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But I'll tell you one thing, if this dumb stove is ever moved either way out of this door if I ever get it into a room agin, it never shall be stirred agin so much as a hair's breadth not while I have got the breath of life in me." Sez I, "Hush! I hear somebody a-knockin' at the door." "I won't hush.
"Wal, yeh could see wal enough that Jess's knees was a-knockin' together, but she tunes up her mandy-linn, scratches at the strings with a little chip, an' gits started all right on 'Rock o' Ages, an' gits to goin' along kinder quavery-like fer a while, an' then she busts right inter, 'He'r dem Bells, so strong an' high an' wild that it takes the ol' man right out o' his boots.
You ought to 'a' 'eard the row w'en the bullets was a-smackin' against the sandbags! Somebody was a-knockin' at the door, I give you my word!" However, it wasn't such a "dusty little coop," and he had a good field of fire. He had registered four hits during the day, and he proudly displayed four new notches on a badly notched butt in proof of the fact.
"Us white folks was good to us. Dey warnt always a-beatin' an' a-knockin' us 'roun'. De truf is you couldn' fin' a scar on nary one o' us. 'Course, some times dey whup us, but dey didn' gash us lak some o' de old marsters did dey Niggers. "When Old Marster died I didn' know nothin' bout him bein' sick.
I reckon I went to sleep in mid-air, 'cause I was too tired to remember whether I was a husky maid or a tender man. When I came to, I thought it must sure be the last day, an' that I had waited for the very last call. The dinner-bell was a-knockin' all the echoes in the house loose an' they was fallin' on my ear-drums in bunches.
"They hain't airy one er you gents kin split up a twenty-dollar chunk er greenbacks, is they?" Tip Watson made a pretence of falling in a chair and fainting, but he immediately recovered, and said in a sepulchral whisper "Ef you find anybody dead, an' they ain't got no twenty-dollar bill on their person, don't come a-knockin' at my door.
In the midst of an account of "a ha'nt that walked the graveyard every thirteenth Friday in the year," John Jay turned over in his sleep with a little snort. Aunt Susan nearly jumped out of her chair, and Uncle Billy dropped his pipe. There was a moment of frightened silence till Mammy said, "It must have been Bud, I reckon. John Jay is allus a-knockin' him in his sleep an' makin' him holler out.
"I never knowed I liked music so well, 'til I heer'd th' Leetle Woman sing," declared Ham the moment the sound of Mrs. Dickson's voice ceased. "Her singin' seems tew come a-knockin' right at th' door of a feller's heart. Now, dew sing us another one," and he turned pleadingly to Mrs. Dickson. "Yes, I will sing you just one more song; and then we must be going.
A good conscience, a sound digestion, rum and smoke ad libitum, enabled our wounded artist to sleep comfortably through it, and he was still snoring when Mrs. Wedge, the landlady, came to his bedside with a flaring tallow candle, and woke him up. "Which I've been a-knockin' and a-knockin'," Mrs. Wedge cried, shrilly, "fit to knock the skin off my blessed knuckles, Mr.
She guv me and Bart and my own sunbeam notice to quit," gasped Deborah, almost weeping, "an' quit we will this very day, Bart bein' a-packin' at this momingt. 'Ear 'im knocking, and I wish he wos a-knockin' at Mrs. Krill's 'ead, that I do, the flauntin' hussy as she is, drat her." "I'll go up and see Sylvia. No, Deborah, don't you come for a few minutes.
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