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Dudley had not spoken so positively. Mr. Tinkham was set a-thinking. Why wouldn't the widow sell? Why had she changed her mind since yesterday? Why did Mr. Beal, the lawyer, not appear at the consultation? All these questions the shrewd little Tinkham asked himself, and all these questions he asked of Francis Gray that evening. "They've got wind of something," said Mr. Tinkham to Mr.
"Where is it?" asked Tinkham. "It's in Kentucky, five miles back of Port William. I took it last week in a trade, and I haven't yet made up my mind what to do with it." "That's the very thing," said Tinkham, with his little face drawn to a point, "the very thing. Mrs. Dudley's son came home from Port William yesterday, where he has been at school. They've heard of that land, I'm afraid; for Mrs.
Dudley proceeded to tell him that she had been offered a hundred and twenty dollars for her claim against Gray. "Who offered it?" asked Jack. "Mr. Tinkham, Gray's agent. Maybe Gray is buying up his own debts, feeling tired of holding property in somebody else's name." "A hundred and twenty dollars for a thousand! The rascal! I wouldn't take it," broke out Jack, impetuously.
I was glad to go, and marched home with the air of a conqueror, going to the keeping-room where mother sat with a basket of sewing. I saw Temperance Tinkham, the help, a maiden of thirty, laying the table for supper.
"Perhaps not, but we've concluded to wait," said Mrs. Dudley. "We can't do much worse if we get nothing at all." After a moment's reflection, Mr. Tinkham said: "I'll do a little better by you, Mrs. Dudley. I'll give you a hundred and fifty. That's the very best I can do." "I will not sell the claim at present," said Mrs. Dudley. "It is of no use to offer." It would have been better if Mrs.
A work just from the press, "California Men and Events" by Mr. G. H. Tinkham, affords valuable testimony to the necessity and value of King's mission as patriotic leader: "At a time when some Union men were paralyzed with dread, and others undecided which way to turn, Thomas Starr King traveled over the state bolstering up the weak-hearted, and urging loyal men to stand firmly for the Union.
The jubilee bonfires were scarcely ashes before Tired Tinkham delivered at the corner grocery what he called his inaugural address. 'I cal'late I know why I wuz 'lected; he said. 'T' loaf 'n' let ye loaf. I cal'late ye've mistook suthin'. Ye'll work. And work Noah's Basin did as it had never worked before." Shelby noted that the anecdote won even a thin-lipped grin from the hostile camp.
It happened in the early days of Noah's Basin, when that interesting village contained perhaps a score less people than walk its changeless streets to-day. Tired Tinkham was the local Rip Van Winkle the children's friend and labor's foe. No one could whittle green willow whistles in the springtime like Tired Tinkham, or fashion bows and arrows with such fascinating skill.
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