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The others listened with perfunctory grunts of sympathy, although they seemed less concerned about him personally than over the changes the wounding might make in their plans. "It's lucky it's the right arm, anyway," consoled one of them. "Yer'll still be able to shoot as well as ever until yer get all right again."

A man offered me three pounds for the lot, but I know that's too cheap." "Yer'll niver get wot 'e gave fer 'em, but gimme a piece of paper, an' I'll work it out," said Jonah. In half an hour he made a rough inventory based on the cost and present condition of the material. "I make it ten pounds odd, but I don't think yer'll git it," he said at last.

At half-past eight, when it had grown almost dark, Isaac descended the hill. John opened the door to his knock. "Good evenin', Isaac. Yer'll take it, will yer?" "If you can't do nothin' better with it," said Isaac, unwillingly. "But in gineral I'm not partial on keeping other folk's money." John liked him all the better for his reluctance. "It'll give yer no trouble," he said.

"Watch out, now," said Flibbertigibbet excitedly on the way down into the basement for supper and dishwashing, for it was their turn this week, "an' yer'll see me dance yer a minute in the yard ter-morrow." "Yer can't dance it alone," replied doubting Freckles; "yer've got to have a boy." "I don't want one; I'll take you, Freckles, for a boy."

An' then yer take it quite calm, yer see, an' send 'em off agin till yer find out how many more comes; an' yer consider. That's the time yer'll know yer value! I've got an advertiss out now; an' I've had twenty-three of 'em, beggin' and prayin', down on ther bare knees all but, since yesterday mornin'. I've been down to Pinyon's to-day, with my croshy-work, for a change.

Yer'll see 'em come in, betune ten an' eleven's the time, when the cars arrives, hot and flustered, an' not knowin' for their lives which way to turn; an' yer talks 'em all up and down, deliberate; an' makes 'em answer all the questions yer like, and then yer tells 'em, quite perlite, at the end, that yer don't think 'twould suit yer expectash'ns; it's not precisely what yer was lookin' for.

The crowd moved, and Pinkey wriggled to the other side. "I'll cum wid yer, if yer feel lonely," said Chook as she passed. "Yous git a move on, or yer'll miss the bus," cried Pinkey, as she passed out of sight. When Chook worked his way back to the corner, little Joe Crutch and Waxy Collins stepped forward. "W'ere the 'ell 'ave yer bin?

"Come, Ann Elisabeth, git yer knittin'. Git your'n too, Susan Jane." "Yer'll ha' ter set th' heel fer me, mar," said Susan Jane, hoping privately that she would be too busy to do so. "Fetch it here," from the mother, dashed the hope incontinently.

Now I can promise you, in the name of the officer of the fort, a good English rifle for yerself and fifty guns for your braves and ten bales of blankets ef yer'll make a clean breast of it, and first tell us what deviltry Pontiac is up to and next jine us freely or anyway hold aloof altogether from this conspiracy till yer see how things is going.

"No, no; I don't want to hear go downstairs and keep quiet, do." "Oh, yer'll be in such a steaming rage! She burnt yer book, yer Jane Eyre as yer wor reading lor, it were fine the bit as you read to the Gen'ral and me, but she said as it wor a hell-fire book, and she burnt it I seed her, and so did the Gen'ral she pushed it between the bars with the poker.