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As for shavin', I've got a bull's-eye sort of glass in the lid o' my soap-box that serves all my purpose, and I shave wi' cold water, so I won't be botherin' you in the mornin's for hot. I've got a paintin' of my last ship the Daisy done in water-colours it's a pretty big 'un, but by hangin' Samuel on the other bulk-head, an' stickin' that black thing over the door, we can make room for it."
He had a nice "little wad o' money" when he left the camp and started for La Crosse, but he had been robbed in his hotel the first night in the city, and was left nearly penniless. It was a great blow to him, for, as he said, every cent of that money "stood fer hard knocks an' poor feed. When I smelt of it I could jest see the cold, frosty mornin's and the late nights.
The conductor entered the car and stopped to collect a ticket from his new passenger. It was evident that he, too, was acquainted with the latter. "Evening, Cap'n," he said, politely. "Train's a little late to-night." "It is for to-night's train," was the prompt response, "but if it keeps on at the rate it's travelin' now, it'll be a little early for to-morrow mornin's, won't it?"
"I can't git to go to school till the boys hev more larnin'. I hev to work here mornin's and help ma with the washin's in the arternoon. Mebby, arter a little, I kin git into some night-school." A stage-hand working near by overheard this conversation and displayed instant interest in the subject of Amarilly's schooling. "Couldn't you git off Saturday arternoons?" he asked.
"Yes," said Uncle Billy cheerfully, "but it wouldn't seem nat'ral if there wasn't that crack in the door to let the sunlight in o mornin's. Makes a kind o' sundial, you know. When the streak o' light's in that corner, I says 'six o'clock! when it's across the chimney I say 'seven! and so 'tis!" It certainly had grown chilly, and the wind was rising.
"But the nerve of him!" cried Whitehall, "tryin' ter pass that off on us with Hansen sittin' right there." "It iss one thing he may have forgot," smiled Hansen. "Well, who cares anyway?" said Stone. "It was a blame good story. An' now clear out, all of you. I want to hit the bunk. Reveille does seem to come so early these cold mornin's. Gee!
There's scarcely a man or a woman in your congregation that ain't been out of sight of land for weeks on a stretch." The breakfast hour on Sunday would be at nine o'clock, instead of seven, as on week days, she told him. "Trumet lays to bed Sunday mornin's," she explained. "It's almost a part of its religion, as you might say, and lived up to more conscientious than some other parts, I'm afraid.
I've got an option on this farm, an' it shore is a bargain. Hundred an' ten acres, most of it cultivated. Good water, pasture, barn, an' nice little cabin. I work here mornin's, an' out there afternoons. You'll " "Stop talking about it. I'll buy the farm," interrupted Pan. "But where is it?" "Keep right out this road. Second farmhouse," said his father, pointing to the west.
"It's agin the law, ye ken, to use force." "I wadna' gi'e a damn," said Peter Pegg, his big eye making frantic efforts to wink. "I wad see that they blacklegged nae mair." "Sae wad I," promptly exclaimed half a dozen of the younger men. "We maun see that they don't do it ony mair." "Ay, an' I hope we'll mak' sure work that they sleep in for twa-three mornin's."
Why the old man kep' on a livin', and a livin' till he got to be a hundred. And he wuz kinder lazy naturally and he got tired of livin'. He said he wuz tired of gettin' up mornin's and dressin' of him, tired of pullin' on his boots and drawin' on his trowsers, and he told his grandson Sam to take him up to Troy and let him die. "Wall, Sam took him up to Troy, and he died right away, almost.
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