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"But you'll hev times of trouble an' doubt, off an' on." "Is that so?" asked the captain, thoughtfully. "Yes," continued Mrs. Simmons; "but don't be afeard; ev'ry thing'll come right in the end. I know I've been through it all." "That's so," said the captain, "you hev that. Well, now, would you mind interdoosin' me to your minister?" "Mind!" said the good old lady.
If they take it in turns to mind the carriage when it's a waitin' below," he says, "wot's to hinder you from operatin' on both of 'em ev'ry day as well as upon me? you've got six children," he says, "wot's to hinder you from shavin' all their heads and keepin' 'em shaved? you've got two assistants in the shop down-stairs, wot's to hinder you from cuttin' and curlin' them as often as you like?
And then the would-be poet continued: "The sun comes up and it is morn, The farmer goes to plow his corn, The watchdog, watching through the day, Keeps ev'ry tramp and thief away." And be it night or be it day " "The watchdog's there, and there to stay!" continued Tom, and then on: "The watchdog, watching in his sleep, Catches each flea and makes him weep!"
Fixin' fer Christmas dinner, Emarine dear?" "Yes, ma'am," said Emarine in her very gentlest tone. Her mother had never said "dear" to her, and the sound of it on this old lady's lips was sweet. "Won't you come an' take dinner with us?" The old lady laughed merrily. "Oh, dearie me, dearie me! You don't guess my son's folks could spare me now, do you? I spend ev'ry Christmas there.
Sweet rang the glorious praises in ears of Creon's lovers. But I, when upward gazing, beheld a sight more wondrous. The gates of high Olympos were open wide and clanging, Deserted ev'ry palace, the golden city empty. And all the gods were gathered above Olympia's race-course, They smiled upon my Creon and gifts upon him showered. From golden Aphrodite dropped half a hundred graces.
His voice quavered, however, and he gulped. "It's thet scalawag, an' he wanted us t' know it! Ain't ev'ry Injun in fifty mile shet up tight in yon corral? Ev'ry one 'cept Charley an' this ain't the job o' thet blamed fool. No, siree! An' then, th' mules didn' make no row las' night. They'd a shore snorted if it was Injuns " "I guess that's so," agreed Dallas, hastily, and made him a warning sign.
The' was a big crowd, an' while most on 'em come to be edified, the' was quite a lot in the back part of the place that was ready fer anythin'. Wa'al, it happened that standin' mixed up in that lot was a feller named we'll call him Smith, to be sure of him an' Smith was jest runnin' over with power, an' ev'ry little while when somethin' the speaker said touched him on the funny bone he'd out with an "A men!
There you be," he continued, "stuck up four five feet up in the air like a clo'espin, havin' your backbone chucked up into your skull, an' takin' the skin off in spots an' places, expectin' ev'ry next minute the critter'll git out f'm under ye no, sir," he protested, "if it come to be that it was either to ride a hossback fer the fun o' the thing or have somebody kick me, an' kick me hard, I'd say, 'Kick away. It comes to the same thing fur 's enjoyment goes, and it's a dum sight safer."
"Yet think not long, I will my Rival bear, Or unreveng'd the slighted Willow wear; The gloomy, brooding Tempest now confin'd, Within the hollow Caverns of my Mind, In dreadful Whirl, shall rowl along the Coasts, Shall thin the Land of all the Men it boasts, And cram up ev'ry Chink of Hell with Ghosts.
You git fooler an' fooler ev'ry day you live, I do believe." Uncle Ethan attempted a defense. "Well, he paid me twenty-five dollars f'r it, anyway." "Did 'e?" She was visibly affected by this news. "Well, anyhow, it amounts to that; he give me twenty-five bottles" Mrs. Ripley sank back in her chair. "Well, I swan to Bungay!
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