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After he had made up his opinion he smiles into my eyes an' sez, "I like your face." "You soothe me," sez I. "I was just thinkin' o' havin' it remodelled; but now I'll leave it just as it is." Well, he laughs an' slaps me on the back an' sez, "I like your style. Want to take a ride?" "What on?" sez I, for he seemed purty blocky an' fat-legged for a ridin' man.
The incomparable "Galleon" had also been supplied with fishing tackle, and in a short time they caught a splendid supply of black bass and perch, which proved to be very fine and toothsome. As their boat floated back from the smaller stream into the Mississippi, Shif'less Sol heaved a deep sigh. "What's the matter, Sol?" asked Paul. "I wuz thinkin' o' Christopher Columbus," replied Shif'less Sol.
I been thinkin' about you, and should a-been here 'fore this to see after your affairs, on'y I had to go over to Colonel Mervin's to give one of his horses a draught, and then to stop at the colored, people's meetin' house to lead the exercises, and afterwards to call at the Miss Worthses to mend Miss Hannah's loom and put a few new spokes in Miss Nora's wheel.
"I'm thinkin'," he said once, stopping with a dish in the air, "what a deuce of a noise there will be when the vaccination doctor comes around this mornin'. In a week every one of us will be nursin' a sore arm or walkin' on one leg, beggin' your pardon, miss.
Ef there's any thin' wrong about a man's feelin' so about himself and them God give him, God's to blame for it himself; but seein' it's the same feelin' that makes folks keep 'emselves strait in all other matters, I'll keep on thinkin' it's right." "But the preveleges of the Gospel, George," remonstrated the Deacon. "Don't you s'pose I know what they're wuth?" continued the carpenter.
No one suspected who he was, an' so he used to come an' go in a most mysterious manner, to their way of thinkin'." "What did he call himself?" Reynolds asked. "I'll come to that later, young man," and Samson slyly tipped him a warning wink. "We'll jist call him Redmond fer the present. He sartinly did have a great time of it, an' no one was the wiser.
"Oh," broke in Emily, "an' don't un really think Bob's t' come? I been wishin' so for un, an' 'twould be grand t' have he come while Bessie's here." "Bessie's thinkin' 'twould too," said Tom, who could not let pass an opportunity to tease his daughter.
Was he thinkin' of home, of his humble cot in the shadow of Ben Lomond? He was not, for he never had a home in the shadow of Ben Lomond. Was he thinkin' sadly of the meanness o' his superior officer who had left one common seegair in his box and had said, 'Tam, go into my quarters and help yourself to the smokes'?"
But with never a pause, For the good of the cause, We'd even consent to an eatless day. "An' we would, too, of course. "An' as far as that's concerned, there's a good many other kinds of 'less days that I'm thinkin' wouldn't hurt none of us. How about a fretless day an' a worryless day? Wouldn't they be great? An' only think what a talkless day'd mean in some households I could mention.
Ye stiff-necked braggart!" bawled the priest. "Out wid y'r nonsense, and what good are y' thinkin' ye'll do ? Stir your stumps, y' stoopid spalpeen!" "Listen," I urged, undisturbed by the tongue-thrashing that stormed about my ears. In the babel of voices I thought I had heard some one call my name. "Run, Rufus!
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