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The doctor stopped in midflight and swung about and his eye fell upon the right-hand door and he moved a yard or two in that direction; but no more than a yard or two, for again Jeff spoke in warning, halting him short: "Not dat way neither! The one frum dat other town whar you uster live is waitin' outside dat do' wid a pistil! Seems lak you's entirely s'rounded by wives dis evenin'!"
Now that do sound like music, don't it? No, you better not turn this here grind-stone. You mout git splashed." She took the crank from him and began laboriously to turn it. "Down in Maine where I came from I used to turn for the men when they ground their scythes just for fun." "Yes, fun for them that seed you do it, I reckon. Maine Maine. That whar they uster burn witches?"
The points of them spikes air sharp enough still, though even the edges air eaten out by what uster be on them. It'd be a good thing for our Indian section to get some specimens of this here play-toy to send round to the Reservations jest to knock the stuffin' out of the bucks, and the squaws too, by showing them as how old civilisation lays over them at their best.
Williams uster say he'd make kindlin' wood o' me, when I didn't hustle round, but it never fizzed on me." He hung himself over the window-sill with a sigh of satisfaction, and gazed admiringly at his employer.
I'd give all I possess to be thar agin, lads, dressed in my leetle white frock, an' to hear the bees hummin', an' the birds singin' in the flowers an' trees outside, jinin' in, so I uster think, with the choir. But it was Christmas Day I liked best of all, fer then the church looked so purty with the fresh evergreens; the singin' was so hearty, an' everybody was so happy.
Caribou Sol grasped her hand in his own strong one, and looked searchingly into her eyes. "Bad storm," he panted, "an' a tough climb up yon hill. I ain't as young as I uster be." Then Constance noticed how haggard was his face, while his hair and beard seemed whiter than when first she saw him. A feeling of dread entered her heart. "Tell me, oh, tell me!" she cried, "what has happened!"
The one had grown much longer, the other much broader since the last meeting, but the greeting was that of two warm-hearted people glad to see each other once more. "An' how's yer father an' yer mother an' how is all the fambily? Law, do ye mind the Cherry Lung-balm we uster make? My, but we wuz greenies then! Ye mind, I uster tell ye about Granny? Well, here she is. Granny, this is Yan.
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.
I don't lead these here boys astray that I've been runnin' round with. They're mighty nice clean boys, all of 'em. Some of 'em are mighty near ez pore ez whut I uster be; but there ain't no real harm in any of 'em. We git along together fine me and them.
"Do you mean to tell me that you're the Bob Harding who uster live on a farm near Buckfield, Maine?" asked Bishop, the anger dying from his voice. "That's what I am!" declared the millionaire, as Bishop came toward him, a curious smile on his tanned face. "How are you, Jim?" "Well; I'll be jiggered! How are you, Bob?" and they shook hands across the fence. For a moment neither spoke.
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