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For an instant Raish's smoothness deserted him. His temper flared. "Because the cussed fools won't sell it to me," he snapped. "That is, they ain't said they'd sell yet. Perhaps they're prejudiced against me, I don't know. Maybe they will sell to you; you and they seem to be thicker'n thieves. Er that is, of course, you understand I don't mean Oh, well, you know what I mean, Perfessor.
"Roscoe," she said, sharply, "can he do it?" "Do it?" I repeated. "What do you mean?" "Can he give you your walkin' papers at that bank? Oh, I heard him! I tried not to, but he hollered so I couldn't help it. That kitchen door ain't much thicker'n a sheet of paper, anyhow. Can he do it?" "I guess so. He seems to be boss of that institution."
Guy Little has been tellin' me the same sort of thing." "There ain't much to tell," answered Blenham. "That is, that a man couldn't guess without bein' told. He's your gran'son; even with a scrap on between you an' him, still blood is thicker'n water an' some day, maybe, you'll pass on to him all you got. Leastways, there's a chance, an' also he oughta fit pretty snug in a girl's eye.
"I guess all our old folks was fighters when it comes to that. It come natural to 'em, an' dog-gone it, they just had to fight or they'd never come through." "What are you two talkin' about?" Mary broke in upon them. "They're thicker'n mush in no time," Bert girded. "You'd think they'd known each other a week already." "Oh, we knew each other longer than that," Saxon returned.
It was thicker'n burgoo, an' when I got the other side o' this pint, I heard a feller sing out from this side that he was aground, an' he warned me off, an' when I got here I couldn't see him, an' pretty soon he begun shoutin' from the other side. I tell yer I thought I'd got 'em again, or something, an' I "
"Did you ever notice, Shorty," said Si, speculatively, as he looked over the tin cup of cool water he was sipping, "how long and straight and string-like the cat-brier grows down here in this country? You see 25 or 30 feet of it at times no thicker'n wooltwine. Now, there's a piece layin' right over there, on t'other side o' the branch, more'n a rod long, and no thicker'n a rye straw."
Ef you must have 'em, why let me rec-ommend Bost'n. Drove hack there wunst, myself." Then after a pause he proceeded with the deliberation of a judge: "It's the best village I ever lay eyes on fer idees, is Bost'n. Thicker'n hops! Grow single and in bunches. Have s'cieties there fer idees. Used to make money outen the fellows with idees, cartin 'em round to anniversaries and sich.
"No; nor like mackerel when ye get a full seine-haul," responded the storekeeper, unruffled, "but thicker'n you'd want sand fleas to be if the fleas measured up to the size of orang-outangs." Lawford Tapp burst into open laughter. "They can't catch you, can they, Cap'n Abe?" he said.
You know dat red-head freckled-face yaller gal dat use to sew for Mis' Ann Powers always wear a sailor hat wid a waist on her no thicker'n my wris' an' a hitch in her walk eve'y time she pass a man? Dat's de gal. She stole Wash f'om me an' she's welcome to 'im. Any 'oman is welcome to any man she kin git f'om me. Dat's my principle.
But then Matilda she always was soft-hearted, and mebbe now she might find a hole in her humble home where her poor old brother could stay the short time he's got in this world of trouble and sorrow. I could do with less to eat if I had to, gents; and blood was always thicker'n water with Matilda." Thad felt indignant.
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