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Updated: June 28, 2025
"I don't want to laugh," said old Tom, pettishly. Nevertheless, he seemed to be visibly cooling. "If you ain't in here to make money," he added to Austen, "I don't care how long you stay." "Say, Austen," said young Tom, "do you remember the time we covered the old man with shavings at the mills in Avalon, and how he chased us with a two-by-four scantling?"
"You'd think with all the big comf'table bedrooms to choose from he wouldn't pick out this two-by-four, would you? But he did, probably because nobody else would. He was a contrary old rooster, and odd as Dick's hat-band." Thankful was listening, although not to their guide's remarks.
"That ain't the answer," says I. "Would it make you feel different about sellin' that land?" "Oh, I say, you know!" protests T. Waldo, startin' to stiffen up. For a two-by-four he lugs around a lot of cranky whims, and it looked like this was one of his pets. There's quite a mulish streak in him, too. "All right," says I, startin' towards the basement stairs. "Settle it your own way."
She was only a beautiful peacock preening her feathers and sighing for homage. She was she is the essence of self from the top of her head to her shoes. Her feelings, her wants, her wishes, her whims, her two-by-four outlook, nothing else counted. She couldn't comprehend anything outside of herself.
There were frozen foods and soft drinks as well as dairy products among their supplies, packed in dry ice in the Water Witch's food locker; the refrigerator would be cold enough for the supplies by the time the boat arrived. For bathing in fresh water there was an outdoor shower, a shower head rigged to a five-gallon drum and supported on a frame of two-by-four wooden members.
"I don't want to laugh," said old Tom, pettishly. Nevertheless, he seemed to be visibly cooling. "If you ain't in here to make money," he added to Austen, "I don't care how long you stay." "Say, Austen," said young Tom, "do you remember the time we covered the old man with shavings at the mills in Avalon, and how he chased us with a two-by-four scantling?"
I reckon the boys are grateful to me for scattering my lead so promiscuous." "I heard one say he would like to lam your haid tenderly," murmured McWilliams. "With a two-by-four, I suppose," laughed Bannister. "Shouldn't wonder.
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