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"What can I do for you, George Washington Abraham Lincoln Randolph?" "I done come to tell you somepin I heerd whilst I was asleep in de live oak at the corral." "Something you dreamed. It is very good of you, George Wash " "Now, don't you call me all dat again, Miss Phyl. And I didn't dream it nerrer. I woke up and heerd it. Mr. Jim Yeager and dat nester they call Keller wuz a-talkin', and Mr.
"At six I kin swear that Pap was a-talkin' to me in his own corral." The squatters glanced at each other. The 'Piker' laughed derisively. "In love with his darter, ain't ye?" "I am and proud of it!" "Them your guns?" The spokesman addressed Ransom, indicating the two rifles. "One of 'em is mine; t'other belongs to Smoky."
"You've got to learn them Dennison boys, and them Dennison boys is pretty hard to learn anything. You will need all the grit you've got." "Oh, I'll teach them," asserted Gordon, confidently. The old man's eye rested on him. "'Tain't teachin' I'm a-talkin' about. It's learnin' I'm tellin' you they need. You've got to learn 'em a good deal, or they'll learn you.
"You are a Philosopher, Cousin Samantha, and you must know such housen as you are a-talkin' about are advantageous in one way, if in no other they help to reduce the surplus population. If it wuzn't for such places, and for the electric wires, and bomb cranks, and accidents, etc., the world would git too full to stand up in."
"Little boy," she called, and the boy stared with amazement and rage, but the joke was too much for him and he laughed scornfully. "Little gal," he mimicked, "air you a-talkin' to me?" The girl gasped, reddened, lifted her chin haughtily, and raised her riding-whip to whirl away from the rude little stranger, but his steady eyes held hers until a flash of recognition came and she smiled.
He looked that wide awake and active as if he never had been asleep, and never meant to. And my companion bein' willin', and Mr. Bolster bein' more than willin', they plunged to once into a conversation concernin' Chicago, Miss Plank and I a-listenin' to 'em some of the time, and some of the time a-talkin' on our own hook, as is the ways of wimmen. Mr.
And to git his mind off on't I hurried him on. Inside the castle is a dretful war-like-lookin' group of iron men, all dressed up in full uniform, and there wuz all kinds of weepons and armor of Germany. The Town Hall of this village is a museum. In the village market-place is sold all kinds of German goods. Two bands of music pipe up, and everybody is a-talkin' German.
We'll sure make 'em sore they wasn't along. Think of us a-talkin' to old Adam Ward's daughter, herself. Gee! Some stunt I'll tell the world." They had reached the foot of the old stairway and were discussing whether or not they dared prolong their absence from home by paying a visit to the Interpreter, when a man appeared on the road from town.
I saw him talking to one of the Falins in town to-day, behind the barn, when I went to get my horse." "You seed him a-talkin' to a Falin AFORE the trouble come up?" the girl asked slowly and with such significance that Hale turned to look at her. He felt straightway that he ought not to have said that, and the day was to come when he would remember it to his cost.
Happy Lot, that dancin', laughin' tormentin', little critter, a monument of wrath, beats all to immortal smash." "Why who are you a-talkin' of, Sam?" "Why, Mrs. Happy Lot, the wife of the Honourable Cranbery Lot, of Umbagog, to be sure. Who did you think I was a-talkin' of?"
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