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Updated: June 20, 2025
"He can't do nothin'; an' if he could, we don't want no fellers from the poor-farm mixed up with the show." "It don't make any difference if he does live to the poor-farm," said Toby, as he put his little brown hand on Abner's thin fingers. "He has to stay there 'cause his father and mother's dead, an' perhaps I'd been there, 'cept for Uncle Dan'l.
It was agreed that nobody at the poor-farm had leisure to stand guard over Tom night and day, and that the sheriff could not be expected to spend his time forcing him out of his hut on the blueberry plains. There was but one more expedient to be tried, a very simple and ingenious but radical and comprehensive one, which, in Rube Hobson's opinion, would strike at the root of the matter.
So, through the driving rain, in the open wagon which was the most luxurious equipage that the poor-farm boasted, Miranda was driven home with her protégés; while Mrs. Bemis gave way to renewed anxiety about the fall tailorin' and Dr.
Cap'n Sproul arranged for a secret meeting of the principals behind his barn, and announced his decision as to place. "The poor-farm!" both snorted in unison. "What " "Hold right on!" interrupted the Cap'n, holding up his broad palms; "it can't be in his barn on account of his wife; it can't be in my barn on account of my wife.
sang Tom quaveringly, as he hid his head in a paroxysm of fear. "Well, there ain't no bloomin' gardings to walk in jest now, so come along and be peaceable." "Tom don' want to go to the poor-farm," he wailed piteously. But there was no alternative.
"I 'xpected to see some of you bawling about now " "Bawling!" echoed the girls in genuine surprise, while the old Judge chuckled to himself. "What for?" "'Cause we've left Parker for good and all. We're never going to live there any more." "But we shall visit there often. Grandpa said so," cried Hope, warmly. "It isn't as if we were bound for the poor-farm or some dreadful orphan home.
"I've got a proposition to make so that there won't be no pull-haulin' and lawyers to pay, and all that." "What is it?" "Pardnership between you and me equal pardners. I've been lookin' for jest this chance to go into business." The Colonel leaped up, and began to stamp round his wagon. "No, sir," he howled at each stamp. "I'll go to the poor-farm first."
It had been hinted at town-meeting that the keeper of the poor-farm was a "leetle mite too generous and easy-going," especially as he insisted upon furnishing the paupers with "store" tea and coffee, whereas his predecessor, Hiram Judkins, had made them drink bayberry tea, a refreshment which old Mrs.
"You come in just as early as you can in the mornin', Abner, an' you shall eat dinner with me," he said, as he parted with the boy at Uncle Daniel's gate, "an' perhaps you'll make so much money at our circus that you won't ever have to go out to the poor-farm again."
There's the spot where Eb Munson an' John Tighe lays in the poor-farm lot, an' I did mean certain to buy flags for 'em last year an' year before, but I went an' forgot it. I'd like to have folks that rode by notice 'em for once, if they was town paupers. Eb Munson was as darin' a man as ever stepped out to tuck o' drum."
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