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He tugged and pulled, but could get only the top and bottom hooks unclasped; the middle ones refused to budge. "I can't get these-here hooks to come loose," Billy said. Jimmy put his short, fat arms around him and tried his hand, but with no better success. The stays were such a snug fit that the hooks seemed glued.
Wears long curls like a girl and don't want to never get his clean clo'es dirty." "I think he's a beautiful little boy," championed Lina. "Call him over here, Jimmy." "Naw, I don't want to. You all'll like him a heap better over there; he's one o' these-here kids what the furder you get 'way from 'em, the better you like 'em." "He sho' do look lonesome," said Billy; "'vite him over, Jimmy."
She could not distinguish their eyes. They were a blurry theater-audience before which she self-consciously enacted the comedy of being the Clever Little Bride of Doc Kennicott: "These-here celebrated Open Spaces, that's what I'm going out for. I'll never read anything but the sporting-page again. Will converted me on our Colorado trip.
The little boy flooded his plate with syrup. "These-here 'lasses sho' is " he began, but instantly remembering that he must be more particular in his speech, he stammered out: "These-here sho' is am are a nice messer 'lasses. I ain't never eat sech a good bait.
"Please come on," begged Billy, dropping the patronizing manner that he had assumed, in hope of inducing his chum to share his martyrdom. "You know Aunt Minerva'd die in her tracks 'fore she'd read Uncle Remus. You'll like these-here tales 'nother sight better anyway. I'll give you my stoney if you'll come." "Naw; you ain't going to get me in no such box as that.
I should suppose if he is public-spirited his being in the neighborhood would be a great advantage to the village." "Yus, if," returned the grocer, scornfully. "The bark on a tree ain't a circumstance to him. Queer now, ain't it?" he went on argumentatively. "Carder's a rich man, and so many o' these-here rich men, they act as if they wasn't ever goin' to die.
"Oh, 'cause," she said, starting up the stairs again by an entirely novel and original method of her own " 'cause Uncle Tomps ner Aunt 'Lizabeth don't live here; and when they ever come here to git their dinners, like they will ef you don't watch out, w'y, then I kin slip out here on these-here stairs and play like I was climbin' up to the Good World where my mother is that's why!"
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