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"'Here! here! you'll kill him, says he, so I hauled him aboard, drippin' and clingy, wringin' him out good and thorough by the neck. He made a fine mop.
"After having passed his hand ineffectually over several, he at length announced, as he stooped over one which I recognized, from a peculiar elevation of the bow and stern, to be the same we had passed. "'Dis a one all drippin' wet, Massa Geral. May I nebber see a Hebben ib he not a same we follow.
"No offence," said Dan; "but `to resoom the thread o' the narrative, as the story books say, Mrs Niven she opened the door, and the drippin' wet sailor he puts a little wet spalpeen in her arms, an' goes right off without so much as by your lave, an' that's all we know about it.
"`Well, sir, she said, `sometimes, when very hard-up, I spend part of it this way: I buy a hap'orth o' tea, a hap'orth o' sugar, a hap'orth o' drippin', a hap'orth o' wood and a penn'orth o' bread.
There's one about a mile down this road. Couldn't you take us?" "Sure thing!" says Babe. "Torchy, you can hang on the back, can't you?" "Oh, I can walk home," says I. "No, no," says Babe, hasty. "You you'd best come along." So I helps load in the young lady and the claret drippin' youngster, drapes myself on the spare tires, and we're off. "Is it little brother?" asks Babe, glancin' at the kid.
Suddenly the door was opened from the inside, and Bachelor Billy stood there, shading his eyes with his hand and peering out into the darkness. "Ralph," he said, "is that yo' a-stannin' there i' the rain? Coom in, lad; coom in wi' ye! Why!" he exclaimed, as the boy entered the room, "ye're a' drippin' wet!" "Yes, Uncle Billy, it's a-rainin' pirty hard; I believe I I believe I did git wet."
"'E'll get over 'is fancy, bless 'is 'eart." Mrs. Slater pursued then her work of redemption. On a certain evening in November, Mrs. Carter, coming in to see her friend, invited sympathy for a very bad cold. "Drippin' and runnin' at the nose I've been all day, my dear. Awake all night I was with it, and 'tain't often that I've one, but when I do it's somethin' cruel."
She set the tea-pot before Essy. "There's a coop of tae. An' there's bread an' drippin'. Yo'll drink it oop." But Essy, desolated, shook her head. "Wall," said Mrs. Gale. "I doan' want ter look at yo. 'T mak's mae seek." As if utterly revolted by the sight of her daughter, she turned from her and left the kitchen by the staircase door.
"But it'll all rust up into great gobs if it's left any great while I don't like so much water drippin' over the place, Thirkle." "Gold don't rust, Bucky," called Petrak, and he laughed immoderately and slapped his knees with his hands. "But what better place is there, Bucky? It's getting late now, lads, and that's the best place for it."
"What's that to you?" he demanded. "And you needn't be drippin' tobacco juice around my shop." "Won't hurt it, I guess," answered Maudlin insolently, sitting down heavily. With every passing minute, Lafe was growing more and more enraged. "Yap me your business and get out," he ordered, picking up his hammer.
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