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"You don't really suppose " The captain burst into a laugh. "What? Those two?" he said. "No, no, I was only jokin'. I don't know about Hannah single women her age are kind of chancey but I do know Caleb. He ain't takin' a wife to support, not unless she can support him.
"But what's the news, Tracey?" There is suspense in the iteration. "Well, seein's it's you, Watty " "You Tracey Tanner, you run 'long and stop your jokin'!" interrupts Hiram with authority. "'Tain't no joke; it's news, I'm tellin' you. Sa-ay, what d'ye think, Watty?" "Yes, Tracey, yes? What is it, boy?" "Thet Noo York dood," drawls Tracey, "is a-workin' for Sam Graham!" A dramatic pause ensues.
Now what do you think of that? "'Humph! I says. 'I ain't surprised. I think 'twas just seventeen of them biscuits that you got away with. Wonder to me you didn't see somebody worse'n old Pat. "But he was past jokin'. You never see a man so shook up by the nightmare as he was by that one.
Amos and Marthy Matthews had been invited, too, and we had a real pleasant time laughin' and jokin' like folks always do about young married people. After supper we all went out on the porch, and Mary whispered to me and Marthy to come and see her china closet and pantry. You know how proud a young housekeeper is of such things.
I've to wait for the 4.20, an' it's a bad time of day for a haunted wood, I'm afraid. The luggageman didn't seem to know. "An' then all at once I knew I knew. Why, don't you see," Calliope cried, "I had to know! That was just the way we'd talked in my dream kind of jokin' an' yet meanin' somethin', too so's you felt all lifted up an' out o' the ordinary.
"I canna unnerstan' ye, Mr Cupples. Sin ever I kent ye i' this library, I never kent ye bide the oncome o' the nicht. As sune's the gloamin' began to fa', ye aye flew to yer hat, and oot at the door as gin there had been a ghaist gettin' its banes thegither oot o' the dark to come at ye." "Maybe sae there was, bantam. Sae nane o' your jokin'." "I didna mean to anger ye, Mr Cupples."
I think a whole heap too much of the Judge to even try to git him into trouble and and then the Judge he might you understand that I was only jokin', don't you, Denny?" Young Denny nodded his head silently in reply. Long after the shrill falsetto grumbling had ceased to drift back up the hill to him he stood there motionless.
Bursting into a loud laugh, he said, as he resumed his seat and the filling of his pipe "Sure I'd rather ait me own hat, Miss Ailie, an' it's be no means a good wan without sarce, too, not even a blot o' mustard than take the morsel out o' yer purty mouth. I wos more nor half jokin', dear, an' I ax yer parding for puttin' ye in sich a fright."
"But I rather suspect," continued Jack, "that as your own nose is somewhat long and red, and as you've got a habit of squinting, not to mention snoring, Teddy, we may be justified in accounting for the " "Ah! it's no use jokin'," interrupted O'Donel; "ye'll niver joke me out o' my belaif in ghosts.
"The Emerys was always a humorous family," remarked Diadema, as she annihilated a fly with a newspaper. "Old Silas Emery was an awful humorous man. He used to live up on the island; and there come a freshet one year, and he said he got his sofy 'n' chairs off, anyhow!" That was just his jokin'. He hadn't a sign of a sofy in the house; 't was his wife Sophy he meant, she that was Sophy Swett.
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