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"I kind of hate to think o' your bangein' here and boardin' there, and one old woman mendin', and the other settin' ye down to meals that like's not don't agree with ye." "Lor', now, Mis' Tobin, le's not fuss round no longer," said Mr. Briley impatiently. "You know you covet me same's I do you." "I don't nuther. Don't you go an' say fo'lish things you can't stand to."
Having been brought up in the company of Rolls-Royce cars, and diamond rings, and thousand-dollar dogs they don't move him an inch. He just treats 'em same's he would anything else and often it's the best plan.
Thar's nobody ter lend a guidin' hand to a man that's anyways weak. If I'd had you or Buck ter blaze the trail for me I reckon I'd never have lost my way, same's I have done. Savvy?" "You c'd git back to the right trail even yet if you'd only go straight," urged Kiddie. Nick shrugged his broad shoulders. "Say, what you got in the bag?" he inquired abruptly.
Tell me the truth! If you don't I'll get right up and go and see." "I'll tell the world, you won't!" said Billy rising lazily and taking a gentle menacing step toward the bed. "Kid!" "Well he's some hurt but he's getting along fine now. He'll be aw'wright." "How'd he get hurt?" "Oh, the fire, same's you." "How?" insisted Mark. "Oh, he went up again after a fella when it was too late "
He'd drove along that way an' see Isr'el an' Jerry comin' acrost from their work an' he meant to stan' there drivin' me out o' my senses till Isr'el see him. An' soon as he was sure Isr'el did see him, he turned an' run for the sleigh an' got in an' give the hoss a cut, an' he was off same's he meant to be." "And you were left alone with Tenney," said Raven quietly.
They were all much younger than Gyp, and only one, a girl, was yet of school age. "They'll be comin' after yer ter make me let ye go ter school same's Gyp," the woman was saying, as the boy opened the door, "but I need ye ter home this Winter ter help me, sure's my name is Gifford." "Is yer name Gifford?" Gyp asked in surprise. "Of course 'tis, Gyp. Why d'ye ask?
"You kin call yourself Abbie if you choose," he used to say, "and 'tain't none o' my business, but I was in the meetin'-house and heard Zeke let drive, and b'gosh it sounded just like a buzz-saw strikin' the butt-end of a log. 'Abijah! Abijah! he hollered. Shet Parson Simmons up same's a steel trap. Gosh, but it was funny!"
She was pretty and had dark eyes and hair same's you've got, and that same sort of of consumptic look to her. Not that you've got consumption, I don't mean that. Only you look the way she done, that's all. She did have consumption, poor thing. Everybody thought she'd die of it, but she didn't.
"It kind of didn't occur to me," went on Sylvester, "that you'd care a whole lot about being ig-nored by Momma and Mr. and Mrs. Greely and Girlie. Say, Girlie's got to take her chance same's anybody else. Why don't you give Jim a jolt?" Sheila at this began to laugh. She caught her breath. She laughed and cried together. Sylvester patted her shoulder. "Poor kid! You're all in.
Wadna ye tak' the rose o' Sharon itsel', nor the fire-reid lilies that made the text for the Saviour's sermon? Ow! na. Ye maun be sober, wi' flooers bonnie eneuch, but smellin' o' the kirkyard raither nor the blue lift, which same's the sapphire throne o' Him that sat thereon."
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