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"Feed him them," said Mrs. Patterson, "and you'll be like to hear some real yellin'. What he's doin' now hain't nothin' but his objectin' to you a-carryin' him like he was a horse blanket.... You wait right there till I git a bottle of milk. And I'll fix you some sugar in a rag that you kin put into his mouth if he acts uneasy. It'll quiet him right off." "Much 'bleeged.
An', that may be more'n of a job than straightenin' crooked rails what the storm washed away, as I must be doin' to onct. Too big a job to be tacklin' on empty stummicks, betoken; so here, the two of yez, fall in an' taste this bread an' meat an' couple o' cold spuds, an' let me get on to me own affairs."
Why do you always go to extremes?" "To please you!" he hollered out from under his blinders. "Jest to please you, mom!" Sez I, "Josiah Allen, you know you did it for fashion, so why lay it off onto me? But," sez I, "if you'll keep still I'll fix it all right." "Keep still!" sez he, "I don't see any prospect of my doin' anything else when I can't see an inch from my nose."
You know it better'n me. What was it you done with your own hands to Louis Borgen, the hoss-rustler, back ten years ago?" A dead voice answered Glendin: "What has set you on the trail of Bard?" "His own wrong doin'." The rancher waved a hand of careless dismissal. "I know you, Glendin," he said. The deputy stirred in his chair, and then cleared his throat.
If her dear husband could but see that! He's off in his heroics- -he want to be doin' all sorts o' things: I say he'll never do anything grander than that baby. You should 'a seen her uncle over that baby he came here, for I said, you shall see your own family, my dear, and so she thinks. He come, and he laughed over that baby in the joy of his heart, poor man! he cried, he did.
The other day I met him rigged out almost like a hobo, but he still had a dress-suit vest on. When I asked him what he was doin', he said: "Nothin' at present, but I got a promise of a job enrollin' voters at Citizens' Union head-quarters." Yes, a dress Suit had brought him that low! I'll tell you another case right in my own Assembly District.
Horace found me sitting on the stone fence which there divides our possessions; I think he had been observing me with amusement for some time before I saw him, for when I looked around his face wore a comfortably superior, half-disdainful smile. "David," said he, "what ye doin' here?" "Harvesting my crops," I said. He looked at me sharply to see if I was joking, but I was perfectly sober.
"Is that it?" said the King. "It's that divil Naggeneen that's in it. I told him he could bother them a little if he liked, but not to bother them too much, and now he's drivin' them and their neighbors out of the counthry, and we all have to suffer for it. He'll make it up to us in some way, if they go, or I'll take it out of him. Come here, Naggeneen! What are ye doin' down there by yourself?
"Say now, Hermy," he went on, and his voice grew almost wheedling, "there was a guy here the other night a stranger, I guess one o' these tired, sleepy guys one o' the reg'lar soft-talkin' nancy-boys who is he?" Hermione only sighed wearily, whereat his voice grew hoarse with passion, and he questioned her fiercely: "Who is he, eh who is he? What was he doin' around here, anyway?
"Yes yes, I know you did. But, Shadrach, if she don't stay here for good where will she stay? She ain't got anybody else to go to." "She is stayin', ain't she? She she's makin' us a visit, same as I said she could. What more do you want? Jumpin' fire! This fix is your doin' anyway. 'Tain't mine. If you had paid attention to what I said, the child wouldn't have been here at all." "Now, Shadrach!
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