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Uncle Nimbus," said Berry, very thoughtfully, "dat dis yer ting freedom waz a durn curus affair fer we cullud people, ennyhow?" "Did it ever? Wal, now, I should tink it hed, an' hit 'ccurs ter me now dat it's growin' quarer an' quarer ebbery day. Though I'se had less on't ter bear an' puzzle over than a-most enny on ye, dat I hez, I don't know whar it'll wuk out.
"Tell me one thing, Ethelindy," he said, lifting his bleared eyes as he clasped his tremulous hands more firmly on the head of his stick "tell me this which side air you-uns on, ennyhow, Ethelindy?" "I'm fur the Union," said Ethelinda, still weeping, and now and then wiping her sapphire eyes with the back of her hand, hard and tanned, but small in proportion to her size.
"Look-a-hyar, bub," said Jubal Perkins, with both hands in his pockets and glaring down solemnly at Rufe; "ef ever I ketches ye goin' of yerrands no better'n that ag'in, I'm a-goin' ter TAN that thar hide o' yourn." Rufe gazed up deprecatingly, his eyes widening at the prospect. Byers broke into a horse laugh. "We've been wantin' some leetle varmints fur tanning ennyhow," he said.
She called after him and suggested that perhaps he might like to have the marriage first and go with them, taking the excursion as a wedding trip. She would gladly pay all expenses if he would. But the man shook his head. "I couldn't leave the stock fer that long, ennyhow you fix it. Thur ain't no one would know to take my place.
The trees far below waved in the wind, and a faint dryadic sibilant singing sounded a measure or so, and grew fainter in the lulling of the breeze, and sunk to silence. "Ennyhow," persisted Hite, "won't sech yearth gin out light somehows, in some conditions sech ez ye talk 'bout?" he added vaguely. "Spontaneously?
He was in his own place now, his hands trembling as they lay on the arms of his chair; a pathetic reproach was in his voice. "Though old folks oughtn't ter expec' too much o' young ones, ez be all tuk up naterally with tharse'fs," he added, bravely. He would not let his past lonely griefs mar the bright present. "Old folks air mos'ly cumber-ers mos'ly cumberers o' the yearth, ennyhow."
God bless yer, Mose, an' ef my blessin's no account, it can't cuss yer, ennyhow. This claim's washed out, fellers, an' here goes the last shovelful, to see ef ther's enny gold in it er not." And Billy departed this life, and the boys drank to the repose of his soul. He suited the natives exactly. What they would have done had he not been available, they shuddered to contemplate.
"'Kase," he argued sagely, "ef them skeered-ter-death grown folks war ter find out ez I war the harnt I mean ez the harnt war me ennyhow," he concluded desperately, "I'd KETCH it sure!" So impressed was he with this idea that he discreetly held his tongue. And from that day to this, Jonas Creyshaw and his friends have been unable to solve the mystery of Old Daddy's Window.
H'yer I'se got lemme see one two tree! Fo' God, I don' know how many names I hez got! I'm dod-dinged now ef I know who I be ennyhow. Ef ennybody ax me I'd jes hev ter go back ter ole Mahs'r's name an' stop, kase I swar I wouldn't know which ob de udders ter pick an' chuse from.
"Carlsen says that the skipper's life is in his hands," he said, still evading Lund's direct question. "What do you make of that?" "I don't know what to make of it," answered Lund. "If it is, God help the skipper! I reckon he's in a bad way. Ennyhow, he's out of it for the time bein', Rainey. I don't think he'll be present at the meetin' if he's that ill. Carlsen speaks for him.
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