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"Some is new cotches made o' the good old stand-bys, I expect," said Sister Pink-ham, and there was a comfortable silence of some minutes. "I'm kind of surprised to meet with you to-day, when all's said an' done; it kind of started me when I see 't was you, after dwellin' on you so day before yisterday," insisted Mr. Teaby; and this time Sister Pinkham took heed of the interesting coincidence.
"When I's out tendin' to things, I t'ought as how I'd sit down and rest, and 'cordin'ly I squats on a big stone. Purty soon de stone begin to move, and come to look, 'twas a big Injin. "'Heigh! says I, 'what you doin' here? "'Ugh! he grunted. "'Yes, I'll "ugh!" you, says I, 'if I cotches you here ag'in. With dat I pitches him two, free rods off, and tells him to make tracks fur home."
But you won't though; he's not in the service, and you sha'n't touch him; but I'll tell you what, keep yourself on board, Mr Leeftenant, for if I cotches you on shore, I'll make you sing in a way you don't think on. Yes, flog my Jemmy, my dear darling duck of a Jemmy stop a minute I'm coming aboard."
"What does the sheriff get for coming away up here?" "Thirty cents for each witness he cotches. He won't git me, Mister Man; not if I know these woods since yistiddy." Verily the law of Swain is hard on the solicitor, hard on the sheriff, and hard on the witness, too! Mountaineers place a low valuation on human life. I need not go outside my own habitat for illustrations.
"For I calls you t' witness this: that when I cotches them twins o' mine I'll thwack un till they're red, Tom Tot till they're red and blistered below decks. An' when I cotches that young Davy Roth when I cotches un alone, 'ithout the doctor I'll give un double watches." "We'll get underway for Wolf Cove, Skipper Tommy," said Tom Tot, "when the weather lightens.
But you won't though; he's not in the service, and you sha'n't touch him; but I'll tell you what, keep yourself on board, Mr Leeftenant, for if I cotches you on shore, I'll make you sing in a way you don't think on. Yes, flog my Jemmy, my dear, darling duck of a Jemmy stop a minute I'm coming aboard."
We'll use a rope what's long an' strong, when we cotches him. He've a case o' smallpox for'ard, An' we'll hang un, by the Lord! For he've traded every fishin' port from Conch t' Harbour Rim. "T' save the folk that dreads it, We'll hang the man that spreads it, They's lakes o' fire in hell t' sail for such as Skipper Jim!"
"I wad far rather hae ridden the black mare than go into ane o' thae things," said Mr Adair, looking contemptuously at the couple of chaises that stood at the door. "I never was fond o' ridin in cotches a' my life. Nasty, rattlin, jinglin things. Ane micht as weel be shut up in a corn kist as in ane o' them."
"The old man wouldn't say any thing of that kind, Jacko." "The old man! He knows nothing about it. My word! they don't tell him about nothing." "Or Tom?" "Tom's away in prison. They always cotches the best when they want to send 'em to prison. If they'd lock up Jerry and Georgie and Jack! My word! yes." "You think they're arranging it all at Boolabong?" "In course they are."
"Dot ish one good things as nefer vos," Otto took occasion to say, while panting close behind him: "dere ish not so many of demi blagued vines dot cotches me all de times ven I vos oh mine gracious!" As is too often the case, the lad rejoiced too soon, for the words were yet in his mouth when the very mishap he referred to overtook him.
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