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With a careful deliberation that had a double significance to the malcontents, he handed his own rifle to the master and without looking at him continued: "I reckon, sir, you've seen that afore, but ef it ain't quite to your hand, any of those gents, I kalkilate, will be high-toned enuff to giv you the chyce o' theirs.
"Yes, but this ain't no common duel; they say the whole thing was planned beforehand by them Southern fire-eaters to get rid o' Henderson because he's a Northern man and anti-slavery, and that they picked out Colonel Marion to do it because he was a dead shot. They got him to insult Henderson, so he was bound to challenge Marion, and that giv' Marion the chyce of weppings.
"Why, they've sat upon you, Mas' Don, till your head won't work; that's what's the matter with you, my lad. I mean treat us as if we was chyce fat sheep." "Nonsense, Jem!" "Oh, is it? Well, you'll see." "I hope not," said Don, laughing. "Ah, you may laugh, my lad, but you won't grin that day when it comes to the worst."
You can take 'em then; it makes you smile and feel a kind o' pleasure in 'em, because they're ripe. But I'd sooner grow none than see 'em tore off when they're good for nowt. I didn't see 'em go, Master Tom, but four o' my chyce Maria Louisas has been picked, and I wouldn't insult you, sir, by even thinking it was you. It wasn't Pete Warboys, because he ain't left his trail.
"But ’twas ’Good-marnin’’ Simpson made chyce av," resumed Costigan. "An’ the lady replied, ’You’ve broke my heart.’ Whereupon Simpson, havin’ a matther av t’ree thousand dollars to pay for his passin’ civilitee, learned thot silince was goolden." They all remembered the incident in question, and thundered applause at the reappearance of an old favorite.
"Yes, Samson," said Fred, thoughtfully, as he watched the advance; "and so you didn't care to go to the attack?" "No, sir, I wouldn't; but it was tempting, though; ay, that it was." "Tempting?" "Well, you see, Master Fred, Nat has got some chyce cabbage seed, and he'd never give me a pinch, try how I would; no, nor yet sell a man a pen'orth.
As many as you like, and in what way you like I waive any chyce of weapon I'm ready, gentlemen. I came here with HIM for that purpose." Perhaps it may have been his fateful resignation; perhaps it may have been his exceeding readiness, but there was no response. He sat down again, and again swung his hat slowly and gloomily to and fro under his chair.
"You see, it wasn't just the rhymin' o' them verses, and they kinder sing themselves to ye, don't they? it wasn't the chyce o' words, and I reckon they allus hit the idee in the centre shot every time, it wasn't the idees and moral she sort o' drew out o' what she was tellin', but it was the straight thing itself, the truth!" "The truth?" repeated the editor. "Yes, sir. I've bin there.
"Ay, but not a digger like me. They don't set me to prune, and thin grapes, and mind chyce flowers. I'm not like you." "It does not matter what any one is, Ike," I said. "You ought to turn over a new leaf and keep away from the public-house." "True," he said, smashing a clod; "and I do turn over a noo leaf, but it will turn itself back." "Nonsense!" I said.
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