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She ain't on no shoal, nor nothin'. She's jest a-lyin' tew. An' I don't see no signs o' no boats nuther; an's fur's I kin see, them folks is a firin' off that air gun jest fur the musicalness on't. Blast 'em! Come, gals: we mought as well be walkin' along hum as ter stop a-yawpin' here in the wind an' spray, a-burnin' up the winter's kindlin' fur folks 'at's a-foolin' on us.
"Kem along away from thar, ye miser'ble little stack o' bones!" he cried, seizing his sister by one hand and giving her a jerk "a-foolin' round them Grinnells' fence an' a-hankerin' arter thar old baby!" He felt that the pride of the Purdee family was involved in this admission of envy. "I jes wanter pat it on the head wunst," she sighed. "Waal, ye won't now," said the Grinnell boys in chorus.
"Poh!" cried Horace, "they must have known you was a-foolin'; of course they did!" "Well, every time the doctor came to see me, he laughed and asked me how I cut my foot." "'Just the same as I did in the first place, you know, said I. 'I don't know nothing about it, only I never touched the hatchet!"
"Ef Ole Miss 'ud been yer thoo' dis las' war, dar wouldn't er been no slue-footed Yankees a-foolin' roun' her parlour. She'd uv up en show'd 'em de do' " "Are all Yankees slue-footed, Uncle Ish?" "All dose I seed, honey des' es slue-footed.
"Yessir," continued the captain; "speaks I-talyan an' English. An' if I ever meets a lady with long soft hands like his'n, I'm for a pert talk, straightway." "What's the matter with his hands?" asked the admiral. "Why, Commodore, they're as soft as Miss Laura's here, an' yet when th' big Swede who handles th' baggage was a-foolin' with him this mornin', it was the Swede who begs off.
He noted the significant fact that it behooved him to justify himself; it irked him that this was exacted as a tribute to Purdee's newly acquired sanctity. "Purdee's jes a-lyin' an' a-foolin' ye," he declared. "Ever been up on the bald?" They had lived in its shadow all their lives. Even by the circuitous mountain ways it was not more than five miles from where they sat.
Mam Daphne listened with a look of incredulous wonder on her old face. "Aw, go 'long, honey, you'se a-foolin' me!" she exclaimed, dipping her brush into the suds again. But an eager voice in the doorway made her look up to see the careworn face of the oldest sister. "Yes, it's true, Mam Daphne," cried Agnes.
"No," said Jimmie, defensively; "he didn't." After this casual remark Henry continued his labor, with a scowl of occupation. Presently he said: "I done tol' yer many's th' time not to go a-foolin' an' a-projjeckin' with them flowers. Yer pop don' like it nohow." As a matter of fact, Henry had never mentioned flowers to the boy.
He said: "Them are what we would call broke ponies, and you fellers needn't get to worryin' 'bout them little girls you're jest a-foolin' away good time." Nevertheless, the broncos had the lurking devil in the tails of their eyes as they stood there tied to the wire fencing; they were humble and dejected as only a bronco or a mule can simulate.
"It ain't so much that," said Field, "but I shouldn't wonder if his father, or some other feller just as good, came and took him off." "Of course his father would have the right," said Jim, haltingly, "but I wish he hadn't let me find him first. You fellows are sure you ain't a-foolin'?" "We couldn't have done it not on Sunday after church," said Lufkins. "No, Jim, we wouldn't fool that way."
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