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Geary patted her arm and hummed softly an old hymn-tune, and poor little Marjorie dropped asleep almost at once. "What do you make of it, Father?" asked the old woman, returning to the kitchen. "She run away from her home fer some reason. Said she hadn't got no home. Stepmother, I shouldn't wonder. We'll find out to-morrow, an' I'll tote her back." "Mebbe there'll be a reward." "Mebbe so.
Your place is in the parlor of some rich man's house, leaning back in a rocking-chair, with a good carpet under foot." "That's the song mother and Aunt Mandy sing from morning to night," the girl smiled, showing her perfect teeth. "They want me to quit work, and get some man to tote my load.
If you don't want us to cheer, then what shall we do?" demanded big Walsh. "We'll work!" Tom retorted energetically. "We'll work as we never did before. We'll keep things moving every minute of the time. Back with you into the shaft and out into the tunnel! You hoist-men stand by for a big performance with the tub. Jennison, you may stay up from below and tote specimens for me.
I would be an awful cad if I did. But well, you know as well as I do that, good soul as Mandy is, she is in many ways impossible." "Do I?" Again the joyous laugh pealed out. "Well, well, come back and see." And waving her hand she stood to watch them down the trail. "Jolly little girl," said the Inspector, as they turned from the railway tote road down the coulee into the Kootenay trail.
"What's the good of a head full of book learnin' with a poah puny body that kaint tote it around?" Somehow, Uncle Billy's solemn declaration, "he have fought a good fight," associated this colored preacher, in John Jay's simple little mind, with soldiers and fierce battles and a great victory.
"I reckon I ought to feel right much set up and biggitty over that, Hardwick," smiled the veteran spoilsman, relapsing, as he did now and then, into the speech of his Southern boyhood. And then half-quizzically: "Are you tolerably well satisfied that you've got around to the place where you are willing to tote fair with me?
This popular clamor served to recall the tavernkeeper to a sense of duty. "Ma'am, like I should tote you, or will you walk?" he inquired, and reaching out his hand took hold of Betty. "I'll walk," said the girl quickly, shrinking from the contact. "Keep close at my heels. Bunker, you tuck along after her with the boy." "What about this nigger?" asked the fourth man.
Why, says I, 'you've got a necktie on; and you speak a senseless kind of indoor drivel that reminds me of a storekeeper or a lady. You look to me like you might tote an umbrella and wear suspenders, and go home of nights. "'The little woman, says Perry, 'has made some improvements, I believe. You can't understand, Buck. I haven't been away from the house at night since we was married.
'Will you do a favor for me? "Now Mr. Meadow Mouse felt very much flattered, and as he was a very obliging fellow anyway, he promptly said he would. "'All right, said Mr. Wharf Rat. 'I'm going to get you to tote this bag down the Crooked Little Path to the hollow chestnut tree. I've got an errand back on top of the hill. "So Mr.
Josh had arranged to "tote" a coffee pot along, together with a supply of the ground bean; while Landy had a capacious frying-pan fastened to his pack, which the others just knew would be frequently tripping him up, and making all sorts of noises when they wanted to steal silently along.
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