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And I want to tell you gentlemen he was goin' like hell a-smokin' when I seen him last. Mebby you don't believe that? And there's somethin' else that old Ranger Trail forks three times this side of Cienegas and she forks twice afore she crosses the line. She's a dim trail when she's doin' her best acrost the rocks, and they's places in her where she's as blind as a dead ox.
The birdlike features which had begun to relax hardened once more. "Maybe I be," he answered her question with noncommittal grimness. "Maybe I be and maybe I ain't!" And then, almost belligerently: "Your lamp's a-smokin'!" She turned and strained on tiptoe and lowered it.
"A stout gent in a straw 'at," answered the boy, staring round him bewilderedly. "Well, where is he?" asked Amenda. "I dunno," replied the boy, in an awed voice; "'e was a-standin' there, at the other end of the punt, a-smokin' a cigar." Just then a head appeared above the water, and a spent but infuriated swimmer struggled up between the houseboat and the bank.
Think of it, matey the bed with the green curtains, and the good smell of the herrings you toasts yerself and the fire you makes outer sticks, and the little starses a-comin' out and a-winkin' at you, and all so quiet, a-smokin' yer pipe till it falls outer yer mouth with sleepiness, and no fear o' settin' the counterpin afire. What you say, matey, eh?"
So that it was not surprising that the amiable conductor, standing by for the tickets and struck by the obvious likeness, should have observed: "Your son's pretty young to be a-smokin' seegars, ain't he?" Mr. Stanhope, not knowing what this remark meant, and caring less, answered with a cold stare, though inwardly he cursed the man for his fatuous impertinence.
Slogan, sez she, 'I believe sister's friz in 'er bed, ur dropped off sudden, fer as shore as yore a-smokin' in that cheer, thar ain't a speck o' fire in 'er chimney. Well, I wus in my stockin' feet, like I ginerally am when I want to take it easy before a fire on a cold day, an' I slid my feet into my shoes as quick as I could an' went out an' took a look.
"Bill inside." All That Glisters is Not Gold One day an Irishman was seated in the waiting-room of a station with an odorous pipe in his mouth. One of the attendants called his attention to the sign: "No smoking." "Well," said Pat, "I'm not a-smokin'." "But you have a pipe in your mouth." "Shure, an' I've shoes on me feet an' I'm not walkin'." Her Affectionate Brothers
"'Er petticoat was yaller, an' 'er little cap was green. An' 'er name was Supi-yaw-lat jes' the same as Theebaw's Queen, An' I seed her first a-smokin' of a whackin' white cheroot. An' a-wastin' Christian kisses on a 'eathen idol's foot." They are all there in Rangoon yet the gorgeous coloring of the lady's raiment, her cheroots, and the heathen idols "Bloomin' idol made o' mud.
If he gets word of the shootin' while he's out there, he'll just up and cut across the hills to Criswell a-smokin'. But if he gets this far back he's like to come through Jason and I can cool him down, mebby." "He ought to know; if his father is " "That's just it. But I'm thinkin' of the boy. Jim Waring's lived a big chunk of his life. But they ain't no use of the kid gettin' shot up.
Last night he evidentially found difficulty with the stairs and I seen him asleep on the parlour sofa when I come down to answer the milkman, a-smokin' a cigar that wasn't lit, with his feet on the angelus." "I'm very, very sorry, Mrs. Greeve," he said "and so is Mr. Erroll. He and I had a little talk to-day, and I am sure that he will be more careful hereafter."
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