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Mart had some "p'otographs" of his house in the Springs, and showed them to Patrick. "Do ye see yerself smokin' a pipe on that porch?" "I do not," the father energetically replied. "I see meself goin' the rounds of that garden with a waterin'-pot and a pair of shears." "I thought ye was a bricklayer, or is it a billiard-marker?" asked Mart, with quizzical look.
"Do you mean to tell me," she demanded, "that that hussy was brazen enough to march right in here before you got up?" "Yes," I said. "I am only thankful that I HADN'T got up." "Well! I must say! Did she fetch the water in a garden waterin'-pot, same as she did to me?" "Just the same." "And did she pour it into that that flat dishpan on the floor and tell you your 'bawth' was ready?" "She did."
It's a powerful tryin' sort of way, and finally it come so that, if Reuben said we was in for a wet spell, Stephen'd start right off and begin to mow his medder grass, and if Stephen 'lowed there was a sharp thunder-shower comin' up, inside of ten minutes, Reuben'd go and git his waterin'-pot and water every blamed thing he had in his garden.
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