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That will bring him the lands, and money, and freends, as plenty as blackberries. Sae far as I can see, your gentlefolk dinna do weel in the bush; they're ower proud to tak' to the axe and the hoe as they ought, an' they hae maistly fine habits o' life that mak' them unhappy. I wad like to see the captain or his son cobblin' their ain shoon!
So I giv' up the cobblin' an' went about the country doin' odd jobs, because I thought I might hear summat on her; but I never did, an' after years had gone by I come ere an' settled down again. So that's how I lost my little gal, an' it's nigh twenty years ago." At this moment Nurse's voice was heard outside calling for Dickie, and Andrew's whole manner changed at the sound.
You've got to have vittles and clothes, even in Trumet, and a place to put your head in nights. Long's Sol was alive and could do his cobblin' we managed to get along somehow. What I could earn sewin' helped, and we lived simple.
Lafe nodded as Maudlin stepped into the shop. There was an unusually aggressive expression upon the young wood gatherer's face, and Mr. Grandoken refrained from asking him to sit down. Instead he questioned: "Brought some cobblin'?" "No," said Bates. "Wanted to talk to you; that's all." "Hurry up, then, 'cause I'm busy." "Where's Jinnie?" queried Maudlin. Swift anger changed the cobbler's face.
"I'll go when I see Jinnie," he insisted, sinking deeper into his chair, "I want to tell 'er somethin' about a party." "Ain't no show o' your seein' 'er to-day," replied Lafe. "I bargained with your pa about you lettin' my girl alone, and that's all there is to it." "Pa's cobblin' ain't nothin' to do with me," observed Maudlin darkly. "I'll wait for 'er!"
If you don't, take my word for it! There ain't nothin' doin' for him far's Jinnie's concerned!... I sent for you to bargain with you." Jasper pricked up his ears. The word "bargain" always attracted him. "Well?" he questioned. "You keep your boy from my girl and I'll do all your family cobblin' for nothin' till Jinnie's a woman." Bates leaned back in his chair and crossed his legs.
"I can git all I want out o' Squire's old yard. I pay him for it in the fall, cobblin'. It's no great matter, anyways." Sophy disappeared into the house, and came out again, hurriedly, with a trowel in her hand. "I don't know but I'll work a mite myself," she said, "if you was to tell me where 'twas worth while to begin." "Don't ye touch the spring things," said Jim briefly.
But the boy, who was now close at hand, still went on. 'Hush! scush! scurry! There you go in a hurry! Gobble! gobble! goblin! There you go a wobblin'; Hobble, hobble, hobblin' Cobble! cobble! cobblin'! Hob-bob-goblin! Huuuuuh! 'There! said the boy, as he stood still opposite them. 'There! that'll do for them. They can't bear singing, and they can't stand that song.
'Once there was a goblin Living in a hole; Busy he was cobblin' A shoe without a sole. 'By came a birdie: "Goblin, what do you do?" "Cobble at a sturdie Upper leather shoe." "What's the good o' that, Sir?" Said the little bird. "Why it's very Pat, Sir Plain without a word. "Where 'tis all a hole, Sir, Never can be holes: Why should their shoes have soles, Sir, When they've got no souls?"
An' for 's teetle, I was aye ane to gie honour whaur honour was due, an' never ance, weel as I kenned him, did I ca' his honest father, for gien ever there was an honest man yon was him! never did I ca' him onything but Sir George, naither mair nor less, an' that though he vroucht at the hardest at the cobblin' a' the ook, an' upo' Setterdays was pleased to hae a guid wash i' my ain bedroom, an' pit on a clean sark o' my deid man's, rist his sowl! no 'at I'm a papist, Maister Grant, an' aye kent better nor think it was ony eese prayin' for them 'at's gane; for wha is there to pey ony heed to sic haithenish prayers as that wad be?
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