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The teacher is a man that wouldn't any more keep company with one of us country girls than you would keep company, Absalom, with a gipsy. He's ABOVE us!" "Well, I guess if you're good enough fur me, Tillie Getz, you're good enough fur anybody else leastways fur a man that gets his job off the wotes of your pop and mine!" "The teacher is a a gentleman, Absalom." Absalom did not understand.
I'm sick of this here, I am." "Well," said Talbot, stepping forward, "I wotes that the prisoner be first made to go and axe poor Dicky's pardon. If he can't get it, why, let's string him up at the yard-arm to balance t'other one.
"That ain't the way a teacher had ought to talk before a scholar to its parent!" indignantly retorted Mr. Getz. I can tell you right now, I ain't votin' fur you at next election! And the way I wote is the way two other members always wotes still and so you'll lose your job at William Penn! That's what you get fur tryin' to interfere between a parent and a scholar! I hope it'll learn you!"
'Now vere am I to pull up? inquired the driver. 'Settle it among yourselves. All I ask is, vere? Here the contest was renewed with increased violence; and the horse being troubled with a fly on his nose, the cabman humanely employed his leisure in lashing him about on the head, on the counter-irritation principle. 'Most wotes carries the day! said one of the vixenish ladies at length.
"Dot I vill!" said the German savagely, "I giv you two huntered tolars for der names of der men vat dot Poozy mitout der law registers!" "I aint no copper!" cried The Croak, angrily. "Wot you wants ter do is ter get elected, doncher?" "Vell, how vas I get elected mit wotes vat vas for der udder mans cast, hey?" "You can't," said The Croak, "dey aint no doubt 'bout dat."
"John Kettering," her clear, soft voice addressed the Amish president of the Board, adhering, in her use of his first name, to the mode of address of all the "plain" sects of the county, "have I your permission to speak to the Board?" "It wouldn't be no use." The president frowned and shook his head. "The wotes of this here Board can't be influenced. There's no use your wastin' any talk on us.
Upon this, the women calls a meetin', sings a hymn, wotes your mother-in-law into the chair, wolunteers a collection next Sunday, and hands it all over to the shepherd. And if he ain't got enough out on 'em, Sammy, to make him free of the water company for life, said Mr. Weller, in conclusion, 'I'm one Dutchman, and you're another, and that's all about it. Mr.
Finn; though the less of them, too, the better. But what does these lords do in the Government? Lords indeed! I'll tell you what they do, Mr. Finn. They wotes; that's what they do! They wotes hard; black or white, white or black. Ain't that true? When you're a 'lord, will you be able to wote against Mr. Mildmay to save your very soul?" "If it comes to be a question of soul-saving, Mr.
Bockerheisen turned his head around and stared at The Croak in an evidently painful effort to grasp the idea. "If Boozy t'inks dey're his wotes " "Yah," said Bockerheisen reflectively. "And pays all de heavy 'spences of uniforms an' beer " "Yah," said Bockerheisen, with an affable smile. "But w'en dey comes to wote " "Yah," said Bockerheisen, opening his eyes.
"If you ain't here to influence our wotes, what are you here fer?" "That's what I ask your permission to tell the Board." "Well," John Kettering reluctantly conceded, "I'll give you two minutes, then. Go on. But you needn't try to get us to wote any way but the way our conscience leads us to."
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