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Seems's if Providence was in it. Gracious, see that man running here! I hope there ain't anything else happened!" and with her old flutter upon her, Mrs. Higby turned to meet a young man advancing to the door-stone, with more speed than was ordinarily exhibited by the natives of Brierly. "Is this Mr. Jotham Higby's house?" asked the stranger.
If I was er as you might say, first mate of all creation I'd put some church folks in jail and a good many jail folks in church. Seems's if the swap would be a help to both sides. . . . I I hope you don't think I'm er unfeelin', jokin', when you're in such worry and trouble," he added, anxiously. "I didn't mean it." His anxiety was wasted.
They stood about us to say good-by, or to tell us some last bit of the news of their long-past youth dear, wrinkled faces framed in broad lines of bonnet or hood, and smiling, every one. "This gray shawl I got on me is the very one I used to wrap Amy in to carry her through the cold hall," said Grandma Holly. "My land-a-livin'! seems's if I'd been with her to-night, over again!"
I ain't goin' to ast you not to tell anybody, 'cause I guess you will anyhow, sooner or later; and it don't make much difference if you do. But seems's if I can't hold in no longer. I guess maybe I'll feel easier in my own mind when I git it all told. Shet that door jest close it the lock is broke and set down in that chair, please, sir."
Seems's if dry clothes and supper might be the next items on the manifest." Miss Parker rose to the occasion. She flew about preparing the "items." Thankful and Emily were shown to the spare room, hot water and towels were provided, the valise was brought in.
"Say," he said, "I want to ask you a question are you any relation to the Captain Hardy that I served with over at Fort Apache? Seems's if you look like 'im, only smaller." His stature was a sore point with Hardy, and especially in connection with his father, but making allowance for Mr. Johnson's ways he modestly admitted his ancestry. "His son, eh!" echoed the old man. "Waal now!
Seems's if I never saw such long tacks; I do believe whoever put 'em down drove 'em clean through the center of the earth and let the Chinymen clinch 'em on t'other side. I haul up a chunk of the cellar floor with every one. Ah, hum!" with a sigh, "I cal'late they ain't any more anxious to leave home than I am.
When I've had them weakly spells, the' warn't nobody but Mel'dy could ha' brought me out of 'em alive, well I know. She tended me and sung to me like all the angels in heaven, and when she'd lay her hand on me well, there! seems's though my narves 'ud quiet right down, and blow away like smoke. I've ben a well woman that is to say, for one that's always enjoyed poor health sence Dr.
The Vorses had small children that they could not leave very long alone; so, when Min and her mother had reduced the kitchen to orderly, warm, soap-scented darkness every night, and wound the clock, and hung up their aprons, they went up to the Vorses' to play "five hundred." "Seems's if I never could get enough light, myself," the matron continued agreeably, descending the porch steps.
Ef govment ain't a goin tew pay me them bills, an 'tain't, 'it don' seem fair tew tax me so's it kin pay debts it owes tew other folks. Leastways seems's though them bills govment owes me orter be caounted agin the taxes instead o' bein good fer nothin. It don't seem ez if 'twas right, nohaow."
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