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"An', ladies an' gents, in concloodin' I'll say that that hain't all! Follerin' these here contests, after each an' every lady an' gent has had time to git their drink they'll be a supper dished out at the hootel fer which the directors of the bank of which you have already heard mention of has put up fifty cents a plate.
She looked at it an' then at me kinder scared like. "'Sol, says she, 'is this all? An' what's the matter with ye? Ye've been drinkin'! "'Only a few drops with the b'ys, Annie, says I, but I didn't tell her it had been a-goin' on fer some time. "'Don't ye do it any more, Sol, says she. 'Remember the little uns, an'' then her voice kinder quavered, 'the habit may grow upon ye.
His sense of sublimity was keen, and, besides his natural love for such scenes, he had a hobbyist passion for virgin nature superadded. "What a magnificent country!" he cried. "Talkin' sense!" muttered Jim. "Never seed so good a place fer stagin' in my day." For every man sees through his own eyes.
She's be'n thinkin' about goin' away somewhere an' tryin' to git a school to teach, er somethin', sence the Yankees have started 'em everywhere for po' white folks an' niggers too. But I don't like fer her to go too fur." "With such beauty and brains," continued Warwick, "she could leave this town and make a place for herself. The place is already made.
Now I ast you, Gay, as man to man, if you'd know'd we was goin' to be ast to ante up fer her grub stake, wot could you ha' done him handsome an' moderate fer?" Gay squared his fat shoulders. For the moment he was important. Moments of importance are always precious, even in places like Barnriff.
I try to hold up before them the right and the good and the clean and beautiful." "Humph!" exclaimed the old man, and a look of suspicion flashed across his dusky face. "I want you to preach fer me Sunday." It was as if he had said, "I have no faith in your style of preaching the gospel. I am going to put you to the test." Robert faltered.
It was a fine, cold day, an' the snow was good an' hard, an' I set out to hunt an old bull moose that was runnin' with its mates in the location. I took two neches with me, an' we had a slap-up time fer nigh on to a week. We hunted them moose hard the whole time, but never came up wi' 'em. Then it came on to storm, an' we pitched camp in a thick pine forest.
"That night they camps, feelin' considerable blue, fer ther's mighty little water left an' they've come too far ter go back. But in ther distance thar's a big mountain and they make up their minds they'll find water thar or bust and wither on the desert. "Ther next evening, more dead than alive, they reaches the mountain and finds a little spring.
"Gimme that poke!" blazed the girl, and the boy laughed, for the word has almost passed from the vocabulary of the Blue-grass. He held it high. "Jump for it!" he teased. "I hain't goin' to jump fer it hit's mine." Her hands clenched and she started slowly toward him.
"Peter ain't very bright, sometimes, it seems to me," he added, brokenly; "overlook Bodeffer and Fisbee and me and all of us old husks, and and " he gulped suddenly, then finished "and act the fool and take a boy that's the best we had. I wish the Almighty would take Peter off the gate; he ain't fit fer it." When the attorney reached the spot where the crowd was thickest, way was made for him.
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