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"Wal, sir, I s'pose them fellers roped in every man in this town. I don't s'pose they got out with a cent less'n one thousand dollars. An' when the book come wal!" Here he stopped to roar. "I don't s'pose you ever see a madder lot o' men in your life. In the first place, they got the names and the pitchers mixed so that I was Judge Ricker, an' Judge Ricker was ol' man Daggett.
Not but what Lacy ain't right," he added quickly, "when he sez that the opposition the 'Guardian' gets here comes from ignorant low-down fellers ez wos brought up in played-out camps, and can't tell a gentleman and a scholar and a scientific man when they sees him. No!
There's people that zee things, tu, an' others that don't never zee nothin'. Now, our Joe yu might putt anything under'is eyes an e'd never zee it; and them other boys, tu, they'm rattlin' fellers. But yu take an' putt our Megan where there's suthin', she'll zee it, an' more tu, or I'm mistaken." "She's sensitive, that's why." "What's that?" "I mean, she feels everything." "Ah!
"If only I had the resolution," said he, "I wouldn't take nothing that Parky could sell." "When we git you once talkin' 'if-only, the bluff is called," replied the smith, with a grin. "Now what are you needin' at the shack?" "You rich fellers want to run the whole shebang," objected Jim, by way of an easy capitulation.
"And that reminds me," he went on, "we fellers has got to have the funds, Aleck. We'll need money more'n you will now. Here!" He stooped over and began to feel in Aleck's coat, drew out a heavy wallet, and began to transfer the bills to his own pocket. "I'll leave you a hundred and fifty. That's enough," said he. "No telling what we fellers'll have to do before we get out of this.
Every dinner hour there's a feller, different fellers most all the time, gets up and hands 'em out an address. It's short, but red hot. The afternoon shift in the mill is given up to brightening up their fool brains on it.
He snorted indignantly, but further discussion was prevented by the entrance of the letter-carrier, and immediately Abe and Morris forgot their differences in an examination of the numerous letters that were the fruit of the advertisement. "Don't let's waste no time over fellers we don't know nothing about, Abe," Morris suggested as he tossed one envelope into the waste-paper basket.
"Wat are you goin' to do with that wen you get through with it?" asked the latter avariciously. "I'm going to give it to you, of course." "Say, I'm much obliged fer that," replied the smith delightedly. "Gee, the wife'll be tickled to see that. You're a artist, ain't cher? I hearda them fellers. I never saw one. Gee, that's good, that looks just like me, don't it?"
"Got to have committee," said Jerry "committee go see boss." "All right, but we'll get young fellows for that too men who have no families. Some of the fellows who live in the chicken-coops in shanty-town. They won't care what happens to them." But Jerry would not share Hal's smile. "No got sense 'nough, them fellers. Take sense to stick together."
"Leastwise that's Jethro's philosophy. When you come to know him, you'll notice how much those fellers walk like him. Never seed a man who had so many imitators. Some of,'em's took to talkie' like him, even to stutterin'. Bijah Bixby, over to Clovelly, comes pretty nigh it, too." Moses loaded his sugar and beans into his wagon, and drove off.
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