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There ain't a thing in 'em 'bout visitin' the sick an' dyin'. There's somethin' 'bout not usin' sick dogs, I remember, but that's all there is 'bout sickness; and that won't hardly do." George considered the matter carefully as he read over the "Rules and Regerlations of the Anshent and Honroble Order of Bow-Wow Wonder Workers" in his hand.
Why, they're usin' the same old mortars John Knox fired at the Popes, an' the same ole blunderbusses that scatter wide enough to cover all creation an' is as liable to kick an' kill anything in the rear as in front. They won't sleep in tents an' nothin' suits 'em better'n being caught in a shower on the march.
In a few minutes the job was done, and everybody stood about lighting cigarettes. "Well, fellers," said Sergeant Jones, the sombre man who rarely spoke, "I certainly didn't reckon when I used to be teachin' and preachin' and tendin' Sunday School and the like that I'd come to be usin' cuss words, but I think we got a damn good company."
At last, with the short laugh with which her tribe often introduce a doubtful proposal, she said, "Laws me, Missis! what should Mas'r and Missis be a troublin theirselves 'bout de money, and not a usin what's right in der hands?" and Chloe laughed again. "I don't understand you, Chloe," said Mrs.
He came toward me as if he didn't see me, an' when he reached me he said: "You better go along too, Happy. I want to talk to them alone." "Jim," I said, usin' the old name, "I don't want to do you harm. This game is up; you'd better go along peaceable." He looked at me a moment in surprise, an' then his face got haughty, an' he put out his hand to push me aside.
I reckoned, back along, 'Lizabeth, as you an' he might come to an understandin'." "William's naught to me." "Look here!" cried the old man sharply; "he treated you bad, did William." "Who says so?" "Why, all the folks. Lord bless the girl! do 'ee think folks use their eyes without usin' their tongues? An' I wish it had come about, for you'd ha' kept en straight.
Hannah was continually calling to see her brother, probably to make sure that he was there and not in the dangerous Larkin neighborhood. Imogene resented these visits "usin' up Mrs. Thankful's time," she said they were and she and Hannah had some amusing clashes. Miss Parker was inclined to patronize the girl from the Orphan's Home, and Imogene objected.
Ricker and Kitton, tired but triumphant. "You see what I done, I guess. I told you Mis' Sykes was reg'lar up-in-arms about usin' your house though I think the rill reason is she wants to get upstairs in it. You know how some are. So I marched myself up there before the party, an' I told her you wasn't goin' to hev Sodality sole because you thought she'd been so mean to Mis' Ricker.
Thin, faith, ye'll take ne'er a picter this day, for Oi'm jist afther usin' the last schrap av gilitin in the house to make the wine jilly fer the dinner." "I don't mean that kind of gelatine; the kind I use is already prepared on little plates in this box, and I have to go in the dark closet to fix them." "Faith, I'd fix thim out here, thin, where ye can see what ye're about.
"Come, Hadley, untie me now. Please, Hadley!" Say, I hadn't noticed it before, but the old girl is roped solid, feet and arms, to the chair legs, and it's clear that when nobody was goin' by for little Hadley to shoot at he'd been usin' Aunty for a target. The damp spots on the wall behind the chair and one or two on her dress showed that.
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