. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . une. Here Mrs. Means stopped to rake a live coal out of the firewith her skinny finger, and then to carry it in her skinnypalm to the bowl—or to the hole—of her cob-pipe. When shegot the smoke agoing she proceeded: 1 You see this ere bottom land was all Congress land in themthere days, and it sold for a dollar and a quarter, and I saysto my ole man, Jack, says I, Jack, do you git a plentywhile youre a gittin. Git a plenty while youre a gittin, saysI, fer twont never be no cheapern tis now, and it hantbeen, I knowed twouldnt, and Mrs. Means took the pipef
. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . une. Here Mrs. Means stopped to rake a live coal out of the firewith her skinny finger, and then to carry it in her skinnypalm to the bowl—or to the hole—of her cob-pipe. When shegot the smoke agoing she proceeded: 1 You see this ere bottom land was all Congress land in themthere days, and it sold for a dollar and a quarter, and I saysto my ole man, Jack, says I, Jack, do you git a plentywhile youre a gittin. Git a plenty while youre a gittin, saysI, fer twont never be no cheapern tis now, and it hantbeen, I knowed twouldnt, and Mrs. Means took the pipefrom her mouth to indulge in a good chuckle at the thought ofher financial shrewdness. Git a plenty while youre a gittin,says I. I could see, you know, they was a powerful sight of MIBAXDY, HANK, AND SIIOCKY. 29 money in Congress land. Thats what rcaclc me say, Git aplenty while youre a gittinV And Jack, hes wutli lots ai;dgobs of money, all made out of Congress land. Jack didntgit rich by hard work. Bless you, no! Not him. That ant. GIT A PLENTY WHILE TOUK1E A GITTESf,1 SAYS I. his way. Hard work ant, you know. Twas that air six hun-dred dollars he got along of me, all salted down into Flat Crickbottoms at a dollar and a quarter a acre, andtwas my sayin Git a plenty while youre a gittin as done it. And here theold ogre laughed, or grinned horribly, at Ralph, showing herfew straggling, discolored teeth. 30 THE HOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER. Then she got up and knocked tiie ashes out of her pipe,and laid the pipe away and walked round in front of adjusting the chunks so that the fire would burn, sheturned her yellow face toward Ralph, and scanning him closelycame out with the climax of her speech in the remark: Yousee as how, Mr. Hartsook, the man what gits my Mirandylldo well. Flat Crick lands worth nigh upon a hundred a acre. This came near knocking Ralph down. Had FlatCreek land been worth a hundred tunes a hundred dollars anacre, and had he owned five hund
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