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"That's what I've been thinking this long time," said old Bob Carter, who had for over forty years made a point of agreeing with the most disagreeable person at the moment in the bar of the "Bull and Gate." "Isn't there? You wait an' see. You wait till the trial," said William Roper. "Trial? There won't be no trial. 'Oo's a goin' to be tried? They ain't agoin' to try Jim 'Utchings.
Andrew Jackson, with her little straw hat an' her green carpet-slippers, a-dancin' some kind of a skippin' fandango, an' a-holdin' out her skirts with the tips of her fingers. I was jus' agoin' to rush in an' grab her when a man walks quick into the ring and touches her on the shoulder. The minute I seed him I knowed him. It was our old boarder!" "It was?" exclaimed Euphemia.
I've got twenty-four hours, and more, to get this girl, and I'll do it!" "Bad move to have weight like her on a march," said Metzar. "Bah! The thing's easy. As for you, go on, push ahead after we're started. All I ask is that you stay by me until the time to cut loose." "I ain't agoin' to crawfish now," growled Metzar. "Strikes me, too, I'm losin' more'n you."
'Taint of much account if you do any way. I sing sometimes, I yet sing," says he. "Sing," sez I in neerly witherin' tone. "I'd love to hear you sing, I haint yet and I've lived with you agoin' on 30 years." "Wall, if you haint heerd me, it is because you are deef," sez he.
When they were all set right, he bowed and scraped, and touched his hat to me, as if I'd been the biggest gentleman in the land; talkin, too, he was, all the time, though I couldn't make out a word of his lingo; and then he insisted on my takin' one o' the figurs. I wasn't agoin' to take it, for I didn't want it; but I happened to think little Gerty might like it."
"But are they goin' ter stay't your place?" questioned Tode. "'Spect so." Dick's voice was gruffer than before. "I'm agoin' 'round there to see 'em to-day," remarked Tode. Dick made no reply. Tode repeated, "Don't ye hear? I say I'm agoin' ter see 'em to-day." "I heard what ye said. S'pose I'm deaf?" and Dick turned his back and marched off. Tode looked after him angrily.
I see that Mr. Saunders is agoin' to anchor here for the night." The second mate, who had been taking a hasty glance at the various huts of the village, selected two of the largest as a lodging for his men, and having divided them into two gangs, ordered them to turn in and sleep as hard as possible. "S'pose we may sup first?" said Summers in a whining tone of mock humility.
"Thank ye, sir, thank ye sir," nodded Abigail, while Hezekiah offered his hand. "Shake, stranger, shake! An' I ain't too old, an' I'm agoin' ter prove it. I've got money, sir, heaps of it, an' I'm goin' ter spend it mebbe I'll spend it all. We're agoin' ter see Bunker Hill an' Faneuil Hall, an' we're agoin' ter ride in the subway. Now, don't tell me we don't know how ter enj'y ourselves!"
'N when they git hard up, a couple on 'em put in a month's work for some skalliwag 'company' or other, 'n so they keep agoin'. The three married ones ain't up there at all." "So you've got seven sons?" "Yes; seven boys, all told. We lost a girl," he added, with an indefinable change in his voice. "Her name was Loretty."
There's a funny old lady inside what's powerful afeerd of bandits, an' there's a gurl. I seen her takin' in your size an' spurs, an' thet gun you pack sort of comfortable like. An' there's a gambler, too, if I ever seen one. Reckon I'm agoin' to enjoy this ride." After the next stop, where the travelers got dinner, Pan returned to the stage to find a young lady perched upon the driver's seat.
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