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Jest as I wuz a-meditatin' this Josiah spoke up, and sez, "I won't pay out no two dollars apiece to ride in it." And I sez, "I kinder want to go up in it, and I kinder don't want to." And he sez, "That is jest like wimmen whifflin', onstabled, weak-livered." Sez I, "I believe you're afraid to go up in it."
Says he in that low, gentle tone, and lookin' modest and patient as a lily, but as determined and sot as ever a iron teakettle was sot over a stove, "You are under a mistake, mom." Says I, "Don't you tell me that agin if you know what is good for yourself. I guess I know my own mind. I was past the age of whifflin', and foolin' round.
Sifton saw him go. He came in, got some letters at the post-office, and then rode away " Her voice broke as her disappointment and grief overcame her. Lize struggled to a sitting position. "There's some mistake about this. Ross Cavanagh never was the whifflin' kind of man. You've got to remember he's on duty. Probably the letter was some order that carried him right back to his work."
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