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Sez the man winkin' kind a sly at Josiah, "It won't do to make fun of men, men have the power in their hands and would resent it mebby. Uncle Sam can't be used jest like Aunt Sally." Sez I, "That haint the right spirit. There haint nothin' over and above noble in that, and manly." I wuz kinder rousted up about it, and so wuz Josiah.
Always askin' me when the weddin's comin' off. But sho! They know well enough I never had the money to git married on." "Got enough now, though, ain't you, Uncle Jimmy?" says I, winkin'. "Too blamed much," says he. "Cap'n Bill showed me that plain at our last talk. 'Why, you old fool, says he, 'if it turns out true, then you're a mighty rich man, 'most a millionaire!
So come Sunday, between meetin's there warn't noth-in' else talked about; and Huldy saw folks a noddin' and a winkin', and a lookin' arter her, and she begun to feel drefful sort o' disagreeable. Finally Mis' Sawin she says to her, 'My dear, didn't you, never think folk would talk about you and the minister? "'No: why should they? says Huldy, quite innocent.
You took it off without winkin', and opened your mouth as wide as a young blind robbin does for another worm, and then down went the Bunkum about making you a Secretary of State, which was rather a large bolus to swaller, without a draft; down, down it went, like a greased-wad through a smooth rifle bore; it did, upon my soul. Heavens! what a take in! what a splendid sleight-of-hand!
Here Bounce, having got into depths unusually profound even for his speculative and philosophical turn of mind, sought refuge in a series of voluminous puffs, and wound up, finally, with an emphatic assertion that "there wos somethin' wrong, an' it wos o' no manner o' use to try to throw dust in his eyes, seein' that his winkin' powers wos sich as to enable him to keep it out, no matter how thick or fast it should come."
All right, dat wasn't no fault er mine. An' fur all me, he kin stick dat blazin' iron clear down yer t'roat, an' I'll set yere an' take it in widout winkin'." Mr. Dootleby listened intently to this speech. It afforded him an inkling of the situation. "Is this girl your daughter?" he said. Pete was in no humor to parley. He could only growl and swear.
'An' thin an' thin whin the kettle was to be filled, Dinah came in my Dinah her sleeves rowled up to the elbow an' her hair in a winkin' glory over her forehead, the big blue eyes beneath twinklin' like stars on a frosty night, an' the tread av her two feet lighter than waste- paper from the colonel's basket in ord'ly-room whin ut's emptied.
'What then! replied he who had latest come, and who stood at the mouth of the entry. 'A had my whalin' knife wi' me i' my pea-jacket as my missus threw at me, and a'd ha' ripped 'em up as soon as winkin', if a could ha' thought what was best to do wi' that d d bell makin' such a din reet above us.
'Nobody's left outside the club but Jotham himself, and he "'That's all right, he interrupts, winkin' again. 'You be on hand next Tuesday night. You can't always tell, maybe somethin'll happen. "I was on hand, all right, and somethin' did happen, two somethin's, in fact.
This is your house to-night, you know; servants and all. "'How about that boy's wakin' up? says I. "'Oh, his maid'll attend to him. If she needs any help you can give it to her, he says, winkin' on the side. "But Cousin Harriet was right at his starboard beam, and she heard him. She flew up like a settin' hen. "'Indeed they will NOT! she sings out.
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