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Noticing his shaking shoulders as he sat thus one day his wife turned from the window, where she stood watering her geraniums, and said: "What on earth are you a-laughin' at, honey?" "How did you know I was a-laughin'?" He looked over his shoulder at her as he spoke. "Why, I seen yo' shoulders a-shakin' that's how."
"Ike sees the blood 'n' walks behind Hamilton. "'I wish it was his neck, he says, pointin' at the tendon. 'That's what you get fur puttin' a pin-headed apprentice on a good hoss! Get him so he can hobble, 'n' sell him to a livery if you can. If not, have him shot. "Hamilton's standin' there a-shakin'. His eyes has the look you always sees in a hoss just after he's ruined.
'N' ef ye do hate me, whut hev you been lookin' 'cross the river fer, 'n' a-shakin' yer bonnet at me, 'n' paddlin' to Gabe's fer yer grist, when the mill on Dead Crick's been a-runnin', 'n' I know it? You've been banterin' me, hev ye?" the blood rose to his eyes again. "Ye mustn't fool with me, gal, by , ye mustn't. Whut hev you been goin' over thar fer?"
"Ef'n you don' min', Ole Miss, Paisley, she done got de colick f'om a hull pa'cel er green apples," and "Abram he's des a-shakin' wid a chill en he say he cyarn go ter de co'n field." "Wait a minute and be quiet," the old lady responded briskly, for, as the boy soon learned, she prided herself upon her healing powers, and suffered no outsider to doctor her husband or her slaves.
Ay, its very leaves seem to 'ave a down-'earted sort o' drop. I knowed three on 'em once elm-trees they was growin' all close together, so close that their branches used to touch each other when the wind blew, jest as if they was a-shakin' 'ands wi' one another, Peter. You could see as they was uncommon fond of each other, wi' half an eye.
The boys had coined a great many words whose meaning was evident enough but I wonder greatly why Tom and Helen had never taught them the proper substitutes. Among others was the word "deader," whose meaning I could not imagine. Budge shouted: "O Tod; there comes a deader. See where all them things like rooster's tails are a-shakin'? Well, there's a deader under them."
Ah! an' a nice time I 'ad of it, what wi' chamber-maids a-runnin' up an' down stairs to see the 'poor gentleman, an' everybody a-starin' at me, an' a-shakin' their 'eads, an' all a-axin' questions, one atop o' the other, till the doctor come. "Ow did this 'appen, me man? says 'e. 'A haccident! says I. 'A haccident? says the doctor, wi' a look in 'is eye as I didn't just like.
"'Twere Black Jarge 'isself!" exclaimed Simon, whipping up his horses; but when we reached the place George was gone, and though we called and sought for some time, we saw him no more. So, in a while, we turned and jogged back towards Sissinghurst. "What be you a-shakin' your 'ead over, Old Un?" inquired Simon, after we had ridden some distance.
'Oh, I must see her I must see her! cries she, a-shakin' wuss'n ever, so that I was afeard she'd fall off 'er 'oss an' 'im that gentle! 'Can I 'elp you ma'm? says I. 'No! says she, moanin' an' breathless-like. 'Oh, no, George nobody can, O God, 'elp me, God 'elp me! An' then, sir, down comes Miss Lovel an' runs to 'er. 'Why, Babs! says she, anxious-like.
Now come up to your own room, sir, and lay down on your bed a bit; for you're a-shakin' all over, as if your precious jints was hung upon wires. That's a good creetur! Come with Sairey! 'Is she come home? inquired the old man. 'She'll be here directly minit, returned Mrs Gamp. 'Come with Sairey, Mr Chuffey. Come with your own Sairey!
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