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"I will not be put out by anybody, but I will go out whenever the master of this house asks me to go out, and the rest of you open a free path." "Jonas, put him out!" screamed Mrs. Anderson. "Couldn't do it," said Jonas, "couldn't do it ef I tried. They's too much bone and sinnoo in them arms of his'n, and moreover he's a gentleman. I axed him to come and see me sometime, and he come.
"I wanted to see yer face, sir, if you'll not take it amiss." "Certainly not," I answered, pleased with the man's address, as he stood square before me, looking as modest as fearless. "The sight of a man's face is what everybody has a right to; but, for all that, I should like to know why you want to see my face." "Why, sir, you be the new vicar. You kindly told me so when I axed you."
"Now for it," he said; "we shall see him in a moment, and we'll think we seed him still." "What a lark!" said the boy. "You hold yer jaw, will yer? Who axed you for a remark, blow yer? What do you mean by squatting down there, like a cock-sparrow, with a pain in his tail, hanging yer head, too, right over the coffin?
"For near two-and-twenty years." "That's enough," she replied; "God's hand is in it all I must now go. I have done what I was axed to do; but there's a higher will at work. Honest woman," she added, addressing Mrs. Dalton, "I wish you and your childre good night!" The moment she went they almost ceased to think of her.
There was one that seemed to hould authority over the rest, and he axed who was my landlord? I said I had no landlord. They then said that surely I must pay rent to some one, but I said that I paid rent to nobody; that Mr. Reilly here, God bless him, gave me this house and garden free." "And what did they say when you named Mr. Reilly?"
"`Shut the book, sir, says I, `or they'll all escape! "It was only a small joke I meant, but the critter took it for a big 'un an' larfed at it till he made me half ashamed. "`D'ye know any of these birds? he axed, arter we'd looked at a lot of 'em. "`Know 'em? says I; `I should think I does! Why, I've lived among 'em ever since I was a babby!
It faces every street that leads into the square, and you'd get twice as much custom there as you do away back here next to this little pig-trail alley. By gum, what she said struck me like a bolt of lightnin'. I'd examined the cage, as everybody else in town has, I reckon, an' I knowed all about it, so I up an' axed 'er what she'd paid you for it, an' she kind o' dodged my question.
After a silence, which brought them to the chicken-yard door, where Sheelah was "to quit his arm," she leaned heavily again, "The marriage that they are all talking of in the kitchen, and every where through the country Miss Dora's marriage with White Connal, is reprieved for the season. She axed time till she'd be seventeen very rasonable.
"'What arta boun to do wi' it? he axed. "'Nay, I said, 'I reckon I'll take it to t' Flower Show an' get first prize. "'Thou mun do nowt o' t' sort, said t' lad; 'thou mun bury it. "'Bury it! What for sud I bury it, I'd like to know? "'Thou mon bury it i' t' grund an' see what it grows intul.
"`W'ichever way you please, as the man said w'en the alligator axed 'im w'ether he'd prefer to be chawed up or bolted whole." Concluding that, on the whole, the conversation of his friends did not tend to edification, Miles left them and went to one of the starboard gangways, from which he could take a contemplative view of Nature in her beautiful robe of night.
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