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I set up and talked to him nigh all night and filled him plumb full of old applejack. That man sized me up for a fool, an' I sized him up for a blamed smart Yankee. But I don't know as he got much the better of me." Keith doubted it too. "I think it was in and about the most vallyble applejack that I ever owned," continued the old landowner, after a pause.
"Um!..." said Scattergood, faintly, and leaned against the wall. "You would come rammin' in," said the gentleman with the shotgun. "Now I calc'late you got to stay." Scattergood grinned amiably. "Vallyble loaves of bread you got there," he said. "Gold," said the man, succinctly. "Hain't no mines around here, be there?" "We hain't sayin'. But that there gold come from a mine, all right sometime."
To the youth of Ameriky it would be vallyble as showin how high a pinnykle of fame a man can reach who commenst his career with a small canvas tent and a pea-green ox, which he rubbed it off while scrachin hisself agin the center pole, causin in Rahway, N.Y., a discriminatin mob to say humbugs would not go down in their village. The ox resoom'd agricultooral pursoots shortly afterwards.
A three-seated democrat wagon was engaged to carry the party to the Wegg farm at Millville, and a rickety lumber wagon would take the baggage. The liveryman recognized his customer as soon as the Wegg farm was mentioned, and determined to "do the city guy up brown." "Road's bad an' up hill, an' my time's vallyble," he said in a surly voice. "I'll hev to charge ye three dollars."
My rheumaticks is a good deal better at this writin', and my mind ain't so much occupied by other matters as it has been for a week or so. When you come home don't talk northin' but business, jest as you natch'ally would to a brother-in-law and an equal pardner. That advice don't cost northin', but it's vallyble."
The Bagman obeyed with wonderful celerity, and I heard the purse chink as the footpad dropped it into the pocket of his greatcoat. "As for you," said he, turning to me, "you get on your way and never mind me; forget you ever had ten guineas and don't go a-riskin' your vallyble young life; come up with you!" and he motioned me into the tilbury with his pistol.
"Not I. For one thing, they're vallyble, and I don't keep a safe. I put 'em back in the old man's top shelf alongside o' yours." Cai groaned. "They're missin' then!" "Who told you?" "The child Fancy Tabb." 'Bias looked serious. "Why didn' she come to me, I wonder?" "I reckon knowing what friends we'd been she left it to me to break the news." "I won't believe it," declared 'Bias slowly.
Jones now came out strong. "Neighbors," he said, "keep cool. The time to act hasn't come yet. See here, Bagley, it's hayin' and harvest. Our time's vallyble, whether yours is or not. You kin have just three minutes to decide whether you'll take your oath to stop your maraudin' and that of your children;" and he pulled out his watch. "Let me add my word," said a little man, stepping forward.
"I brought 'er a nice present, too, what I got in this passel. Vallyble old tea caddy that uset' be my mother's. What I kep' my baccy in for years and years till the hinge at the back got broke. It ain't been no use to me particular since, so thinks I, drat it! I may as well give it 'er as not...." Mr. Polly found himself emerging from the western door.
"I passed you when you was at Miz Thurston's, sir. I can' walk fas' like you can." And he bent down over the road again. "What's the matter with you?" asked Varney. "Have you lost something?" "Los' my luck-piece," said the other, slowly, not looking up. "I was carryin' it in my hand 's I come along an' it jounced out. A 1812 penny it was an' vallyble."
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