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'Nothin' like it, replied his father. 'But don't you think it means more? inquired Sam. 'Vell p'raps it's a more tenderer word, said Mr. Weller, after a few moments' reflection. 'Go on, Sammy. "Feel myself ashamed and completely circumscribed in a-dressin' of you, for you are a nice gal and nothin' but it." 'That's a wery pretty sentiment, said the elder Mr.
The inmates of the Oakley house had not been long in their beds before Hamilton was out of his and rousing his own little household. "You, Joe," he called to his son, "git up f'om daih an' come right hyeah. You got to he'p me befo' you go to any shop dis mo'nin'. You, Kitty, stir yo' stumps, miss. I know yo' ma 's a-dressin' now. Ef she ain't, I bet I 'll be aftah huh in a minute, too.
I should think all you'unses knows how womenfolks does that's airy. Ef this yere one wus that way, she'd be a-dressin' in starched calikers 'n' sunbonnets 'n' bress-pins, 'n' mebbe rings 'n' congrist-gaiters. She'd be to the meetin' every time there was meetin' a-showin' out 'n' lettin' on like she didn't know the rest on 'em wus seein'. It don't sound to reason that either on 'em is airy."
"My woman read in some fool-journal somewheres, lately," he explained, "about pourin' kerosene on yer corns and then takin' a match to her and lightin' of her off. "Wal', I supposed she was a-dressin' my corns down in jest the old usual way, last Sunday mornin', when by clam! ye don't want to splice onto too young a shipmate, major."
"You see, our ellums and maples 'n' all them trees spends part o' the year in buddin' 'n' gittin' out their leaves 'n' hangin' em all over the branches; 'n' then, no sooner air they full grown than they hev to begin colorin' of 'em red or yeller or brown, 'n' then shakin' 'em off; 'n' this is all extry, you might say, to their every-day chores o' growin' 'n' cirkerlatin' sap, 'n' spreadin' 'n' thickenin' 'n' shovin' out limbs, 'n' one thing 'n' 'nother; 'n' it stan's to reason that the first 'n' hemlocks 'n' them California redwoods, that keeps their clo'es on right through the year, can't be so busy as them that keeps a-dressin' 'n' ondressin' all the time."
What did I tell ye?" bawled Cap'n Ira. "Take this here thing off'n me! Want to make me more of an old Betty than I be a'ready a-dressin' me in women's clothes? I swan!" Tunis ran to the old man's rescue, but it was the girl who lifted Prudence from out the laundry-basket. "Drat the thing!" ejaculated Cap'n Ira, fighting off the starched dress.
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