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"She wan't te right kind of a gal she wan't like my Keewaygooshturkumkankangewock, dat is de same shape all de way down from her head to her heels. So I let dat Ferrington have her." The Huron, who understood all about that matter, indulged in a broad smile at this remark.
She begun about the 'beautiful' sermon that Mr. Perley preached at the last 'Come-Outers'' meetin'. That was what started me thinkin' about the grave, I guess. Then she pitched into Seth Wingate's wife for havin' a new bunnit this season when the old one wan't ha'f wore out.
"I suppose 'tis," he drawled. "If it wan't there wouldn't be so many folks interested in it."
"Not by a damn sight," and I could see the perspiration break out on his forehead. "Why, there wan't none enyhow. That guy skipped out North agin." "All right; we'll let it go this time. Now one more question and I am done. Under whose orders are you in charge here?"
I tell her she'd make a cake of ice feel to home on a hot stove. She beats " The "old lady" herself interrupted him, entering with a bottle in one hand and a lamp in the other. "Joshua!" she said, warningly. "Well, what is it, Betsy?" "Be careful how you talk." "Talk!" with a wink at me. "I wan't goin' to say nothin'." "Yes, you was. Mrs. Paine, you mustn't mind him.
As I growed up, the bar had become scacer in them parts, and it wan't every day you could scare up such a varmint, but now and then one ud turn up. There war tracks o' the bar's paws in this mud, an' I follered them along the water edge for nearly a mile then the trail turned into about as thickety a bottom as I ever seed anywhar. It would a baffled a cat to crawl through it.
I was going to say something to eat; but I felt kinder 'shamed. I was cuttin' wood for the fire, when he come over, with an old blunt axe, the only one Barkspear would let me use. So I told him I'd like a good axe, because I couldn't think of anything else I wanted. He gin me the best axe he could find in town. I used it when Barkspear wan't round; but I kept it hid away in the barn.
'How do I know what he said? says I. 'I wan't there, was I? 'Where was you that forenoon? he says. 'Forenoon! says I, 'that shows how much you know about it. 'Twas three o'clock in the afternoon. Oh, I had the laugh on him!" Dorinda looked at me and shook her head. "It's too bad, Roscoe," she said. "But I was afraid of it as soon as I found he'd sneaked off to the post-office.
There's no secrets between us, Solomon." "I don't care. I wan't to talk to you. It's you I've got to talk to." Thankful would have protested once more, but Emily put a hand on her arm. "I'll go into the living-room with Georgie, Auntie," she whispered. "Yes, I shall." She went and closed the door behind her. Thankful sat down in a chair, wondering what was coming next.
"Plague take Marietta!" impatiently. "She wan't nothin' but the go-between. 'Twas my wife that said it. You understand 'twas Julia, my wife, talkin', don't you?" "Why ah why I suppose " "Suppose? Don't you KNOW 'twas?" "Why ah no doubt, no doubt." "Course there ain't any doubt. Well then, Julia said there was a dark man heavin' a sort of evil influence over Lulie."
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