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He looks so much like Blacky the Crow that I suppose this is why they call him Crow Blackbird." Just then Creaker turned in such a way that the sun fell full on his head and back. "Why! Why-ee!" exclaimed Peter, rubbing his eyes with astonishment. "He isn't just black! He's beautiful, simply beautiful, and I've always supposed he was just plain, homely black." It was true.
"If this don't beat all my fust wife's relations. Why, I should have known you if I'd met you in a porridge-pot. But then, I s'pose I've altered for the better since I see you. Don't you remember Joel Slocum, that used to have kind of a snickerin' notion after Helleny?" "Why-ee, I guess I do," answered grandma, again seizing his hand.
Azuba had five thousand dollars of her own when she married him." "I know it," sez she, "and I can tell you, Josiah Alien's wife, where their property has gone, it has gone down Phileman Clapsaddle's throat. Look down that man's throat and you will see 150 acres of land, a good house and barn, twenty sheep and forty head of cattle." "Why-ee!" sez I.
I won't tell it as long as I live!" she declared solemnly. He laughed. "This will not be so great a tax on your patience as all that. I hope the secret will be out in a month. The thistledown, what should you say if I should tell you that Miss Lucy and I are going to be married?" Polly sat up straight, her eyes round with astonishment. "Truly?" she cried. "Truly!" he nodded. "Why-ee!
Then Dorothy, asserting her right of discovery, opened it with trembling fingers. "Why-ee!" she gasped. Upon a bed of wet cotton lay a large brooch, made wholly of clustered diamonds, and a coral necklace, somewhat injured by the fire. "Whose is it?" demanded Dorothy, when she recovered the faculty of speech. "I should say," returned Harlan, after due deliberation, "that it belonged to you."
"Why, Cicely!" says I. "Why-ee! what did you wish that for? and thinkin' so much of your aunt as you do." "Well, you know how mother and aunt Mary loved each other, how near they were to each other. Why, mother could always tell when aunt Mary was ill or in trouble, and she was just the same in regard to mother.
If Bab could have kept her hat on! But she couldn't, and the moment it came off they all cried out: "Why-ee, Barbara!" and turned away to laugh. If Mrs. McQuilken had been there she would have said the child looked "as if she was possessed of the fox." "The little goosies! Let them enjoy it!" whispered Mrs. Hale to Mrs. Dunlee.
"Your wife was brought here to a to a " "Meeting," Cummings supplied hastily. "Huh?" Bowman wheeled and saw us. "Why-ee! Di'n' know so many gen'lemen here." "Yes," the lawyer put a hand on his shoulder. "Conference over the evidence in the Gilbert case. No time like the present for you to say " "Hol' on a minute," Bowman raised a hand with dignity.
We've got a story book about Hop Loy, a Chinaman who was born on Christmas Day and never saw a Christmas tree until he was older'n Cherry. Why-ee! Ain't that terrible! I used to think I'd like to have my birthday come on Christmas, but now I'm glad it doesn't, for then everybody'd make one present do for the two days, and I'd get only half as many pretty things as other children have.
It consists of a regular play, with a ballet between the acts, and a minstrel performance introducing the celebrated scene of a negro teaching another negro to tune the banjo, where the pupil climbs up the back of his chair while endeavoring to ascend the scale; and all ending with a puppet-show, the whole being done by three young fellows. "Why-ee! 'twas wonderful!" says the boy.
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