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"How do you think that dog can follow us, when we're going ten miles by boat?" demanded Reddy Butts. "I don't know but the Barnacle would sprout wings and fly through the air after Purt," giggled Bobby. "It isn't the dog this time that troubles Purt deah boy!" drawled Lance Darby. "What is it?" asked Laura. "Purt's day is spoiled," declared Lance. "He has come off without his cigarettes."
"You'll 'ave to come to shore now," said the policeman, in the tone of one exhausted by long argument. "'Ere's some more parties wanting to cross." He turned to Richard. "Look 'ere, mate," he said. "I'm 'ere in the discharge of my dooty, and this ferryman is obstructin' me." "Deah, deah," said Richard.
"Marse cap'n, you gwine on a journey. Wa't yo' wife wish mo'n dat you git ready fer de journey? She tek dat journey too, bime by soon, en you bof be at de same deah home." "Ah, uncle, if that could be true, the sting of death would be gone." "Sut'ny, marse cap'n. Didn't I know dat ar w'en I mek bole ter speak? Now des tink on hit, mars'r. De worl' full ob poor folks lak me.
You see, Chicago is new." "But so is all America, isn't it?" I asked, stupidly. "What difference can a hundred or so years make?" "We haven't begun to think in centuries yet, on our side of the water, my deah." She did it by buying a Russian Prince." "Buying a " "Yes, love, he was going to the highest bidder, and she bought him.
"Do you mean ter 'low that she wuz changed in her cradle, er is she too good-lookin' to be my daughter?" "My deah Mis' Walden! it 'ud be wastin' wo'ds fer me ter say dat dey ain' no young lady too good-lookin' ter be yo' daughter; but you're lookin' so young yo'sef dat I'd ruther take her fer yo' sister." "Yas," rejoined Mis' Molly, with animation, "they ain't many years between us.
Her voice carried the air clear and true, and the faint trembling of the harp-strings interfered with the harmony no more than if a wandering breeze had been tangled in them as it passed. "Sing me the songs that to me were so deah Long, long ago, long ago. Tell me the tales I delighted to heah Long, long ago, long ago." The sweet little voice sang it to the end without missing a word.
"My deah," says one, "now I think of it, I weally don't like the setting of these diamonds that you had given you last night. It's too heavy, don't you think?" The other replies in a tone which would cheat a man, but in which you instantly detect an accent of surprise and a determination to play up to her partner as well as possible, that she "liked it very well."
Prescriptions from all the other fellows, with accounts of their own experiences." "Deah me, how appalling! Worse than a tea-party! I had no ideah men could be so dull. Nobody engaged? Nobody married? Nobody going to give a dance? No new people coming to live in the neighbourhood?" "Ha!" Mr Rendell struck an attitude of remembrance, at which the watching faces brightened with smiles.
"Yes, deah; Oh, I had the hoss in mind too; indeed I had! Do you know, my deah, I can tend to business betteh when I have ow son along? I'm gett'n' to feel like as if I'd left myself behind when he's not with me." "You've always been so, Judge March." Her smile was sad. "Oh! no, I mustn't advise. Take him along if you're determined to."
His chum, Marriot, came rushing along "Oh, deah boy, I'm so sorry you are hit cheer up, old chap." He, like the rest of us, didn't know what to say. But old Chappie didn't "go west" after all. He was ill for a long time, but was finally invalided home to Canada. While we were worrying over old Chappie a call came for volunteers to dig out some men that had been buried.
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