry says, 'Le's gwover ter see him. I says, 'Git right inter my cart, an we'll go, an so here we be."
After leaving the bank Frank said: "I have some business of my own to look after now, and I need a witness. One of you might come along with me." They both volunteered, but he explained that both were not needed, although they might come if they chose. Mulloy insisted on accompanying him. "Waal, then, by hemlock," said Gallup, "I'll kinder ramble raound over taown and see the sights.
Abner has grown an inch and broadened proportionally, since Squire Woodbridge made him file leader of the minute men by virtue of his six feet three, and as he stands with his back to the bar, resting his elbows on it, the room would not be high enough for his head, but that he stands between the cross-beams. "I s'pose Meshech's fam'ly 'll hev to go ontew the taown," observed Israel Goodrich.
"The boys has got the oven fixed for roastin' him, and the band gits in on the mornin' train, failin' accidents, and the dec'rations is up in the taown hall 'n' now we kin git ready for a week of stiddy rain." "They's wuss things than rain," said Scattergood, "though at the minnit I don't call to mind what they be."
"Oh! he was up to Metropolisville las' week. He a'n't so much of a singster as he wus. Gone to spekilatin'. The St. Paul and Big Gun River Valley Railroad is a-goin' t' his taown." Here the Superior Being stopped talking, and waited to be questioned. "Laid off a town, then, has he?" "Couldn' help hisself.
Ephraim began the stanza over again, roaring it louder than before, if possible: "Yankee Dewdle came to taown 'Long with Cap'n Goodwin " "Sir!" cried Lieutenant Gordan. "Git aout!" snorted the boy from Vermont. "I'm here ter sing, an' I'm goin' ter fill ther bill, by gum!" Then he began at the first of the stanza, and howled straight through it, for all that the lieutenant spoke to him twice.
Jap Norris told us so on our way home from school." The father's kindly eyes rested upon them with an indulgent twinkle in their depths. "Waal, naow, if there's a bit o' news in this hull taown thet you younkers don't pick up, I'd like to find it! Yes, ef Jap Norris said so, I s'pose it's true; he oughter know, bein' as his fayther's the cap'n.
The taown line between East Ketchem and West Ketchem runs right through the middle of this island." A gaping silence followed this horrible pronouncement. "We eh we are just camping here, pending " began Scoutmaster Ned. "It ain't no question uv pendin'," said Mr. Birchel Rodney. "The ordinance of the village of East Ketchem says that every minor " "We're not miners, we're scouts!"
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