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He was an expert in the art of "bottoming chairs," and he earned many a silver quarter in this way. The little boy seemed to be much interested in the process. "Hit 's des like I tell you," the old man went on; "I done had de speunce un it. I done got so now dat I don't b'lieve w'at I see, much less w'at I year. It got ter be whar I kin put my han' on it en fumble wid it.
I don't b'lieve in mixin' folks up that way. Preach to 'em if you like, but let 'em keep their distance, I say." Margaret laughed and went off to pick up her things. Rosa stood smiling and talking to Jed until she saw Margaret and Mrs. Tanner go off together, the Indians riding slowly along behind.
"I b'lieve thin she was, yer honour. 'Twas broad day, I'm thinking, when she guv' over moaning. She warn't that way when he went away." "And who's he?" "Jist Mike, thin." "And is Mike your husband?" he asked. She was not very willing to talk; but it appeared at last that Mike was her husband, and that having become a cripple through rheumatism, he had not been able to work on the roads.
'Taint no use splainin nothin' to Aun' Patsy, an' if she b'lieves dat's Miss Annie's husband, you can't make her b'lieve it's anybody else. Jes' you lef her alone. Nuffin she b'lieves aint gwine to hurt her." And Isham, remembering his frequent ill success in endeavoring to make Aunt Patsy think as she ought to think, concluded that this was good advice.
Tregenza's astonishment, had the fire burning and breakfast ready by the time her stepmother appeared. "Aw jimmery!" Thomasin exclaimed, as Joan came in from the outhouse to find her warming cold hands at the fire, "I couldn't b'lieve my eyes at first an' thot the piskey men had come to do us a turn spite o' what faither sez. You've turned over a leaf seemin'ly.
Tell me the river's hard as iron and the snow's up to the windah? Don' b'lieve a wo'd of it. We're on some plantation, Boy, down South, in the niggah quawtaws." The Boy was turning back the covers, and balancing a moment on the side of the bunk. "Sett'n on a swee' p'tater vine, swee' p'ta " "Great Caesar's ghost!" He jumped up, and stood staring down at the sleeping Kaviak. "Ah a didn't you know?
On'y I don't b'lieve he ever sported nuffin but a swagger, and and `aw! W'en I git up dis mornin' I heerd 'im say to his friend: `I say, Jack, wouldn't it aw be dooced good fun to go and aw hab a slap at de Injins? If de Injins send a spear troo his libber aw he'll not t'ink it sitch fun!" "That's true, Quash, but the same may be said of ourselves."
"Aunt Kizzy 'low' I ain't sayin' she's right; I's jes tellin' you what she 'low' Aunt Kizzy 'low' dat, 'cordin' to de symtems, she say', an' I ain't sayin' I b'lieve her, but she say' hit looks to her lak I's sufferin' f'om a hoodoo." "A hoodoo!" Amanda's scorn was unbounded. "Ef it don't beat my time how some of you niggers hang on to them ol' notions.
Besides that, I don't b'lieve what this cap'n says about tinkerin' up his engine. 'Tain't likely he'll ever git her runnin' ag'in, nor pump out the Mary Auguster, nuther.
Then, as you may suspect, the little girl longed to open Uncle Walter's big box and see what was in it. For we are all curious, and little girls are just as curious as the rest of us. "I don't b'lieve Uncle Walter'll ever come back," she thought. "Papa said once that some elephant must have killed him.
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