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I'm a poor boy, but I don't work an hour and a half for two cents, one of 'em bad. I'd rather take no pay at all." "That's a cur'us boy," said the deacon, slowly sliding the pennies back into his pocket. "I calc'late he expected more just for a little job like that. Does he think I'm made of money?"
"'I found this 'ere cur'us lookin' thing, he said, 'under a walnut-tree on the hill yonder, where I was rakin' up leaves an', thinks I, there's some kind of a crittur stored away inside, an' Miss Ruth she's crazy arter bugs an' worms an' sich like varmints, an' mebbe she'd like to see what comes out o' this 'ere; so I've fetched it along.
"'Pears to me they had pow'ful cur'us ways uv fightin'. Think uv a feller, when he feels like takin' a scalp, comin' out before the hull army an' beatin' a big brass shield till it rattled like a tin pan, an' then, when he got 'em all to lookin' an' listenin', hollerin' at the top uv his voice, 'I'm A-Killus, Defyer uv the Lightnin', Slayer uv the Trojans, the terriblest fighter the world ever seed!
"Oh, Dumps, you play so cur'us," said Diddie; "who ever heard of anybody bein' named Mrs. Dumps? there ain't no name like that." "Well, I don't know nothin' else," said Dumps; "I couldn't think of nothin'." "Sposin' you be named Mrs. Washington, after General Washington?" said Diddie, who was now studying a child's history of America, and was very much interested in it.
"That's cur'us. A man come ridin' 'long here three or four weeks ago. Mebbe he was a lightnin' rod agent an' mebbe he had patent medicines to sell, he didn't say, but he did tell me that General Jackson was in one place an General Lee was in another. Now which army do you mean?" "That was nearly a month ago. They are together now."
Y'u air as cur'us to him as one o' them bugs an' sich-like that he's always a-pickin' up in the woods. I hevn't said nuthin' to yer dad, fer fear o' his harmin' the furriner; but I hev seed that ye like him, an' hit's time now fer me to meddle. Ef he was in love with ye, do ye think he would marry ye? I hev been in the settle-mints. Folks thar air not as we citizens air.
It's cur'us how you kin do that sometimes, ef you want to hard enough." "I think," said Henry, "that they're going to try the flankers now. I can see the leaders talking to warriors whom they've called to 'em." "And does that mean that it's time fur us to light out?" asked Shif'less Sol. "Not yet.
Cur'us how quick a rain can do it in spring, when everything is just waitin' a chance to grow, and bust into bloom. I've rid on the plains when everything was brown an' looked dead. 'Long come a big rain an' the next day everything was green as far as the eye could reach an' you'd see little flowers bloomin' down under the shelter of the grass."
She's cur'us, 'n' thar's no two ways about it. An' Hamp he gives a bit of a laugh kinder mad, 'n' he ses, 'Yes, she's cur'us cur'us as ! May be he felt kinder roughed up about her yet but I hed to laugh." The next morning Miss Noble devoted to letter-writing.
I can't say I know why Bill's bo't that claim, but I'll say this: I'd a heap sooner foller his money than any other man's. I've sure got a notion we best do our laffin' right now." "That's so," agreed Joe Brand reluctantly. "Bill's a cur'us feller. He's so mighty cur'us I ain't got much use for him personal.
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