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He wouldn't tell me what he meant, but he simply smiled and said you had put a flea in his ear." Jed, himself, could not help smiling faintly. "W-e-e-ll," he drawled, "I didn't use any sweet ile on the job, that's sartin. If he said I pounded it in with a club 'twouldn't have been much exaggeration." "So we owe you that, too," continued Maud.
They kin all swear alibi for each other and sartain sure they didn't all conspire ter steal the money and split it up 'twixt 'em. Haw! haw! haw! 'Twouldn't hardly been wuth dividin' into five parts," he added, his red face all of a grin. "That sounds horrid, Mr. Dexter," said Aunt 'Mira. "Wal, it's practical sense," the expressman said, wagging his head.
Over the scorched, parched ground, stumbling and tripping over sage-brush and sharp-pointed rocks, under the palpitating heat of the desert sun, they ran and scrambled, carrying the quartz lumps in their hats. "See any 'COLOR' in it, pardner?" gasped Cribbens. "I can't, can you? 'Twouldn't be visible nohow, I guess. Hurry up. Lord, we ain't ever going to get to that camp." Finally they arrived.
"I know; but so far as the work is concerned, you girls always do the most of that," cut in Ned. "Work! It isn't the work," almost groaned Ella. "Don't you see, boys? It's the excitement 'twouldn't do for them at all. We must fix it some way. Come, let's go into the waiting-room and talk it up."
"Eh? Well, maybe so. Must have been a mighty rank cigarette to smell up the whole premises like this just goin' past a window. Whew! Gosh! no wonder they say them things are rank pison. I'd sooner smoke skunk-cabbage myself; 'twouldn't smell no worse and 'twould be a dum sight safer. Whew! . . . Well, Helen, there's about the kind of hook I cal'late you need. Fifteen cents 'll let you out on that.
When she got the smoke a-going, she proceeded: "You see, this yere bottom land was all Congress land in them there days, and it sold for a dollar and a quarter, and I says to my ole man, 'Jack, says I, 'Jack, do you git a plenty while you're a-gittin'. Git a plenty while you're a-gittin', says I, 'fer 'twon't never be no cheaper'n 'tis now, and it ha'n't been; I knowed 'twouldn't," and Mrs.
Lawson, I'll stroll around through the sto'e an' see what you've got while you wait on some o' them thet know their own minds. I know mine well enough. What I want is that swingin' ice-pitcher, an' my judgment tells me thet they ain't a more suitable present in yo' sto'e for a settled man thet has built hisself a residence an' furnished it complete the way he has, but of co'se 'twouldn't never do.
"An' so the day pore Jinny took it upon herself to lay me acrost her lap an' punish me in the presence of sech ill-mannered persons ez has seen fit to make a joke of it though I don't see where the fun comes in well, that day she settled the hash for number two so fur ez this town goes. "No, 'twouldn't never do in the world! Even ef she never throwed it up to me, I'd be suspicious.
But he's kind of good he give me half a fish, once, when there warn't enough for two; and lots of times he's kind of stood by me when I was out of luck." "Well, he's mended kites for me, Huck, and knitted hooks on to my line. I wish we could get him out of there." "My! we couldn't get him out, Tom. And besides, 'twouldn't do any good; they'd ketch him again." "Yes so they would.
"I know," said Polly; "that's right, you can have as much bread as you want to; but what you been doing with the pail?" "Nothing," said Joel; "'twouldn't hangup, that's all." "And you've been bumping it," said Polly; "oh! Joel, how could you! You might have broken it; then what would mamsie say?" "I didn't," said Joel, stoutly, with his hands in his pockets, "bump it worse'n Davie, so there!"
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