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Pulcifer," he said, "I if you are not too greatly occupied I should like to ask ah a business question. Ah may I?" He most assuredly could. In fact, he was urged to ask it then and there. "Never too busy to talk business, a feller usually ain't; eh, Perfessor? Haw, haw! I'd say he wan't, eh? Set down, set down and ease your mind. What's the business question? Let 'er go." Mr.
Ah don't reckon es how none o' dem men kin see back yere no more. Massa Kirby he wus aboard dat steamer, sah." "Kirby! Are you sure about that, Sam?" "'Course Ah's sure. Didn't Ah see him just as plain as Ah see you right now? He wus for-rad by de rail, near de pilot house, a watchin' dis whole shore like a hawk. Dat sure wus Massa Kirby all right, but dar wan't nobody else 'long wid him."
My father says you are brave and he knows, for you wan't afraid of that mad dog, and there's nothin' as bad as that. Oh, down yonder where the branch is bigger there is a water fall; and after a rain it roars and I used to go there with little Bud and we called it a scolding giant. Shall we go down there?" "Yes, but you mustn't mustn't think of that boy Bud so much." "Oh, he was only a spirit."
And he never seemed to notice, but went right on. If 'Licia hadn't picked it up, that nice new hat would have been layin' there yet. That's the most undignified thing ever I see Heman Atkins do. He MUST be tired out, poor man!" "Whit," asked Asaph next day, "wan't you surprised to see Heman last night?" Captain Cy nodded.
"Hilloa, Mister!" cried the cause of all this confusion, "didn't you tell me ?" "I told you nothing." "But didn't I ask you if thar wan't some one overboard?" "You did." "And you said in reply " "I said nothing in reply." "Darned if you didn't! you said `Thar she is! or, `It was she! or something o' that sort."
"When they come to go below, there was considerable of a crowd on deck by that time, standin' round while they knocked out the keys and took off the fore-hatch, Cap'n Green called on Cap'n Purse and the deacon to go down with him; but they didn't 'pear to be very anxious, and the old man wan't goin' to hang back for company with everybody lookin' at him, so he lit a candle and went down, and the folks crowded round and waited for him.
"Yes, until father received the appointment to come down here." "Is yo' mother livin'?" "No, I can just remember her." She mused for a few moments as if struggling with a thought. "I read of them findin' a new star," she said, "and I wondered if it wan't the speret of some good man or woman that hed passed away from down here an' gone up there."
"I declare," says another man, after 'twas all over, "I thought you was a Christian." "Am up to a cert in p'int," says he. "Can't go tew fur not 'n these parts men are tew powerful. 'Twon't do 'less ye wan'if die sudden. When he begun poundin' uv me I see I wan't eggzac'ly prepared." ''Fraid 's a good deal thet way with most uv us. We're Christians up to a cert'in p'int.
"Amarilly," dulcetly spoke a well-loved voice. Her eyes turned quickly. Colette stood at the curb, her hand on the door of the electric. "I waited to take you home, dear. Why, what's the matter, Amarilly? Tears?" "I thought you wan't goin' to speak to me," said Amarilly, as she stepped into the brougham and took the seat beside Colette. "I didn't want to interrupt you and Mr.
And that ended that try of makin' up. "And from then on it got worse and worse. There wan't much comfort at home where the inventor was, so I took to stayin' out nights. Went down to the store and hung around, listenin' to fools' gabble, and wishin' I was dead. And the more I stayed out, the more Bennie D. laughed and sneered and hinted.
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