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“She’d like fust-rate to come, but Glory be! She’d want ter fetch her pet turkey and Jethro.” “This is excitin’ fun,” moaned Moses, as he picked his way carefully with a tin elbow that threatened every moment to capsize with its flaky mass of black dust, “about as excitin’ as playin’ with the ashes in the mornin’.” CHAPTER XIV.—BETTY AMONG THE FLOWERS.
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“Wisht I hed a chance to holler into one of them brass dinner-horns, too,” he grumbled.I tried logging in using my phone number and I
was supposed to get a verification code text,but didn't
get it. I clicked resend a couple time, tried the "call
me instead" option twice but didn't get a call
either. the trouble shooting had no info on if the call
me instead fails.There was
Half paralyzed with astonishment Billy went with the Doctor to the Sheriff’s office; but he was out and the deputy didn’t know when he would return; thought it might be within an hour or so. There was nothing to do but wait. Billy’s perplexed, baffled face touched the Doctor. His temples were already gray, but he had not forgotten how a boy feels.
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“Yes; but some one who could take care of himself. And you didn’t expect to open dressmaking parlors.” “Stop and chin with me just a little, won’t you, marmsey?” “Why, ma, the children are quite respectable; I know all their mothers.” Buzz’s mamma looked a little mischievous. Billy looked the Doctor over and wondered. He was not subtle enough to suspect the Doctor’s purpose. “Golly! I’d hate to have to wash as much as a doctor,” he exclaimed, as they stepped into the exquisitely appointed lavatory. “You look now like you’d just had a Turkish bath. But I’m glad of the chance for myself.” He surely did look better when the two came out and crossed to the big dining-room; though there was a tell-tale streak around his neck, and his crown lock stood stiff and divided..
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