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Updated: June 9, 2025
"'Tweren't honest for Tom to let Bill get all the punishment!" "He didn't mean to be dishonest, I'm sure," said Skipper Ed. "But 'tweren't honest," insisted Jimmy. "As I was saying," continued Skipper Ed, "Tom went to college and made new friends, and when Bill followed him to college two years later the lads saw little of each other. Tom was a brilliant fellow, and everyone liked him.
He greeted each of the previous arrivals by name, and stated that he was glad to see them all so punctually assembled. 'Ay, sir, said Haymoss Fry. ''Tis only my jints that have kept me from assembling myself long ago. I'd assemble upon the top of Welland Steeple, if 'tweren't for my jints.
Oh, Josiah," and the lines of hardship melted into possibilities, "wouldn't it have been lovely if she did live to look!" "'Tweren't your fault nor mine, Samanthy. He knows, and mebby thet's why He sent this 'un. Ain't she purty? And I don't care a durn about the sanitarition folks. Of course if we've found her and they want her " It was a strange sight.
"The Lord surely sent it to save us!" said Charley devoutly. "Toby, I've been a cad. I was so selfish that I was thinking that nothing mattered but my having to stay here, and I guess I was blaming you for it. I don't know why, for you didn't make the storm that stranded us here. Anyhow, I acted a cad, and I want to tell you how sorry I am." "'Tweren't your fault," soothed Toby.
"Hum-m! if 'tweren't for that, I could maist fling out an' dance the 'Rigs o' Barley' a-watching o' those happy lasses," he whimsically confessed in the ear of a king fern. "I could, for sure, same's we used to dance it in the glen around a bonfire!"
Two hours ago they was swimming in Johnson's pond yander. I caught 'em yes, ma'am. It's about all I'm good for now, catching trout and cod occasional. But 'tweren't always so not by no manner of means. I used to do other things, as you'd admit if you saw my life-book." I was so hungry and tired that I did not then "rise to the bait" of Uncle Jesse's "life-book."
And yet I suppose we are real lucky to have such a good son as Hiram now the others are all gone. I dun'no' what we'd do if 'tweren't for him." "Do!" cried his wife bitterly. "We could go on living right in this valley where we belong, if 'twas only in the poor-house!"
Don't lie, you little rat, or I'll twist your neck off!" The fellow seemed quite capable of executing the threat literally, as he again shook Jamie savagely. "I aint' lyin' about un, sir!" pleaded Jamie between the shakes. "I were just goin' to look at un, and if 'tweren't Lem Horn's silver fox I weren't goin' to touch un!" "Well, 'tain't Lem Horn's silver fox. It's things of our'n!
At which Molly ran over in a rippling little giggle, so infectious that every one had to join in. Miss Prue turned to her with an indulgent smile. "Bless her heart! It would be dull here if 'tweren't for Polly, wouldn't it?
You're wonderful fine at gettin' out of fixes, Dad!" "'Tweren't me," objected Skipper Zeb, "'twere the Lard. We does the best we can, and when the Lard sees we does our best, He steps in and helps. He says, 'These folk does the best they can to get out of this fix, and I'll just step in and do what they can't do, and help un out of it, and that's what He does, and here we be, safe and sound."
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