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And it was true, although the little white parsonage was scarce two hundred yards from the tannery house. "Jethro's never ailed much," Jock remarked, having reference to Cynthia's proclivities for visiting the sick. "I've seed a good many different men in my time, and I tell you, Cynthia Ware, that Jethro's got a kind of power you don't often come acrost. Folks don't suspicion it."
Mighty funny note when a cat dassent walk acrost his own dooryard in broad daylight, no more! Poor ole Compadre was shakin' like a leaf when I clumb up and got him down of'n the windmill. Way the wind was whistlin' up there, the chances are he's done ketched cold in 'is tail, and if he has, yuh better see to it that thar dog ain't within gunshot uh me, now I'm tellin' yuh!"
"I was just a trifle too sharp for that," said Springer, shaking his head and looking very wise. "I don't want to make them any madder at me than they be now." "But you are not going back to Fletcher with any news, are you? You told me you had left him for good." "Mr. George," said Springer earnestly, "I ain't agoin' to take no news acrost the river that will do anybody there any good.
"Me cousin Mike," said Mr. Dooley, "niver missed an iliction. An' whin th' campaign opened, there wasn't a man on th' ticket, fr'm mayor to constable, that didn't claim him f'r a first cousin. There are different kinds iv hands from acrost th' sea. There are pothry hands an' rollin'-mill hands; but on'y wan kind has votes."
Your pa's folks are in good health so fur as I know, and the rest of the four hundred are so as to git about, for I hear on 'em to horse shows and huntin' foxes acrost the country and playin' tee or tee he." She said, "Yes, golf wuz gettin' to be very popular in America." And I went on with what little news I could about the most important folks.
Masters, I felt sort o' glad when I seen ye come acrost an' hide in the bushes. 'Oh, you saw me, did you? I said, to hasten him on. 'I should say! I was a-layin' flat 'longside of them little shrubs on the other side the path, right where you turned off. 'Well, go on, Bill.
Nawthin' can stop it. Blood is thicker than wather; an' together, ar-rm in ar-rm, we'll spread th' light iv civilization fr'm wan end iv th' wurruld to th' other, no matther what you an' Schwartzmeister say, Hinnissy. "Be hivins, I like th' way me kinsmen acrost th' sea, as th' pa-apers say, threat us.
"It looks a long ways acrost from here to the States," said Curly, as we pulled up our horses at the top of the Capitan divide. We gazed out over a vast, rolling sea of red-brown earth which stretched far beyond and below the nearer foothills, black with their growth of stunted pines.
"Don't seem yeahs ago to me, suh. Huh! De only blow dat evuh fell upon my back! But yo' snatched dat whip out of his ban' an' den yo' laid it, with ev'y ounce of stren'th war in yo', right acrost his face!"
"'Is that so? he sez." "'Yes, that's so, I sez. 'Get over acrost on the other side of the widowed mother and say somethin' cheerful to her in French if you know any." "'If I know any! sez he. 'Wasn't I at Château-Teery?" "'Well, I sez, 'don't tell her about that. Tell her somethin' she ain't heard already." "'You go to blazes! he sez, and crosses over like I told him.
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