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"Rev. Leonidas W. H'm, Reverend Le well, there was a feller here, once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49 or maybe it was the spring of '50 I don't recollect exactly, somehow, though what makes me think it was one or the other is because I remember the big flume warn't finished when he first come to the camp; but anyway, he was the curiousest man about always betting on anything that turned up you ever see, if he could get anybody to bet on the other side; and if he couldn't he'd change sides.
"Well, den, if it wasn't seben years, it was as long as ebber anybody could lib dere a-fastin'!" "How did you get out at last, Katie?" "Well, now, Marse Ishmael, begging of your pardon, dat was the curiousest t'ing of all! I dunno no more how I come out'n dat dark den, nor de man in de moon!
She laughed at it, and sent word to Veronica that she was the curiousest young woman for her age that she had ever heard of; that the dog slept in the house of nights, for he was blind and deaf now; but that Crossman should get a new dog with a loud bark, if the dear child wanted it. A new dog soon came, so fierce that Abram told Temperance that people were afraid to pass Crossman's.
"He's the curiousest critter we ever had in this town." "Yes," agrees Watty, "I guess he be." At this juncture comes an interruption; Tracey Tanner returns, hot-foot. Either he has been running, or his breathlessness is due to excitement. Before the two upon the bench he pauses in agitated glee, a bearer of tremendous tidings. "Hello," he pants.
"Some folks 'as the curiousest ways o' wantin' theirselves remembered arter they're gone" he went on "An' others seems as if they don't care for no mem'ry at all 'cept in the 'arts o' their friends. Now there was Tom o' the Gleam, a kind o' gypsy rover in these parts, 'im as murdered a lord down at Blue Anchor this very year's July " Helmsley drew a quick breath. "I know!" he said "I was there!"
"My papa's got 'bout a million pipes," boasted Jimmy, "but he got 'em all to the office, I spec'." "Father has a meerschaum." "Aunt Minerva ain't got no pipe." "Miss Minerva's 'bout the curiousest woman they is," said Jimmy; "she ain't got nothing a tall; she ain't got no paint and she ain't got no pipe."
He couldn't momently name what was the curiousest thing he had seen unless it was a Unicorn and he see him once at a fair. But supposing a young gentleman not eight year old was to run away with a fine young woman of seven, might I think that a queer start? Certainly.
So I sets out on Sunday mornin', and when I seen de white tents, and heard de people singin' and shoutin', I thought it was de curiousest thing I ever seen. I got along tolerable well, talkin' to de colored folks what waited on de tables, when all at once a big horn was blowed, and everybody went off to preachin'.
An' they had the curiousest things on their heads, jist exactly like the black shingles that was flyin' 'round here the night the sawmill burned down!" "Why, they were college gowns and caps," said Sarah; "Don Neil and Allan Fraser are both going to get them." "Well, don't I know that, you young upstart. An' Mrs.
Tucker wound up meditatively, "if they ever reached the Land's End. I wonder?" "But, excuse me once more," said I. "How came the train to stop as it did?" "To be sure. I said just now that the curiousest things in life were, gen'rally speakin', the simplest.
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