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Updated: June 16, 2025
"He says you are the 'salt of the earth' that is his very expression." "Yes. We're pretty average salt, I guess," admitted Cap'n Abe. "I never seen your father but once or twice. You see, Louise, your mother was a lot younger'n me an' Am'zon." "Who?" "Cap'n Am'zon. Oh! I ain't the only uncle you got," he said, watching her narrowly. "Cap'n Am'zon Silt " "Have I another relative?
"But but Uncle Ed's working, Rita?" "Pop works when he can, Ju. Work isn't ever very steady in his line, you know. But he don't drink any more, Mamma says, only there's five children younger'n we are, you know " "Sure," said Julia, heavy oppressed.
She was three years younger'n he was when he married her. Let's see again. Father that's your grandpa, Gertie was sixty-five when he died and... Humph! No, Aunt Laviny was eighty-eight, or thereabouts. She wasn't exactly cut off, was she, come to think of it?" Gertrude's brown eyes twinkled. "Not exactly no," she said, gravely.
Any brothers 'n' sisters?" "Two one brother 'n' one sister." Bill looked relieved for some reason. "I got nine," he said. "Yours younger'n you?" "Yes." "Lot of bother with the landlord?" "Yes, a good lot." "Had any bailiffs in yet?" "Yes, two." They compared notes a while longer, and tailed off into a silence which lasted three minutes and grew awkward towards the end.
Mavity was listening in a sort of horror as she heard her father's tones. "Git down and pick 'em up every one! Don't you miss a one. Yo' eyes is younger'n mine. Hunt 'em up! hunt 'em up," hissed Pap, casting himself upon the handkerchief and its contents. "What is it?" questioned Buckheath keenly. "I thort you had some game on hand." And he hastened to comply. "Air they really silver?"
An' it's up to your ma to put you to work." "But he's too young," she protested. "He's only a little boy." "I was younger'n him when I started to work." Johnny's mouth was open, further to express the sense of unfairness that he felt, but the mouth closed with a snap. He turned gloomily on his heel and stalked into the house and to bed.
There's no law against her being in love with Landover, and there's no law against him marrying a woman fifty years younger'n himself if he feels like it. Now you take that good looking Russian over there talking to the Captain. Who knows what's in her mind? Nobody, sir, nobody. All I know is that Landover tried to " "Sh! They've got ears like cats," cautioned Mr. Codge.
To the tune of this old air, the Colonel marched me up to his house for dinner. "We didn't say a word about business, of course, until after we had returned to the store. When we came back there, the old Colonel said to me, 'Now, look hyah, let me get yo' first name. "'Ed, said I. "'Well, yo'll have to let me call yo' "Ed." Yo're lots younger'n I am. I can't do any business with yo' this trip.
There's even policemen workin' for it " "But it's their business to put down crime." Bubbles shook his head sadly. "The chief business of the society is to put down police graft in crime," he said. "But there's heaps o' side businesses. Harry West, he's one of us. He's way high up. I'm way low down. But when I'm called to do what I can, I got to do it. There's one member younger'n me.
"You know what Lizzie Ann West says about you?" "She ain't said she won't come?" He was dismayed and frankly terrified. "She says you're dreadful spruce-lookin' and you're younger'n ever you was." The cap'n laughed. "That all?" he inquired. "Well, she must be cross-eyed." "No," said Mariana, "she ain't cross-eyed; only she thinks you're a terrible likely man."
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