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The girl followed his eye. "Dad's a mighty hunter afore the Lord." "What does he do with these skins?" "Trades 'em off for grub and fixin's. But he don't believe in trottin' round in the mud for gold." "Don't you suppose these animals would have preferred it if he had? Gold hunting takes nothing from anybody."
Laura lets me carry her skates, an' I'm glad of it, although I have my hands full already with the lantern, the hockies, and the rest. Hiram Peabody keeps us waitin', for he has overslept himself, an' when he comes trottin' out at last the girls make fun of him all except Sister Mary, an' she sort o' sticks up for Hiram, an' we're all so 'cute we kind o' calc'late we know the reason why.
The ol' man had been trottin' along without a break for a consid'able of a stretch, an' the proposition looked amply sufficient to him, so he sez pleasantly, "Well, now, boys, it wouldn't be a bad way to spend the evenin'. We could make the stakes small an' we could have a right sociable time together." 'Tain't altogether wise to jump hasty at another man's idee of size.
"It's a goat that's got the legs of one side shorter than the legs on the other side, and the only way he can get to the top of a hill is to keep trottin' around and around the hill like a five per cent. grade. He goes a mile to get ten feet higher."
"Well, I'd been doin' a little business there among the folks, and had jist sot off for the river, mounted on Old Clay, arter takin' a glass of Ezra's most particular handsum Jamaiky, and was trottin' off pretty slick, when who should I run agin but Tim Bradley. He is a dreadful ugly, cross-grained critter, as you e'enamost ever seed, when he is about half-shaved.
"Whisht!" said Frayne: "upon my word, I blieve the old Square's comin' to pay tis a visit; does any of yez hear a horse trottin' with a shoe loose?" "I sartinly hear it," observed Andy Morrow. "And I," said Ned himself.
They get all the people in the block to chip in for a celebration decorations, music, ice cream, all that and generally they raise a block service flag. It takes some organizin', though." "How perfectly splendid!" says Vee. "And that is just where you can be useful." So that's how I come to spend that next evenin' trottin' up and down this block in the sixties between Ninth and Amsterdam.
Laura lets me carry her skates, an' I'm glad of it, although I have my hands full already with the lantern, the hockies, and the rest. Hiram Peabody keeps us waitin', for he has overslept himself, an' when he comes trottin' out at last the girls make fun of him, all except Sister Mary, an' she sort o' sticks up for Hiram, an' we're all so 'cute we kind o' calc'late we know the reason why.
"You did just right, Hosy," she said. "There was nothin' else you could do. I never liked that Heathcroft man. And to think of him, engaged to another girl, trottin' around with Frances the way he has. I'D like to talk with him. He'd get a piece of MY mind." "He's all right enough," I admitted grudgingly. "He took my warning in a very good sort, I must say. He has never meant anything serious.
She always had somethin' to say, and it was always the right thing to be said, and in a minute her and the old judge was laughin' like they'd known each other all their lives, and he had the children on his knees trottin' 'em and tellin' 'em about his little girl and boy at home. "Jane Ann said her greens was about done and she started to put on the corn bread, but somethin' held her back.
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