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And you, you brass buttons, you're usin' your soldierin' job to keep your friends out of trouble. . . . Huh! Yes, that's what you're doin'." The Major's smile was provokingly cool. "Perhaps I am," he admitted. "But I shouldn't advise you to forget what I have just told you, Babbitt. I mean every word of it." It was Ruth who spoke next. She uttered a startled exclamation.
"'It seems as if the Lord were not yet willing to let us marry, I said. "'Course not, he answered. 'When yer boat is in the rapids it's no time fer to go ashore an' pick apples. I cocalate the Lord is usin' ye fer to show the Ol' World what's inside o' us Americans.
"Yes," says I, "considerin' your chronic ambition, that was once when you were out of luck. And the worst of it is that maybe she was only usin' you to practice on all along. Eh?" Perhaps it wasn't a consolin' thought to leave with Lester, but somehow I couldn't help grinnin' as I tossed it over. And me, I'm doping out no more advice to young ladies from Saskatoun or elsewhere.
"Many a time while I was piecin' that," she said, "I thought about the man that laid the pavement in that old church, and wondered what his name was, and how he looked, and what he'd think if he knew there was a old woman down here in Kentucky usin' his patterns to make a bedquilt."
A'm no' a society mon ye ken A'd be usin' the wrong knife to eat wi' an' that would bring the coorp into disrepute." His education had, as a matter of fact, been a remarkable one. From the time he could read, he had absorbed every boy's book that he could buy or borrow.
"I reckon not." The parson fumbled in a pocket, drawing out a folded paper. "I've got it, right enough." "You've got no objections to me looking at it?" came Dakota's voice. Sheila saw him rise. There was a strange smile on his face. "No objections. I reckon you'll be usin' one yourself one of these days." "One of these days," echoed Dakota with a laugh as strange as his smile a moment before.
The only miracle about Bibbs, he says, 'is where he got the OTHER kind o' brains the brains you made him quit usin' and throw away." "But what'd he say about his health?" Mrs. Sheridan demanded, impatiently, as George placed a cup of coffee before her husband. Sheridan helped himself to cream and sugar, and began to sip the coffee. "I'm comin' to that," he returned, placidly.
Grist was down the street a piece, and it was pretty dark, but he could see the lamps and hear the doors slam as the people got out. Besides, the whole place is lit up from cellar to attic. Grist come on to my house and told me about it, and I begun usin' the telephone; called up all the men that COUNT in the party found most of 'em at home, too.
I hope the gen'lmen and der fair sex will scuse my usin' an or'nary sort o' 'parison. Here! I'm a trying to get top o' der hay. Wal, I puts up my larder dis yer side; 'tan't no go; den, cause I don't try dere no more, but puts my larder right de contrar side, an't I persistent? I'm persistent in wantin' to get up which ary side my larder is; don't you see, all on yer?"
But it is a waste to have a good article o' food entirely neglected by the public an' so the Bureau and the M. B. L. have tried usin' dogfish on the table as an experiment to get an idea of its value as food." "It tastes all right, too," said the boy. "I had some yesterday." "O' course it does, but the name is against it.
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