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Here I wuz a-walkin' right through their country villages with my faithful pardner by my side, and my old cotton umbrell in my hand, a-seemin' to anchor me to the present while I floated off into strange realms. All these different countries show their native industries. We went into the Japanese Village, under a high arch, all fixed off with towers, and wreaths, and swords dretful ornimental.
Wiggs, "I didn't die; you mark my words, it ain't never no use puttin' up yer umbrell' till it rains!" Lucy laughed. "Well, you certainly practise what you preach." "Not always," said Mrs. Wiggs. "I'm 'feared I use' to worry some over Mr. Wiggs. T'words the last he uster pretty often " Here Mrs. Wiggs tipped an imaginary bottle to her lips, and gave Lucy a significant wink.
"Your remarks are truly eloquent, and I believe every word on 'em; but," sez he, "I have an engagement of nearly life and death; I must leave you," and he sot off nearly on a run. And I spread my umbrell and walked off with composure and dignity to tackle the next buildin', which wuz Oregon. But my pardner jined me at that minit with his handkerchief held triumphantly in his hand.
Jonas observed that it "seemed like as ef he hed charge of the whole performance, and meant to shet up the sky like a blue cotton umbrell. He's got a single eye, and it's the same ole game. Fox and geese always, and he's the fox." Humphreys still lived at Samuel Anderson's, still devoted himself to pleasing Mrs.
For in the highest places of trust and honor in the United States to-day is to be found the sons and daughters of country homes." Here, at jest this juncture, my umbrell fell out of my hand, and it brung my eyes down to earth agin; for some time, entirely onbeknown to me, I had been a-lookin' up into the encirclin' heavens, and a-soarin' round there in oratory.
Far below there was a lonely street lamp; another stood quite as far away in the opposite direction. "The rain's lettin' up a bit, Jacky," he said in hurried tones. "You've got an umbrell'. Say, if I was you and Miss Christine I'd dig out for the hotel. It's only a block and a half." "We'll wait a few minutes " Dick pressed his arm instantly and said: "Better go now, kid; better dig."
But as my eyes fell onto the Governor, I noticed the extreme weariness and mute agony on his liniment; he picked up my umbrell and handed it to me, and sez he, a-speakin' fast and agitated, as if in fear of sunthin' or ruther:
Sez I, "I'll tell 'em you died a nateral fool;" and sez I agin, "Git down offen that camel, Selinda Dagget, before you fall off." And I kep clost by her, and kinder poked at her with my umbrell, to let her know I hadn't deserted her, and havin' a blind idee that I could hold her up with it if the worst come.
Here Josiah gin a deep groan out to one side, but he no need to I spoke truth, or pretty near the truth, anyway. Sez I, "Here I take my stand!" and I brung down my good cotton umbrell agin firmly, as if to punctuate my remarks, and add weight to it, and I wuz so earnest that before I knew it I fell into a fervid eloquence catched from my old revolutionary 4 fathers, I spoze and, sez I
No; I think better of 'em; they are a-goin' to carry out the idee of that silver image in the gold of practical justice, I believe. If I hadn't thought so, I would a-histed up my umbrell and hit that septer of hern, and knocked that globe out from under her feet.
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