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But, please, I thought you must be wishin' to go somewhere else first, as you led the way." "Lead the way, now, boy," said Mr Auberly, with a stern look. Willie obeyed, and in a few minutes they were groping in the dark regions underground which Mr Cattley and his family inhabited. With some difficulty they found the door, and stood in the presence of "the fairy."
"It means something about wishin' 'em good luck, health, wealth, an' prosperity, an' all that sort of thing it's a sign an' symbol of joy," rattled off Slim. "Well, now, ain't there more joy in corn than in rice?" triumphantly asked Sage-brush. Slim jerked open the top of the bag while Sage-brush stood by helplessly. "Well, the darned idiot!" he muttered, as he peered into it.
"I wish I could go to school this term," he said to himself; "but it's no use wishin'. Mother needs my wages, and I must keep on workin'." The same thought had come to the Misses Grant. Andy had been in their employ now for six weeks, and by his unfailing good humor and readiness to oblige, had won their favor.
He can be comfortable and carefree and happy, as he deserves to be. And you won't worry, will you, Dad?" The captain seemed oddly doubtful. "I shan't if I can help it," he said. "But I'm the most foolish chap that ever lived, in some ways, seems so. When the business was so I had to worry about it all the time I used to set up nights wishin' I didn't own it.
Grandoken, "with this difference wishin' is askin' somethin' out of somewhere of some one you don't know; prayin' is just talkin' to some one you're acquainted with! See?" "Yes, I think I do," responded the girl. "Your way is mostly praying, isn't it, Lafe?" "Prayin's more powerful than wishin', lass," said Lafe.
From one till five seemed a very long time to most of the hands, but to Owen and his mate, who was doing something in which they were able to feel some interest and pleasure, the time passed so rapidly that they both regretted the approach of evening. 'Other days, remarked Bert, 'I always keeps on wishin' it was time to go 'ome, but today seems to 'ave gorn like lightnin'!
"I wish he was your brother," she said. "Or I wish I was independent and had a house of my own." "Huh! Gosh! So do I wish I had one. I've been wishin' it all the mornin'. If I had a home of my own I'd have what I wanted to eat yes, and wear. And I'd have 'em when I wanted 'em, too." "Don't they give you good things to eat over at Mrs. Barnes'?"
"You see, suh, he was a comical sort of man, an' a great hand for pertendin' things. I never could pertend. Things is what they is an' pertendin' don't change 'em none. But him an' her was different. That's how come him to pertend the Lord'd put the rainbow's pot o' gold in Louisa's hair with a wish in it, an' that ridic'lous curl one side her head, like a mark, was the wishin' curl.
And the someone replied: "Faith, what the Serpent in the Wilderness couldn't cure." "You think he'll play with her?" "I think he'll do it without wishin' or willin', maybe. It'll be a case of kiss and ride away." There was silence. Soon Pierre pointed down again. She stood upon a green mound with a cool hedge of rock behind her, her feet on the margin of solid sunlight, her forehead bared.
Suddenly a voice was heard: "Not wishin' to interfere in a fair fight it's me, parson, Sheriff Peters not wishin' to interfere in a fair fight, I've been a-lookin' on here, where I'd tracked the thief myself, and would have grabbed him if you hadn't been about half a minute ahead of me.
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