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She'll be better off a deal wi' thee, and she can see our Emma every day then. So dry thy eyes, little un; it'll be all right, thou sees." "But, Father, you'll not do without me!" "Don't thee be conceited, lass." Old Dan was trying hard to swallow a lump in his throat. "I'll see thee by nows and thens. Thou'll be a deal better off. And there's there's El'nor."
She was turned into a wild dragon, all o'er claws and teeth, and there was three little dragons behind her, and they was all a-top o' me together. If El'nor hadn't thought better on't, and come and stood by me, there wouldn't have been much o' me to bring these here." "Then you did not run, Uncle Dan?" replied Avice. "She clutched me, lass!" responded Dan, with awful solemnity.
"Didn't offer good enough; and She" by which pronoun he usually designated his vixenish wife "wouldn't hear on it. Emma's bound, worse luck! I could ha' done wi' Emma. She and Bertha's the only ones as can be peaceable, like me." "Mildred's still at home, then?" "Mildred's at home yet. And so's El'nor, and so's Susanna, and so's Ankaret; and every one on 'em's tongue's worse nor t'other.
But I'll tell thee what if some o' them fighting fellows as goes up and down a-seeking for adventures, 'd just take off Ankaret and Mildred well, I don't know about El'nor: she's been better o' late and eh, but they couldn't take Her, or I'd ha' given th' cow into th' bargain, and been right glad on't and if me and Emma and Bertha could ha' settled down in a bit of a house somewhere, and been peaceable Come, it's no use hankering over things as can't be.
"Could you spare a chap a seat, think ye?" said he. "I've come for a bit o' peace. We've got thunder and lightning and rain up at smithy. She's thunder, and Ankaret's lightning, and Mildred's rain, for she's a-crying: and El'nor and me, we 're wet to skin wi' 't. So I put my cap on and come here to dry me a bit." Avice laughed. "You're always welcome, Uncle Dan, and I hope you know it," said she.
"Think of an old cow-boss like me living up to these jimmy-cracks!" As they went to their room together, she made a confession: "The thing that scares me worst is eating. I've et at the Alma times enough, but to handle a fork here with El'nor Redfield lookin' on! Great peter! ain't there some way of takin' my meals out in the barn? I wouldn't mind you and Ross and Reddy it's the missis."
"You did not 'bide so long!" with a grim smile. "Long enough," said the priest shortly. "I believe you! If you wasn't glad to get your back turned, you liked a tussle wi' a dragon better nor most folks. El'nor, she came down to me while you was in there, wi' a hunch o' bread and cheese, and she said it were gettin' smoother a bit nor it had been most part o' th' day. What said she to you?"
She's better to take when first comings-off is done. She'll smooth down i' th' even, as like as not, and then I'll send El'nor o'er wi' the little maid's bits o' gear. Or, if she willn't go, I can bring 'em myself, when work's done. Let's get it o'er afore She finds aught out!" Avice scarcely knew whether to laugh or to be sorry. Poor, weak, easy-tempered Dan!
"If she's not changed sin' I come fro' dinner, she'll be a-top of you before you can say `mercy. And she's none a comfortable thing to have a-top of you, I give you fair warning." "How was she at supper, then? no better?" "Supper! I durstn't go in for no supper. I likes hunger better nor a fray. Happen El'nor 'll steal out to me with a crust after dark. She does, sometimes."
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