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"Ye'll be satisfied when ye read the name; it's plain eneuch; ye needna gang dodderin' aboot here and there lookin' for yir glasses; there's twa pair on your head already"; for it was an hour of triumph to Barbara's genial soul. "It's beyond understanding," murmured the Rabbi.
I've thought like those books, and talked like them, until I seem to be like them; and, Daddy, the day Mr. Devant came home, he found me in his library-room, reading his books!" "Gawd!" ejaculated Billy, and stood stock still. "Did he fling ye out, neck and crop?" he gasped at last. "Daddy! he's a nice old gentleman!" "Old? He ain't dodderin' yet. An' he use t' have a bit of pepper in his nater.
Me who has busted better men than you all my life, me who has got my hooks in you deep already, me who ain't no pulin' ol' dodderin' softy to turn over to a lazy, shiftless vagabond all I've piled up year after year. Buck me, would you?
Old Gaffer be over proud o' findin' ye, but old Gaffer be dodderin' dodderin' 'e be, an' fulish wi' years; 'e'd ha' done much better to ha' left ye alone I've heerd o' folk sellin' theirselves to the devil afore now, I've likewise heerd o' the 'Evil Eye' afore now ah! an' knows one when I sees it." "Nonsense!" said I sternly, "nonsense! This talk of ghosts and devils is sheer folly.
Has she flew away?" he whispered. The skipper sprang to his feet with an oath. "Mermaid?" he cried. "Ye dodderin' fool ye! She bes no more a mermaid nor any fat wench in Chance Along! Has she flew, ye say! How to hell kin a mermaid fly? Wid her tail? Ye bes a true man, Nick, or I'd bat ye over the nob for yer trouble. She bes a poor young woman saved from a wrack, as well ye know.
"No the little girl and her mother won't stand for it, and, besides, what's the use? I don't need to do it, and if I'm ever going to see the world now is my chance. I'm goin' back East to discover how many brothers and sisters I have livin'. The old father is dodderin 'round somewheres back there. I'll surprise him, too.
You ought to be ashamed a couple of up-to-date financiers like you two, pickin' on an' old man that's just dodderin' around in his second childhood." Wentworth flushed hot at the grin that accompanied the words. "To hell with McNabb and you, too!" he cried angrily, and carrying the canoe into the water, he placed his pack in it.
''Ere I be, Lord! I'll say. ''Ere I be, thy poor old servant' but oh, Peter! if I could be sure o' that theer old rusty stapil bein' took first, why then I'd go j'yful j'yful, but why theer be that old fule Amos Lord! what a dodderin' old fule 'e be, an' theer be Job, an' Dutton they be comin' to plague me, Peter, I can feel it in my bones.
"That's what I should do to a child," she added, "and nobody could act more childish than you have this afternoon." "Second childhood, Serena. Second childhood and dodderin' old age are creepin' over me fast. There!" as the lamp blazed and the parlor was illuminated, "now you can see for yourself. Do I dodder much?" Even Gertrude was obliged to laugh. "Daddy!" she cried; "you silly thing!
"Ye 'll be satisfied when ye read the name; it's plain eneuch; ye needna gang dodderin' aboot here and there lookin' for yir glasses; there's twa pair on your head already;" for it was an hour of triumph to Barbara's genial soul. "It's beyond understanding," murmured the Rabbi.
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