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You can only know what it's been." "Well," Barlow interposed, jealous for Jocelyn's, "you can most al'ays tell by the look o' things." "Yes," said one of the ladies; "but I'd rather trust the Weather Report. It's wonderful how it comes true. I don't think there 's anything that you miss more in Europe than our American Weather Report." "I'm sure you miss the oysters," said another.
"This is your little child, Uncle Zeb," she answered with feeling, "and I have come out here to listen to you play." "De ol' man can't play 'less de feet's a-goin'," he replied, shaking his head solemnly. "You know you's al'ays danced fur ol' Zeb." A darker color came to her cheeks, and she turned smilingly to me. "Uncle Zeb taught me a jig when I was a wee thing in pinafores.
Well, its to be hoped you'll al'ays git bread enough to keep from starving, and that you won't fight nor quarrel more nor is necessitous as the Reverend Preacher Allprayer said, when he married me and Ben together. Ah! poor Ben! poor Ben! I'm a lone widder now. Well, the Lord's will be done!"
Doolittle, havin' had the experience of ninety years, that when a man once takes up with a heresy, he shouts a heap louder than them that was born an' baptised in it? It seems as if they can't desert the ancient ways without defying 'em as well." "'Tis so, 'tis so," admitted old Adam, wagging his head, "but Abel Revercomb was al'ays the sort that could measure nothin' less than a bushel.
His children have never known how it was, for I've al'ays made 'em think he was a hard worker an' painstakin' to keep back his laziness from croppin' out in 'em, if I could." "You've brought 'em up well. That's a fine son of yours that comes courtin' my gal, Sarah. I've hoped she'd fancy him for the sake of old times." "I never thought of yo' recollectin' that feelin', Reuben.
"And it ain't," she gathered up her comfortable fat person to assist the words "it ain't good no, not the best pious ones I shall, and will say it! as is al'ays ready to smack your face with the Bible." "Now, don't ye be angry," said the farmer. She softened instantly.
"He didn't look up to see her face, an' her voice was so soft an' still, I guess he never thought nothin' of it. Then she held the pocket-book up tight ag'inst her dress waist an' walked off into the bedroom. I al'ays thought she never knew I was there. An' arterwards it come out that that old pocket-book was one she'd bought for him afore they was married, earned it bindin' shoes."
Mace Day shot Daws Dillon's brother, as I rickollect somep'n's al'ays a-startin' up that plaguey war an' a-makin' things frolicsome over thar an' ef it hadn't a-been fer a tall young feller with black hair an' a scar across his forehead, who was a-goin' through the mountains a-settlin' these wars, blame me ef I believe thar ever would 'a' been any mo' preachin' on Kingdom-Come.
"Well, ye do bate the the the prisidint!" he said, going with him to the corner of the street. "Now, thin, go up the strate straight, I mean straight up the strate, turn nayther to the right nor the lift, an whin the strate inds, follow the road up the river, an' be it soon or late ye'll come to Scranton." "Thank you! Good-by. I'll al'ays remember you."
To-day she saw before her an alluring field of action; the prospect roused within her energies, never incapable of responding to a spur. "My soul, 'Melia!" she exclaimed, looking about the kitchen with a dominating eye, "how I should like to git hold o' this house! I al'ays did have a hankerin' that way, an' I don't mind tellin' ye. You could change it all round complete."
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