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"But they do die," objected Peggy, who found it difficult to accept the farmer's optimistic view, much as she wished to. "Old age," said Farmer Cole. "That's all. A few scratches like that ain't going to hurt a cur. But I paid through my nose for a blooded colt a few years back, and 'twarn't a week before he cut himself on barbed wire, and bled to death."
"'Twarn't none o' my business, and I told Martha so, and 'tain't none o' my business now, but I'd rather die than tell a lie or scandalize anybody, and so if ye ask me if I saw 'em I'll have to tell ye I did. I don't believe, howsomever, that Miss Jane went away to oblige that good-for-nothin' or that she's ever laid eyes on him since. Lucy is what took her. She's one o' them flyaways.
"Yes you did, an' 'twarn't no lie neither," assented Tode, emphatically; "but, see here, you can tell your mother that I'm agoin' to pay for that little feller's bread an' milk." Dick looked at him curiously. "You goin' to work again?" he questioned. "'Course I am." "Somebody's got your beat." "Who?" Tode stopped short in angry surprise as he asked the question.
"Oh, I figger 'twarn't much," said he with easy unconcern. "The feller who did it was used to mendin' jewelry an' knew just how to set about it, so it didn't put him out of his way none." "Yes," echoed Bob, with a grateful smile toward Willie. "It made him no trouble at all." The two men watched the delicate fingers unfasten the package. "See how nice 'tis," Willie went on.
'Ah-h, dear Baldwin, you have time for the Port Light saloon, but not for your old frien'", and he shakes his old head. 'Please, do not fail, Cap-tan, on this Christmas Eve! he says to me. 'And Mr. Harty also. Come on now. Be good. 'Twarn't him didn't marry you, mind. Come on, Bud and forget it." "All right go ahead."
I kep' climbin' higher an' higher, and the bar kep' a-follerin'. By and by I got so high, that ther tree begun ter bend backwards and for'ards, but ther bar kep' comin' higher and higher. "I saw 'twarn't no use, so I made up my mind ter swing ther tree over ez far ez I could, and drop and try my legs onct more.
'Twarn't no bigger 'n a baby hazelnut, but, sho's yo' born, chillen, dat ring cost ten hundred dollars!" "That was a diamond," said Lilly in an awed voice. "I never expect to have one if I live to be a thousand years old." "Chillen," said Maum' Hepsey, lowering her voice, "why don't you git Miss Nanny to let you open dat trunk in de attic?" "Whose is it, Maum' Hepsey?"
'Twarn't twenty feet from the top o' that tree to the ground, but I even remembered how I stole my sister Jane's rag baby when I couldn't more'n toddle around marm's shanty that's right! an' berried of it in the hog-pen. Every sin that was registered to my account come up before me as plain as the wart on Jim Biggle's nose!" "Oh, Mr. Todd!" cried Ruth. "Falling right on that awful bear?"
"Sorrow seize the ould lawyer for coming down here at all at all," said the cook. "I never knew no good come of thim dry ould bachelors," said Biddy the housemaid; "specially the Englishers." "The two of yez are no better nor simpletons," said Richard, magisterially. "'Twarn't he that done it. The likes of him couldn't do the likes o' that." "And what was it as done it?" said Biddy.
The women both started, with expressions of surprise, alarm, and tender affection, raised by my ghostly looks, and begged me to get back into bed again. I stood fast, bearing on Theresa's shoulder. "What was it?" I asked. "'Twarn't nothin', Miss Daisy, dear!" said the girl. "Hush! don't tell me that," I said. "Tell me what it was tell me what it was.
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