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Pretty soon I heard one of 'em holler: "'Ahoy! Is the Captain aboard? "'He is, I said, steppin' out. 'Who wants him? "'Colonel Throckmorton, he says, 'and Major Severn. "'Come aboard, gentlemen, I says. "So down they come, the Colonel first, one foot at a time touchin' the ladder, the Major following.
That was natural and did them credit. Yes, they wanted to know all about Hartley; where he worked; what he did, and what were his off hours. It was almost touchin' to see how eager they was for all the details. Havin' been abroad so long, and among foreigners, and in strange places, I expect Hartley looked like home to 'em.
For myse'f, I'm not freighted to the gyards with details touchin' on my grandfather; he passes in his chips when mebby I'm ten years old, an' the only things about him I'm shore of as a child, is that he's the greatest man on earth an' owns all the land south of the Ohio river.
She's studied too hard and it's touchin' her brain." "No, sir, it isn't. It isn't truly. I did cry about you because I didn't like to hear you talk so. And I was so sorry to have you come there." "You WAS!" "Yes, sir. Other children's folks don't come when they're bad. And I kept feeling so sort of ashamed of you." "Ashamed of ME?" Bos'n nodded vigorously. "Yes, sir.
Cow barns, fences, chicken houses," says I. "Anything around the place that will stand another coat." "You don't mean he does it himself?" says Garvey. "Sure he does," says I. "Gets on an old pair of overalls and jumper and goes to it like he belonged to the union. Last time I was up there he had all the blinds off one side of the house and was touchin' 'em up. Mrs.
When father died he left me, so he thought, with enough income to get along on. It wasn't much fact is, it was mighty little but we could and did get along on it, Primmie and I, without touchin' my principal. But then came the war and ever since livin' costs have been goin' up and up and up. Now my income is the same as it was, but what it will buy is less than half.
'Remember Secretary's clerk, says he, a touchin' of his hat, 'give him a little tip of thirty pound sterling, your honour. Well, colonist had a drop of Yankee blood in him, which was about one third molasses, and, of course, one third more of a man than they commonly is, and so he jist ups and says, 'I'll see you and your clerk to Jericho beyond Jordan fust. The office ain't worth the fee.
It's only about first drink time in the evenin', which, as a season, is prematoor for faro-bank. It's Dave Tutt who brings up the matter with some remarks he makes touchin' the crazy-hoss conduct of a party who works over to the stage company's corral. This hoss- hustler is that eccentric he's ediotic, an' is known as 'Locoed Charlie. It's him who final falls a prey to ants that time.
I was afore him, and when I heard the report, an' turned round, there he lay, shot an' bleedin'. I thought it mightn't signify, but on lookin' at him closely, I found him quite dead. I then ran home, never touchin' the gun at all, till his family and the neighbors 'ud see him.
Poor Lizzie got all worked up; she took on and cried like a baby when we saw him go off chucklin' and you stayed out so long. She can't bear the thought o' touchin' 'em. And then when you come in and spoke about the selec'men, we guessed we was all wrong. Perhaps Lizzie feels bad about that now. I own I had hard feelin's toward you myself, John."
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