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Updated: June 11, 2025
He was thinking of the frying-pan, coffee-pot, and lard-kettle of which his own consisted. He made no comment, however, until Wallie mentioned his portable bath-tub, which, while expensive, he declared he considered indispensable. "Yes," Pinkey agreed, drily, "you'll be needin' a portable bath-tub something desperate. I wisht I had one.
"How wonderfully bright an' glowin' hit is in thar," she said musingly; "hit's purer an' brighter then ennything else on arth. My God, Thou has sent Thy fires upon me ez a sweepin' flood. Hev they purified me ez Thou wisht? How hit shines an' glows away in thar! Hit seems so deep sometimes thet I kin skeercely see the end.
They're religious and peaceable, and Pap's never knowed no other kind. He wouldn't harm nobody for the world, and none o' them'd harm him. He's only a child among these toughs down here. I wisht one of us was able to be with him all the time."
Now while his right hand still fondled the revolver, he groped with his left for the latch and opened the door at his back. "Dorothy," he called in a low voice, "I wisht ye'd come in hyar, honey." From within he heard a sound like a low moan; but he knew it was a sigh of relief loosening tight nerve cords that had been binding his wife's heart in suspense.
It seemed that most of the girls lived in rooming houses and took their meals out. "Wisht I had a Hamberger," said Mag. "I ain't had a bite of meat fer a month. I always buy my shoes with meat money." "I git my hats with breakfasts," said another girl. "Fourteen breakfasts makes a dollar-forty. I kin buy a hat fer a dollar-forty-nine that's swell enough fer anybody."
Mars Sid, I FELT um I FELT um, sah; dey was all over me. Dad fetch it, I jis' wisht I could git my han's on one er dem witches jis' wunst on'y jis' wunst it's all I'd ast. But mos'ly I wisht dey'd lemme 'lone, I does." Tom says: "Well, I tell you what I think. What makes them come here just at this runaway nigger's breakfast-time? It's because they're hungry; that's the reason.
"Don't you say one word," she answered, with an air of abject confession. "It don't interest me a mite! I give because it's my bounden duty, but I'll be whipped if I want to knit warm mittens all my life, an' fill poor barrels. Sometimes I wisht I could git a chance to provide folks with what they don't need ruther'n what they do." "I don't see what you mean," said the schoolmaster. "Tell me."
"Won't I do, Billy?" asked Wesley in a husky voice. Billy moved restlessly. "Seems like seems like toward night as if a body got kind o' lonesome for a woman person like her." Billy indicated Margaret and then closed his eyes so tight his small face wrinkled. Soon he was up again. "Wisht I had Snap," he said. "Oh, I ist wisht I had Snap!"
I wisht I could be as sure o' Stokes!" Mrs. Briggs looked up inquiringly. "Stokes is a clever fellow," pursued Top Senior regretfully, slicing vigorously into the cold corned beef, for he was hungry. "Smart as a steel trap, and onderstan's his business. I never see a fireman what hed a better chance o' risin' to an ingineer. He knows Her pretty nigh's well ez I do.
"Never say it while the child's livin'! They 'm magical li'l twoads for givin' a doctor the lie. You 'm wisht an' weary along o' night watchings." "Us must faace it. Ban't no oncommon thing. Hope's dead in me these many days; an' dying now in Phoebe dying cruel by inches. She caan't bring herself to say 'gude-by' to the li'l darling bwoy." "What mother could? What do Mrs. Blanchard the elder say?"
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