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I've come to say that if you like I'll lend you three hundred dollars fur as long as ye'v a mind to, without note, security or int'rest; you to spend as much of it ez ye need to dress you an' yer hull fam'ly in Sunday clothes, and to put the balance in the Savin's Bank, at interest, to go on doin' the same with when necessary. An' all of ye to go to church when ye feel so disposed.
Any how, ye'v sot me down fur one of the impenitent, an' yer goin' fur me. Well " "Go on nailin'," interrupted the economical Deacon, a little testily; "the noise don't disturb me; I can hear ye." "Well, what way am I so much wickeder 'n you be you an' t'other folks at the meetin'-house?" asked Hay. "George, I never saw ye in God's house in my life," replied the Deacon.
He commenced an industrious search for a text which should completely annihilate the impious carpenter, when that individual interrupted him with: "Out with it, Deac'n ye had a meetin' las' night to see what was to be done with the impenitent. I was there that is, I sot on a stool jest outside the door, an' I heerd all 'twas said. Ye didn't agree on nothin' mebbe ye'v fixed it up sence.
"Ye wouldn't do a dern thing, Tom," he said, peaceably, "not a dern thing." He sidled towards the door, and reaching it, paused to reflect, shaking his head. "Ef thar ain't nothin' to be made," he said, "ye'v got ter hev a aim, an' what is it?" Observing that Tom made a move in his chair, he slipped through the doorway rather hurriedly.
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