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Updated: May 21, 2025
It was a splendid thing to have such a wicked man for a chum, a man whom folks said even the minister feared. "Ah! What are you reading now?" "'We haven't got anything new for to-night. I was wishin' I had a book." He looked up slyly, to see if the hint had taken effect. The minister fell easily into the trap. "Dear me! I'm sorry I didn't know that.
"Not a bit; she says it does her no harm on earth, and that it's great company for her when she can't sleep." "Has Mary many sweethearts?" "She has two: one o' them rather ould, but wealthy and well to do; her father and myself, wishin' to see her well settled, are doin' all we can to get her consent to marry him." "Who's the other?"
'Who are ye, anyway, and what are ye doin' there? "'Sure, your honor, says I, 'a'n't we goin' to move to-morrow, and it's not the likes of a kind man like you that would be wishin' to lave poor little Naggeneen behind. "'Is that the way of it? says MacCarthy. 'Well, if you're agoin' to move wid us, I see no use in movin' at all.
And it's back on the Moon with those other beasts I'm wishin' I was. At least a man can get close enough to slam them in their ugly faces; but the Commander and his cruisers! Sure, there's nothin' we can do!" "Just take our medicine," said Chet Bullard quietly. "But I have proved him wrong; Haldgren, here, is the living evidence of that.
"Well, really," he said, after a few moments' hesitation, "there are circumstances sometimes in a man's life which render it difficult for him to explain things, but but I have a reason for wishin' to buy this library in Yarmouth, an' it seems to me a good one.
"I remember once when I wuz a leetle bit o' a boy back in the East, I hankered terribly after some hickory nuts that I knowed wuz in a grove about a mile from our house. I suffered days an' days o' anguish fur them hickory nuts, wishin' mighty bad all the time that I had 'em. At the end o' two weeks I walked over an' got 'em, an' my sufferin' stopped off short."
Well, the first thing, he gives me a cake of his chocolate. Then he sets himself down in the mud beside me, and me wishin' all the time he'd go on and leave me for the waggon to pick up. Then he gives me a cigarette, and then he begins to talk." "Talk, what about?"
Shafto prepare food for the two men. "I'm ready to hear the story, Ainsworth," announced Hippy, nodding. "Are you the party that bought Section Seventy-two, Mr. Wingate?" asked Ainsworth. Hippy nodded. "Without wishin' to be personal, may I ask what you paid for it?" "You have my permission to ask anything you wish. I reserve the right to answer or not.
Another minute and we'd left the Katrina behind like she had seven anchors out. On we went and up once more, turnin' with a dizzy swoop and skimmin' past her, back towards where we started from. And just as I was wishin' he'd go faster and higher we settles down on the water, dashes in behind the dock, the motor slows up, the plane floats drag in the mud, and it's all over.
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