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"It's them trusters," wailed Peter. "They come a-peekin' round to see we don't get well." "They alters calls us 'uncurables," moaned Susan. "Pig of water-drinking Americans!" came from the last cot. "Ye shut up, Michael! Who did ye ever hear say that?" "Mine fader." And Michael spat in a perfect imitation thereof. "Well, don't ye ever say it ag'in do ye hear?
Who's that a-peekin' behind ye?" "It's me, Jaspar," said Mrs. Panel meekly. Uncle Jap unlocked the door of the vestry and let us in. Leveson sat huddled up in his chair. Uncle Jap prodded him with the ancient pistol which he still held in his hands. "Can't you offer a lady a chair?" he said testily. Leveson offered his chair, upon the extreme edge of which Mrs. Panel deprecatingly seated herself.
"Oh, no, no!" answered the man, and then apparently regretting his more friendly tone added, "But I reckon I ought to, coming here a-peekin' an' a-pryin' into what don't concern him," and he set the basket down on the iron chest with such a thud that it fairly bounced. "Oh, he wasn't; I was the one who peeked at the guns," said Anne. "Oho! Peekin' at the guns!
Well, that made me mad, and I wouldn't play robbers with them, and I slid down to the barn floor, and went to the door, and looked out to see if it was getting any lighter. But George, he put on a terrible look, and began to say, "I'm the King of the Robbers, who's this yere a-peekin' and a-spyin' in my den?" Then Sam called out, "It's me.
"Look here, you!" he shouted back, his hand on the gate. "Heerd anything o' that new doctor round here? Well, he's been a-pokin' into my ears, an' I guess he'd ha' cured me, if anybody could. You know I don't hear so well's I used to. He went a-peekin' an' a-pryin' round my ears, as if he'd found a hornet's nest. I dunno what he see there; I know he shook his head.
We-uns in a plumb black midnight hear a man a-gittin' over our fence; we git our rifles; a-peekin' through the chinkin' we ketch a glimge o' him " "Ha!" cried out Timothy, with savage satisfaction, "we seen him by the light she set her head him on!"
"I'm thinkin' it don't pay to let it go an' not have the doctor see about it," growled the butler in a deep bass voice. "An' ain't they seein' about it wid all their eyes, the ould docthor a-peekin' at the swate little thing t'rough his goggles, an' puttin' a wee bit t'ermom'ter into her mouth what for I do' 'no' unless 'tis ter foind out if it's near toime fer her ter be a-talkin'."
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