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The child trudged upstairs, and entered Dolly's room. "What do you want?" and Dolly, with suspiciously bright eyes, looked up from the book she was pretending to read. "You're not so awful polite, either," and Genie's big, black eyes looked sharply at Dolly. "But never mind. I've come over to tell you that Dot's cryin' about you." "Did she tell you to come?" "Nope. She don't know I'm here.
Wal, lately de gal don't 'pear to be doin' even as well as usual, an' de folks dey got plumb scared she ac' so queer like. Sometime in de night, Jake an' Mandy dey waked up hearin' a moanin' an' a cryin' in de po'r gal's room.
She's been bawled at, and sworn at enough too, and her that gentle and pleasant." "She's cryin' in her room now," said the housemaid, dabbin' her eyes with her handkerchief and wishin' he'd come up and rage over anything." "O, is she?" said the cook. "I'll bet she's not. The house is so quiet it makes her nervous that's all! But she'll get used to it.
"Crawl to the hole, dear, an' squint down at my dress." A little scramble and a face peered down upon her, "Ye been a cryin', Andy," said Tess, a break in her voice. "What ye been a cryin' fer, honey?" "Seem's if Waldstricker air goin' to take ye away from my pal an' me." Daddy Skinner gave a grunt with no articulate word in it.
She'd promise she wouldn't. An' she'd try, she'd try, oh, so hard, to be proper an' dignified. "She got up then an' went out of the room so quiet an' still you wouldn't know she was movin'. But I heard her up in her room cryin' half an hour later, when I stopped a minute at her door to see if she was there. An' she was. "But she wasn't cryin' by night. Not much she was!
Lord, I could tell you stories about the English, that would make even them cryin' devils the Mississippi crocodiles laugh, if they was to hear 'em." "Pardon me, Mr. Slick," I said, "this is not the temper with which you should visit England." "What is the temper," he replied with much warmth, "that they visit us in? Cuss 'em!
I was dwalling then in my faither's house; and it's a curious thing that we were whiles trysted in the Deil's Hags. And do ye no think that I have mind of the bonny simmer days, the lang miles o' the bluid-red heather, the cryin' o' the whaups, and the lad and the lassie that was trysted? Do ye no think that I mind how the hilly sweetness ran about my hairt? Ay, Mr.
"At th' eend o' th' first year th' child wur born, th' little lad here," touching the turf with his hand, "'Wee Wattie' his mother ca'd him, an' he wur a fine, lightsome little chap. He filled th' whole house wi' music day in an' day out, crowin' an' crowin' an' cryin' too sometime.
I felt bad 'cause 'cause you said if I didn't stop cryin' and be a good girl, you wouldn' ever have anythin' to do with me any more. But I did stop, and I have been a good girl since, haven't I?" "Yes, oh, yes, you've been good since," bending down to tuck Polly in. As she stooped, Polly flung her arms around Jane's neck, and whispered, "Do you love me just the same, Jane?"
They's just exactly, preecisely, nor nothin' more or anythin' less'n twenty-eight eggs in the pail, an' they cost, every danged last one of 'em, just exactly seven great big round iron dollars a throw. If you stand in cryin' need of any further items of information, I'm willin' and free to impart." "Go on," Smoke requested. "Well, that geezer you was dickerin' with is a big buck Indian.
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