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D'yuh reckon that theah was evah ary white man, ceptin' he were sick er asleep, that passed in his chips to sech a passd o' pulin' polecats like this yeah bunch we've jes' been bendin' ouah guns ovah? Gawd! Ken, I'll stink o' gawlic fer a week!
"No, madam. Do I look like a gambler?" "You can't tell by looks, young man," she asserted, still suspicious, "Maybe you're on spec', then, in some other way." "I am seeking health in the West, is all, where the climate is high and dry." "My Gawd!" she blurted. "High and dry! You're goin' to the right place. For all I hear tell, Benton is high enough and dry enough.
"The laundry's on fire!" he cried; "the laundry building's a-caught!" I remember his odd expression "a-caught," and wanting to laugh, but finding my face rigid and inflexible. "The devil's about again, s'help me Gawd!" he cried, in a voice thin with terror, running about in circles. And then the group on the stairs scattered as at the sound of a shot, and the Colonel and Dr.
"Did you ever hear o' my tellin' the Hawns anything about you Honeycutts?" he asked quietly, and old Aaron had to shake his head. "Well, if I tol' you anything about them to-day, don't you know I'd be tellin' them something about you to-morrow?" Old Aaron scratched his head. "By Gawd, boys that's so. Let him pass!"
It was a severe ordeal for one who, up till then, had never even known what it meant to receive a severe verbal scolding; for one who had never seen a man's hand lifted in anger. An end came at last to this horrible drive. "Thank Gawd, 'ere's 'orley!" said the man who drove; and after another minute or two the little cart came to a standstill in a walled-in yard.
That he was out of breath, panting in hard painful gasps, might indicate that he had run like a hare across the field. He could not remember; anyhow here he was, a little out of hell, just fringing it as it were. Lying close to earth, between the smooth pawpaw stems, the large leaves making a night-time for him, Steve felt deadly sick. "O Gawd! why'd I volunteer in, seein' I can't volunteer out?"
You get so weary of perpetual glaring sunshine, and unchanging blue sky. There seems to be no variety and no rest, I remember as I landed from the trooper at Southampton after the South African war, hearing a Tommy say with a sigh of relief, 'Thank Gawd for a blooming grey sky, and I quite agreed with him." "I love the sunshine," said Marion, "and certainly we don't get too much of it here."
He thumps me fore 'an' aft, firing a volley of questions, lookin' up the roof of m' mouth, and squintin' at m' finger nails an' teeth like I was a prize horse for sale. Then he sits still, lookin' at me for about half a minute, till I begin t' feel uncomfortable. Then he says, slow: 'Young man, how old are you? "'O, twenty-eight or so, I says, airy. "'My Gawd! said he.
She drew herself up proudly, though the tears were still coursing down her cheeks. "So he gin me a present a whole passel o' coffee in my milk-piggin." Then to complete a candid confession she detailed the disposition she had made of this rare and precious luxury at the rebel smallpox camp. His eyes seemed to dilate as they gazed up at her. "Jesus Gawd!" he exclaimed, with uncouth profanity.
From point to haft the steel was as red as if it had been dipped in a pail of paint. Indeed, being dry, it looked not unlike paint. But Racey knew that it was not paint. "It was dry before it was wrapped in that undershirt," he said to himself, testing the blood on the blade with a speculative fingernail. "There ain't a mark on the undershirt. Gawd!
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