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What has a lone woman like me, Father Pat, to do wid sthrangers like them? jist to turn their backs on me when I ain't no furder use, and to be gitting the hights of insolence and abuse, as I did from that blagguard Barry. He'd betther keep his toe in his pump and go asy, or he'll wake to a sore morning yet, some day."
"It was this a way," he began. "There was a man here who was clerkin' in one of the stores; and one day a feller drove up and said 'hallow' and this clerk came out of the store and says, 'What is it? The traveler says, 'Here's a barl I have no use for and don't want to carry on my wagon any furder, and I'll sell it to you. And the clerk says, 'I ain't got no use for the barl. 'Well, says the traveler, 'you can have it for fifty cents, and it will accommodate me; and besides I don't want to just throw it away. So the clerk says all right, and gave him fifty cents and took the barl in the store and put it in the corner.
Wears long curls like a girl and don't want to never get his clean clo'es dirty." "I think he's a beautiful little boy," championed Lina. "Call him over here, Jimmy." "Naw, I don't want to. You all'll like him a heap better over there; he's one o' these-here kids what the furder you get 'way from 'em, the better you like 'em." "He sho' do look lonesome," said Billy; "'vite him over, Jimmy."
He go on and on, and jus' as it got dark he anchor two miles furder down. Sam make his way along through de bush and at last get facing de ship. At twelve o'clock boat come along bery quiet. Sam go down and get in. De men say, 'Hush, make no noise. De pilot am as watchful as a cat.
"Anyhow, they ain't goin' to trouble us no furder," rejoined Mosey complacently. "Theyre toes is turned up. Lis'n! that's the sound I like to hear!" The sound was the deep, heavy sough of a contented bullock, as he lay down with a couple of days' rations in his capacious first stomach. "Grass is generally a burning question with you teamsters," observed Willoughby.
And arter dey'd stayed dere a whole week 'quiring, dey was furder off from findin' out nor ebber. So dey all up and sent in a werdick as de gal was foun' wid her t'roat cut and nobody knowed who did it. Dat was de werdick. Which dey needn't o' stayed 'quiring and eaten' and drinkin' on us a whole week to tell us dat. 'Cause we knowed dat much afore.
Well, w'en we got here to Scranton I got sick, an' they wouldn't take me no furder 'cause I wasn't any good to 'em, an' they went off an' lef me, an' nex' mornin' I laid down up there along the road a-cryin' an' a-feelin' awful bad, an' then Uncle Billy, he happened to come that way, an' he foun' me an' took me home with him.
He knocked sharply; and it at length elicited an answer from the drowsy gentleman, composed of growls and abuse. "Get up!" called out Tom. "The keys of the cloisters are wanted." "Then they may be wanted!" responded old Ketch in a muffled tone, as if he were speaking from under the bed-clothes. "I'll see you all furder before you get the keys from me."
"Ain't no use goin' up any furder," said the voice of Arch Hawn; "I've looked all up this crick an' thar ain't nary a blessed sign o' coal." "All right," said the colonel, who was puffing with the climb. "That suits me I've had enough." At Jason's side, Mavis echoed his own swift breath of relief, but as the party turned, the rock-pecker stooped and rose with a black lump in his hand.
And for a few moments nothing more was heard of the little boy's woes. He plodded along silently, till just as they were approaching 'Uncle Marmy's gate' as they called it, he burst out again. 'I must have a drink, Jass. I tell you I must. Let me go and ask for one at this house. It wouldn't be naughty. I can't go any furder. The girls hesitated.
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