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"So my neighbor, wanting a mattock, concluded that he would go over and strike till the mattock was done. Accordingly he went over the next day, and worked faithfully. But toward night the blacksmith concluded his iron wouldn't make a mattock but 'twould make a fine ploughshare. "So my neighbor, wanting a ploughshare, agreed that he would go over the next day and strike till that was done.
"I've heard yarns about folks bein' spirited away, but I never took much stock in 'em. And," he added with conviction, "'twould take a pretty husky spirit to handle Laviny if she had her mad up. She Hush! hear that!" The sound of wheels was heard in the lane by the front gate. A vehicle stopped. Then some one called a hurried good night. Mr. Pepper's fear returned. "It's her!" he cried.
Cospetto! but I have half a mind to visit that knave of a Jew, who has got thy golden chain in pledge, and give him a hint of what may be the consequences, should he insist on demanding double the rate of interest we agreed on." "'Twould be Christian justice! but what would become of thy matter of gravity the while, Gino, and of thy haste to enter on its performance?" "Thou sayest truly, girl.
I asked Passon Walden if 'twould be right, for the cow's as valuable to me as ever my wife was when she was alive, if not more, an' he sez quite pleasant-like 'Well no, Mister Thorpe, I think it best not to make any sort of special prayer for the poor beast, but just do all you can for it, and leave the rest to Providence.
"What is the weather going to be, Captain Leezur?" I said, following his gaze skyward. "Wal, I put on my new felts," said he, indicating without any false assumption of modesty those chaste sepulchres enclosing his feet "hopin' 'twould fetch a rain! said I didn't care ef I did spot my new felts ef 'twould only fetch a rain!
But directly that's over the very next day I'll stay here all day, and all night too, to oblige you, since you ask me so very kindly. 'Th-thank ye, that will be very nice! said Uncle Benjy. 'Yes, I knew 'twould relieve ye. And he kindly stroked his uncle's head, the old man expressing his enjoyment at the affectionate token by a death's-head grimace.
"I shouldn't ha' minded the money," Farmer Hartley was saying, even now, "if I'd ha' been savin' it jest to spend or lay by. I shouldn't ha' minded, though 'twould ha' hurt jest the same to hev Simon's son take it, my brother Simon's son, as I allus stood by. But it's hard to let the farm go.
I wish we had some sort of description of those rascals 'twould help a good deal. But you couldn't see what they were like, in the dark, lad, I suppose?" "Oh yes; I saw them down-town and follered them." "Splendid! Describe them describe them, my boy!" "One's the old deaf and dumb Spaniard that's ben around here once or twice, and t'other's a mean-looking, ragged "
Dow and Peggy resented this impertinent remark, but deigned to take no notice of the speaker. "She wouldn't have wore her best clothes to the Centennial, would she?" mildly inquired Peggy, bobbing her head toward the ceiling. "'Twould be a shame to spoil your best things in such a place. An' I don't know of her havin' any money; there's the end o' that."
Con Ryan remarked one day, when the subject was under discussion, "that young O'Meara hadn't actually spoke out before it happint thim. 'Twould ha' made her a dale aisier in her mind now, I wouldn't won'er.
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