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s and hoops, and next kites, and then right away it would be summer and going in a-swimming. It just makes a boy homesick to look ahead like that and see how far off summer is. Yes, and it sets him to sighing and saddening around, and there's something the matter with him, he don't know what. But anyway, he gets out by himself and mopes and thinks; and mostly he hunts for a lones

that mainly what you want is to get away; get away from the same old tedious things you're so used to seeing and so tired of, and set something new. That is the idea; you want to go and be a wanderer; you want to go wandering far away

use, as he said, his Aunt Polly wouldn't let him quit school and go traipsing off somers wasting time; so we was pretty blue. We was

pack up and go down to Arkans

rd. It made me fit to cry to see him act so foolish, with such a noble chance as this opening up. Why, we might lose it if he didn't speak up and show he was thankfu

orry, Aunt Polly, but I reckon I g

pudence of it that she couldn't say a word for as much as a ha

'iling such a noble chance a

disturbed. H

oubt, right away, and imagine a lot of sicknesses and dangers and objections, and fir

e levelest head I ever see, and always AT himself and ready for anything you might spri

alking like that to ME! Now take yourself off and pack your traps; and if I hear another word out

e whimpering as we struck for the stairs. Up in his room he hugged me, he was

but she won't know any way to get around it now. After

own and sweet and gentle again; for Tom said it took her ten minutes to unruffle in times when half of her feathers was up, but twenty wh

n study, with it laying in her

ce Dunlap that's been wanting to marry their Benny for three months, and at last they told him point blank and once for all, he COULDN'T; so he has soured on them, and they're worried about it. I reckon he's somebody t

ny children, and is proud of his money and overbearing, and everybody is a little afraid of him. I judge he thought he could have any girl he wanted, just for the asking, and it must have set him back a good deal when he found he couldn't get Benny. Why, Ben

Jubiter! Wher

leg above his knee, and four little bits of moles around it, when he was naked, and he said it minded him of Jubiter and his moons; and the children thought it was funny, and so they got to calling him Jubiter, and he's Jubiter yet. He's tall, and l

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ineteen or twenty, and they jailed him; but he broke jail and got away-up North here, somers. They used to hear about him robbing and

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, you must be joking! I did

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ing I ever heard of. Why, h

it, and lay all the blame on your uncle, of course, because he's a preacher and hain't got any business to quarrel. Your aunt Sally says he

kind and moony and absent-minded and chuckle-headed and lovable-why,