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She looked about her as if she owned the room, the old china, and the house. "That's real good of you, Jared," she said movingly. "I sha'n't ever forget it. But you see for yourself. I don't want for nothin'." "I guess we should ha' thought 'twas queer, when you went trottin' by to school," he said irrelevantly, "if anybody'd told you you'd reign over the old Knowles house."
"That's not all, is it?" asked Thorn, taking a fatherly interest in the younger man's love passages. "Not quite. 'Fore long, Joe whistled, and as I always take short cuts everywhar, I put in at the back-door, jest as Kitty come trottin' out of the pantry with a big berry-pie in her hand.
"Let us return simply but grandly to our inalienable rights the right o' freedom on these yere verdant hills, an' no invijjus distinctions o' track an' pedigree:" "What in stables 'jer call an invijjus distinction?" said the Deacon, stiffly. "Fer one thing, bein' a bloated, pampered trotter jest because you happen to be raised that way, an' couldn't no more help trottin' than eatin'."
Calvin Bangs had a white mare one time and the critter had a habit of runnin' away. Once his wife, Hannah J., was in the buggy all by herself, over to the Ostable Fair, Calvin havin' got out to buy some peanuts or somethin'. The mare got scared of the noise and crowd and bolted. As luck would have it, she went right through the fence and out onto the trottin' track.
"Who's D-D-Dave Corson?" asked the doctor. "Quaker preacher. Young feller 'bout twenty years old." "Can he t-t-talk?" "Talk! He kin talk a mule into a trottin' hoss in less'n three minutes." "He's my man!" exclaimed the doctor, at which the crowd laughed again.
"I didn't call nobody, sir, to help me, 'cause nobody couldn't do no good, and I was afeared of wakin' the gentlemen and ladies, a trottin' up and downstairs," continued Phillis, bent upon exculpating herself from all blame in the affair, and mistaking his momentary pensiveness for displeasure. "You were quite right, old lady!
'Why, says Uncle Jim, 'there's a dozen or more good-lookin' saddle-horses out yonder outside the big gate, and you can have your pick. So Sam started off, and the next thing him and the man from Simpson was trottin' around the ring. Us Goshen people kind o' kept together when we set down in the amp'itheater. Every time Sam'd go past us, we'd all holler 'hurrah! for him.
"Do ye know anythin' about trotters?" said the Deacon. "I've seen 'em trot. That was enough for me. I don't want to know any more. Trottin' 's immoral." "Waal, I'll tell you this much. They don't bloat, an' they don't pamp much. I don't hold out to be no trotter myself, though I am free to say I had hopes that way onct.
Jack laughed as he closed the door. Echo reseated herself at the piano, fingering the keys. "How are you getting on with Bud?" she asked the younger girl. "We don't get on a little bit," she snapped. "Bud never seems to collect much revenue an' we just keep trottin' slow like wish I was married and had a home of my own." "Aren't you happy with father and mother?"
"A-a-ah!" protested the baker, who was a Burnsomaniac, "there's waur than a walk by the bank o' a bonny burn. Ye ken what Mossgiel said: 'The Muse nae poet ever fand her, Till by himsel' he learned to wander, Adown some trottin' burn's meander, And no thick lang; Oh sweet to muse and pensive ponder A heartfelt sang." Poetical quotations, however, made the Provost uncomfortable.
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