"You should 'a' shoved me
aside in the beginnin'."
Stretching his arms upward with a comfortable yawn, he rose and
sauntered toward the door.
"Now you're not to pull out of here, Willie Spence," Celestina objected
in a peremptory tone, "until you've had your breakfast. You had none
yesterday, remember, thanks to that pump; an' you had no dinner either,
thanks to Zenas Henry's pump. You're goin' to start this day right.
You're to have three square meals if I have to tag you all over Wilton
with 'em. I don't know what it is you've got on your mind this time,
but the world's worried along without it up to now, an' I guess it can
manage a little longer."
Willie regarded his mentor good-humoredly.
"I figger it can, Celestina," he returned. "In fact, I reckon it will
have to content itself fur quite a spell without the notion I've run
a-foul of now."
Celestina offered no interrogation; instead she said, "Well, don't let
it harrow you up; that's all I ask. If it's goin' to be a
long-drawn-out piece of tinkerin', why there's all the more reason you
should eat your three good meals like other Christians.
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