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Then I wound my galluses round my waist an' tied 'em; then I says, clear an' loud: I'm your new teacher! I'm goin' to have a hundred dollars for teachin' out this school, an' I intend to teach it out an' git my money. It's five minutes to nine. I give you just that long to tell me what you're goin' to do about it.
The old man told you right, so far as he knew. I guess he applied for four hundred square miles of ancestral estate and they told him he could have the lighthouse job. That's so! But see here. He don't really know what his job is. Lighthouse keeper! My galluses and garters! He's the tin god of ten or fifteen thousand Injuns and half-breeds. I've been holding camp-meetings with them.
I axed him one day when they was all spread out on his bed what on earth he had so many galluses for, an' Mostyn said I give you my word I'm not jokin' he said" Webb laughed out impulsively "he said it was to keep from botherin' to button 'em on ever' time he changed!
Once or twice she made a sign with her fingers, and frowned anxiously. "What is it, Aunt Melvy?" Ruth demanded. "Am I going to be an old maid?" "'T ain't no time to joke, chile," whispered Aunt Melvy, all the superstition of her race embodied in her trembling figure. "What I see, I see. Hit's de galluses what I see in de bottom ob yer cup!" "Do you m-mean suspenders?" laughed Annette.
A crowd had gathered before a youth a perspiring, red-faced youth with a billy-cock hat shoved back upon his bullet head a youth in galluses and soiled shirt and belled pantaloons, who, standing upon a box for elevation, was exhorting at the top of his lungs. "Whoo-oop! This way, this way! Everybody this way! Come on, you rondo-coolo sports! Give us a bet! A bet! Rondo coolo-oh! Rondo coolo-oh!
He did all his errands with his usual care, dropping a blue ribbon for Doxy Morton's Sunday hat, four cents' worth of gum-camphor for Almira Berry, a spool of cotton for Mrs. Wentworth, and a pair of "galluses" for Living Bean. He finally turned into the "back-nippin'" road from Bonny Eagle to Limington, and when he was within forty rods of his own house he stopped to water his horses.
They looked some like a stanchol for a horse, and some like a pair of galluses that criminals are hung on. Josiah wuzn't able to work it right and it did require a deep mind to get into one without peril. And he wuz on the brink of a catastrophe. I got him out by siezin' the chair and holdin' it tight, till he dismounted from it which he did with words unadapted to the serenity of the atmosphere.
'I reckon we air about as moral and torpid a community as there be on the mounting, according to censuses of opinion; but I reckon you ain't ever met Rufe Tatum. "'Why, no, says the town constable, 'he can't hardly have ever. That air Rufe is shore the monstrousest scalawag that has escaped hangin' on the galluses.
Then he reloaded and walked rapidly around the tree, still firing. "An' I reckon that's a-makin' some nail-holes fer his galluses!" And reloading again he ran around the tree, firing. "An' mebbe I couldn't still git him if I was hikin' fer the corner of a house an' was in a LEETLE grain of a hurry to git out o' HIS range."
"I was fixin' m' galluses, over Crawford's hedge, whin a gomeral luked over an' says, says he: "'Morra, Hughie! "'Morra, bhoy! says I. Anna arose, put her little Sunday shawl around her shoulders, tightened the strings of her cap under her chin and went out. We gasped with astonishment! What on earth could she be going out for? She never went out at night. Everybody came to her.
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