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"That air shillin o' Meshech's is the fuss money o' his'n I've seen fer flip in more'n a year," said Widow Bingham, "an thar be them, not a thousan mile from here, nuther, ez I could say the same on, more shame to em, for't, an I a lone widder."
Perhaps it was owing to this state of discomfort that he made no other answer to Joshua's remark than a nervous grin. "I don't see the Widder White anywheres," continued Joshua, looking round; "but there's such a throng one can't tell who's who."
Jack said under his breath, holding the whole of his umbrella now over the girl instead of half, while the agent replied, "Walk to Widder Biggs's! I'd say not. It's two good miles from here. You'll have to sit in the depot till it stops rainin' a little, and I'll find you a place till mornin'. Tim Biggs was here when the train or'to of come, and said he was expectin' a schoolmarm. Be you her?"
I offered her a lift and she rid with me a spell. I chanced to tell her of what I was out after, and she let on that she was a widder, and showed me the butter she had hit was all made off of one cow, and the calf is three months old.
Little they knew, and less thought I, that the pixie then before them would dance their castle down one day. John Fry, who in the spring of fright had brought himself down from Smiler's side, as if he were dipped in oil, now came up to me, all risk being over, cross, and stiff, and aching sorely from his wet couch of heather. 'Small thanks to thee, Jan, as my new waife bain't a widder.
I sez to myself: 'Others might be tempted by a plump, well-lookin' widder, but not Johnnie. Ye see, boys, Johnnie ain't quite the same as you an' me." "Not quite," said Ajax. "Mebbee ye've wondered why I sot sech store by Johnnie. Wal I'll tell ye. Johnnie's paw an' me was brothers an' pardners afore the war.
"Wa'al, things went on fer a while, till I made up my mind that I ought to relieve Swinney of some of his anxieties about worldly bus'nis, an' I dropped in on him one mornin' an' passed the time o' day, an' after we'd eased up our minds on the subjects of each other's health an' such like I says, 'You hold a morgidge on the Widder Cullom's place, don't ye? Of course he couldn't say nothin' but 'yes. 'Does she keep up the int'rist all right? I says.
Mary Ann can't tell me that the Widder Petrie started this idea. It was that Day gal, as sure as aigs is aigs!" and Walky nodded a solemn agreement. There was more to it, however, than the giving notice to the people of Poketown that they had a chance to get rid of the collection of rubbish every family finds in cellar, shed, and yard in the spring. People in general had to be stirred up about it.
"Well, ef you kalkilate to blow me, you've got to blow Wade and his widder too. Jest you remember that," he said whiningly. "I've thought of that," said Brooks coolly, "and I calculate that to prevent it is worth about that hundred dollars you got from that poor woman and no more! Now, sit down at that table, and write as I dictate." The man looked at him in wonder, but obeyed.
So she described herself whenever anyone asked her as to her status in life. To her more intimate friends she confided that she was not a "weed widder," but one of the "grass" variety. The story of how her husband, Madison, had never been "No 'count, even befo' de wah," and of his rapid degeneration thereafter, was vividly told. "De fact of de mattah is," Mrs.
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