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Flemin', you nor nobody else ain't goin' to cast no slurs onter Mrs.
"Yeh jest oughta heard!" repeated the other, and he arranged himself to tell his tidings. The others made an excited circle. "Well, sir, th' colonel met your lieutenant right by us it was damnedest thing I ever heard an' he ses: 'Ahem! ahem! he ses. 'Mr. Hasbrouck! he ses, 'by th' way, who was that lad what carried th' flag? he ses. There, Flemin', what d' yeh think 'a that?
"Yeh jest oughta heard!" repeated the other, and he arranged himself to tell his tidings. The others made an excited circle. "Well, sir, th' colonel met your lieutenant right by us it was damnedest thing I ever heard an' he ses: 'Ahem! ahem! he ses. 'Mr. Hasbrouck! he ses, 'by th' way, who was that lad what carried th' flag? he ses. There, Flemin', what d' yeh think 'a that?
I allers did think you might a writ a book if you'd set about it, an' if you'd put such readin' as that kind of talk into it, I'll be boun' it would bring a lot of money, an' I'm right glad the little young ladies is comin', on'y I wish Amandy Flemin' hadn't hit the same time."
Flemin', don't mind, an' if you've a min' to compose your feelin's in the kitchen just step in an' I'll fit your dress soon's Jane's business is over." But Mrs. Fleming had no idea of retiring to privacy to compose her "feelin's;" she preferred to indulge them in public, and she sat still, sobbing only the louder.
He has nowther balm o' grace nor pith o' damnation. "Yon laad Flemin', 'at preached i' the Baillies' Barn aboot the dowgs gaein' roon' an' roon' the wa's o' the New Jeroozlem, gien he had but hauden thegither an' no gean to the worms sae sune, wad hae dung a score o' 'im.
'Who was th' lad what carried th' flag? he ses, an' th' lieutenant, he speaks up right away: 'That's Flemin', an' he's a jimhickey, he ses, right away. What? I say he did. 'A jim-hickey, he ses those 'r his words. He did, too. I say he did. If you kin tell this story better than I kin, go ahead an' tell it. Well, then, keep yer mouth shet.
"There was only three of us besides you and Billy that escaped; and that was me, Dirk here, and a chap named Flemin' Pete, we used to call 'im. When the ship struck we was all washed overboard by the first sea as broke aboard; and nat'rally those of us as could swim struck out as soon as our heads rose above water. And but, I say, Mister, ain't there no breakfast knockin' about?
'Who was th' lad what carried th' flag? he ses, an' th' lieutenant, he speaks up right away: 'That's Flemin', an' he's a jimhickey, he ses, right away. What? I say he did. 'A jimhickey, he ses those 'r his words. He did, too. I say he did. If you kin tell this story better than I kin, go ahead an' tell it. Well, then, keep yer mouth shet.
Flemin' I'd fit hers, so she could make it herself an' she shouldn't have to do no expenses about it, for it's on'y right we should all lend a helpin' hand, an' where would me an' the Richardses be if your folks hadn't thought the same an' acted accordin', which there's never a night on my bended knees I don't ask the Almighty's blessin' on you, an' there's none more deserves it, an' I do b'lieve the dear Lord's of the same way of thinkin', for there's none as I see happier nor more prosperin' an' does one's heart good to see it, an' never will I forget the night we was in such a peck of troubles an' seein' no way out of 'em me an' the Richardses, an' your pa comin' in an' turnin' the tide, an' since then, yes, ever since, all goin' so comfortable an' pleasant with us.
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