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Everybody'd been so good to her, she said, and she weren't able to turn a hand for her part, and so forth, and we was all kind of pleasantly miserable for a while, till Jim sings out, 'Here, this ain't no weddin' hilarity guide right to the bar! "There we all lined up, Charlie High-ball and all. "'What'll you have, sir? says Jim, askin' the minister first out of manners.
I believe you could ride the horse right enough, an' if he has a chance on earth you'd get it out of him. But give up the idea, everybody'd know you." The girl pleaded, but Dixon was obdurate.
"I guess you're tired." "No, I ain't. It's not that. But it all happened so suddenly, and the boat was so crowded I thought everybody'd hear what he was saying. Ann Eliza," she broke out, "why on earth don't you ask me what I'm talking about?" Ann Eliza, with a last effort of heroism, feigned a fond incomprehension. "What ARE you?" "Why, I'm engaged to be married so there! Now it's out!
Everybody'd ha' laughed, if it hadn't been the minister; but Isabel she tickled right out, an' says, 'You don't take jelly, do you, Mr. Bond? An' he turned as red as fire, an' says, 'No, I thank you." "She wouldn't ha' said it, if she hadn't ha' been so nervous," remarked Miss Sally, taking a little parcel of peppermints from her pocket, and proceeding to divide them.
"Well, you been down to Little Minóok, ain't you?" "Yes." "And you seen how the pay pinches out above No. 10?" "Yes." "Well, now, if it ain't above No. 10, where is it?" No answer. "Where does it go?" she repeated severely, like a schoolmarm to a class of backward boys. "That's what everybody'd like to know." "Then let 'em ask Pitcairn." "What's Pitcairn say?"
"I said if he'd only please wait a bit and Edward would be back soon, and it couldn't matter to HIM, and the pig wouldn't mind, and Edward'd be pleased and everybody'd be happy. But he just said he was very sorry, but bacon didn't wait for nobody. So I told him he was a regular beast, and then I came away. And and I b'lieve they're doing it now!" "Yes, he's a beast," agreed Selina, absently.
"I don't believe I'd like to have red eyes," answered his twin sister. "Everybody'd think I'd been crying." "They're not red that way," explained Tom. "They just have the color red in them; just as some people have black eyes, blue eyes, and brown eyes- -like that." "Oh! Say, I heard Nan say once that a girl in her room at school had one black eye and one grey eye. Wasn't that funny?"
So I made these signs and stuck them up where everybody'd see them and know they meant business, w'thout Jud's having to turn the dogs loose or get his shotgun like he said he ought to. He told me that all hoboes have some way of letting other hoboes know where they can get a square meal, and that's why we have so many.
"My goodness," said Aunt Rebecca, "since them automobiles is so common abody don't get many how-de-dos no more as you travel along the country roads. Used to be everybody'd speak to everybody else they'd meet on the road here, Amos," she laid a restraining hand upon the reins. "Stop once! I see a horseshoe layin' in the road and it's got two nails in it, too. That's powerful good luck!
"Everybody'd see us drivin' together." "What of it? They see us drivin' to the Cattle Show together, didn't they?" "Yes, and they've talked about it ever since, some of 'em. That Abbie Larkin said Oh, I can't tell you what she said. No, I shan't do it. I shouldn't have the face.
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