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"If it looks sightly, and seems like home, mebbe he'll give out the notion of stayin 'at Nancy Card's, and come and live here."
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Bulk's all well enough for a mighty big effort, but 'thout stayin' powers it ain't worth a continental whoop; an 'stayin' powers an 'bulk ain't runnin' mates.
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"Nothin 'could suit better, Sir, for one of our naber's girls is a'stayin' in town now, and there's enough attraction there, sir, to keep me here for to-night."
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"But as ye've been near dead once this day, shure, ye'd best think o 'stayin' alive for a change."
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If there's some that figure on pullin 'their freight out of the valley -- an' stayin 'out -- they can hit the breeze right now -- drivin' that Star herd to
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Clo'es an 'shoes an' fire an 'cake an' beefsteak an 'butter an' stayin 'home ....
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An 'she gave me my dinner, an' she told me that the army hadn't come yet from the Valley, an 'she said she would let me stay there with her, only she had three cousins' wives an 'their children, refugeein' from Alexandria way an 'stayin' with her, an 'there wasn't a morsel of room.
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Bulk's all well enough for a mighty big effort, but 'thout stayin' powers it ain't worth a continental whoop; an 'stayin' powers an 'bulk ain't runnin' mates.
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Haven't I kept th 'shopkeepers iv th' town beyant fr'm starvin 'be thradin' with thim an 'stayin' in this cur-rsed counthry, whin, if I'd done what me wife wanted, I'd been r-runnin 'around Europe, enj'yin' life?
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"A wonderful hard fix, a _wonderful_ hard fix, _under_ th 'ice, an' I were handy t 'stayin' under un," said Ed, taking evident delight in keeping his auditors in suspense.
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