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Elnathan couldn't talk about anything else like little babblin' brooks runnin' towards the sea, all his talk, every anecdote he told, and every idee he sot forth, jest led up to and ended with that child. Jest like creeks. He worshipped her.
"Of course he will need a house," pursued the squire, "and as his family is small, he thinks this house will just suit him." "But I don't wish to sell," said the widow hurriedly. "I need this house for Ben and myself." "You could doubtless find other accommodations. I dare say you could hire a couple of rooms from Elnathan Perkins." "I wouldn't live in that old shell," said Mrs.
Old Joel Quimbey, putting on his spectacles, with a look of keenest curiosity, to read a paper which the deputy-sheriff of the county presented when he drew rein by the wood-pile one afternoon some three weeks later, had some difficulty in identifying a certain Elnathan Daniel Kittredge specified therein. He took off his spectacles, rubbed them smartly, and put them on again.
"If we brace ourselves and walk carefully," said Elnathan, as he rose and swayed a bit, "I think we'll have no further difficulty in getting along. Permit me to assist you, Eben." But when he tried to lift Uncle Eb up he lost his balance, fell heavily on Small and flattened him out. "This is really astonishing," muttered Frank, repressing his laughter with difficulty as he started down the steps.
A clear, soft voice, with the effect of distinctness without preciseness, which betrays the cultured class, was heard by those within, asking, "Is Captain Hamlin in the house?" "Do ye mean Perez?" parleyed Elnathan. "Yes." "I b'leve he's somewheres raound. He's aout doin up the chores, I callate. Did ye wanter see him?" "If you please."
Dale doesn't want the name of giving short measure because you are careless. Let's do some reporting on him, and get him out of the store," he said. "But there's nothing to report, and there never will be." But the boy persisted, and very shortly he found himself out of a position. "You needn't get another boy if you don't want to, Mr. Dale," observed Elnathan, cheerily.
Most of the amputations in the new settlements, and they were quite frequent, were per formed by some one practitioner who, possessing originally a reputation, was enabled by this circumstance to acquire an experience that rendered him deserving of it; and Elnathan had been present at one or two of these operations.
These were arranged in due order by the side of the murderous saws, knives, and scissors, when Elnathan stretched his long body to its utmost elevation, placing his hand on the small of his back as if for sup port, and looked about him to discover what effect this display of professional skill was likely to produce on the spectators.
And the king of Egypt came not again any more out of his land: for the king of Babylon had taken from the river of Egypt unto the river Euphrates all that pertained to the king of Egypt. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months. And his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.
And sure enough Elnathan Purdy wanted me to dicker for a calf from Mount Vernon, swop one of his yearlin's for it. But the errents Serepta Pester sent wuz fur more hefty and momentous than all the rest put together, calves, hen coop, cow and all.
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