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Updated: May 26, 2025
"But the eggs would be one-day eggs, all the eggs would be one-day eggs, you mustn't forget that," Mrs. Mortimer pointed out. "But that don't butter no toast for my wife an' me," he objected. "An' that's what I've been tryin' to get the hang of, an' now I got it. You talk about theory an' fact. Ten cents higher than top price is a theory to Saxon an' me.
There's a good man, even if you have a cause not to like him; and when I got well acquainted with him I jest 'lowed that nothin' on the place was too good for him, so we brushed up the room right over the sittin' room, and there he sets late in the night and does his work, and sometimes, 'way late, I hear him walkin' up and down, arm in arm with an idea that he's tryin' to get better acquainted with, he says."
You see, a nor'easter rakes right across the mouth of our harbor and drives off any sail tryin' to get in, and one of two things will happen either a ship will be swept out to sea or swept on to Gull P'int. Well, that feller said to Joe Danforth Joe and me were together 'Has there been a wreck? 'No, said Joe, 'I think not, meaning to answer him.
He tells her about the play, the trouble he's had tryin' to fit one special part, and how he's sure she could do it to a T. He asks her to give it a try. "Go on the stage!" says Ruby, her big eyes starin' at him like he'd asked her to jump off the Metropolitan Tower. "No, I don't think I could. I'm going to be a foreign missionary, you know." "A a what?" gasps Oakley. "Missionary!
He says as long as he has a horse and a few books and a couple of sandwiches a day he's all right. Hilary had him up in Number Seven tryin' to find out what he came down for, and Austen told him pretty straight what he didn't tell the Gaylords, either.
"It's true, sir!" "What're you tryin' to give me, anyhow?" demanded the man. "But it's true, sir!" declared Samuel again. "You tell me she was there at dinner?" "Yes, sir!" "Come! Quit your nonsense, boy!" "But she was, sir!" "What do you expect to make out of this, young fellow?" "But she was, sir!"
What's the use o' tryin' to kill the blackguards when it'll do us no manner o' good?" "Mate," said the captain in a low voice, "you talk like a fresh-water sailor. Besides, you are wrong in regard to the cargo being aboard; there's a good quarter of it lying in the woods, and that blackguard chief knows it and won't let me take it off. He defied us to do our worst yesterday."
"Well," she said, "Christmas will be here in two weeks' time. Do you know what Christmas is?" "No," said Willie, "I 'ain't ever see'd one." Miss Elton smiled. "You know who Jesus is?" she asked. "Yes" said Willie. "We talks to 'im every mornin' an' night, Bob an' me; an' we're tryin' to be good." "That's right," said Miss Elton.
"Le' me tell you, shir, tha' you'll do nothin' o' short; I'm qui' cap'le lookin' after thi' ship or any other ship that ever was built; and I won' have you or any other man tryin' take my charac'er away. You go b'low an' leave me 'lone. D'ye hear?"
For a number of the boys had left, and there were long gaps in the line. "Can't something be done to save the barn?" cried Mr. Stimson, who had been rushing back and forth, mainly engaged in carrying out some valuable harness from the blazing structure. "We're tryin' to," replied the constable. "Are all the cattle out?" asked Bert. "Cattle? Land, no; I forgot all about them!" exclaimed the farmer.
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