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Updated: June 15, 2025
You git that Owens if you have-to haze him to hell and back! Yuh don't want to worry about the Kid, Chip they ain't goin' to hurt him. All they want is to keep you boys huntin' high and low and combin' the breaks to find 'im. I see their scheme, all right."
"Oh, well, then, just middlin', Mr T. Ye see, I am busy combin' this boy's hair a bit, for 'tis gettin' like a wisp o' hay." There was not a vestige of furniture in the cottage, except the chair the old woman sat on. She said, "I did sell the childer's bedstead for 2s. 6d.; an' after that I sold the bed from under them for 1s. 6d., just to keep them from starvin' to death.
Course, though, as for figurin' out why she ever noticed me at all, that's a myst'ry I had to pass up. Must have been soon after she went away that I begun sizin' up some critical the gen'ral style and get up of the party whose hair I was combin' and whose face I was washin' more or less reg'lar.
"Can you?" inquired Jimmie Dale gently. "That thing!" Birdie Lee smiled mirthlessly. "Why it's only a double combin " "Open it, then," prompted Jimmie Dale. Birdie Lee stooped impulsively to the dial of the safe; hesitated, then straightened up again, and shook his head. "No," he said. "I guess I'll take my medicine. I don't know who you are.
He was settin' on a big stool in the middle of 'is bottles, where he could reach 'em all without droppin' from his roost, an' when his customers was out he was a peekin' into a little lookin'-glass, as stood aside of 'im, an' a combin' out his baird. 'That settles it, says I, 'you've seen 'im, an no mistake. 'Then, says he, 'I called 'im 'General, an' he looked kind a skeered, an' says 'e to me, 'Mum's the word!
"A beautiful head of hair," exclaimed Anna Maria, with a giggle. "Troth, if it's me he takes a fancy to I'll be combin' it for him." "Well," said Juliana indignantly, "I think ye're takin' too much on yourself, Nanny, to go pickin' him up that way. There's others has a better right to be considered first." "You're the oldest, of course," said Anna Maria meekly.
"They say th' jook was that poor he had to have his coat made out iv what was left over fr'm his pants, they do so. But he was at th' church bright an' early; an' Ganderbilk he was there, too, standin' out on th' steps in th' cold, combin' his whiskers he wears a pair iv sluggers with his fingers.
And that is I s'pose the reasun of his bein' so voyalent, at the next place of recreation we halted at Josiah see the picture of the mermaid; that beautiful female, a, settin' on the rock and combin' her long golden hair. And he proposed that we should go in and see it. Sez I, "It costs ten cents apiece, Josiah Allen. Think of the cost before it is too late."
It's like a heap o' woo' just after shearin' time; it's worth a deal, but it tak's a vast o' combin', an' cardin', an' spinnin' afore it can be made use on. Having ended his oration, much to his own satisfaction, Kester tossed off his glass of wine, smacked his lips, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, pocketed his cake, and made off. That night Sylvia spoke of his visit to her husband.
"An' I says to myself, 'If there ain't nobody else to speak to 'Mandy, I will, I says, when I was combin' my hair this mornin'. 'She 'ain't got no mother, I says, 'nor as good as none, an' if she 'ain't spunk enough to look out for herself, somebody's got to look out for her. An' then it all come over me I'd speak to Kelup himself, an' bein' Saturday night, I knew I should ketch him here."
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