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My father he got fightin' mad when he was drunk, and pitched me down two flights of 'em, and my back was most clean broke in two, so I couldn't git out o' bed forever, till just now." "Why, poor child, who took care of you?" "Mother she minded me when she warn't out washin'." "And did she send you here to-day?" "Well! however could she, bein' as how she's dead? I s'posed you knowed that.
"Guess I ain't daft, Rube." "No." The man spoke as though his answer were the result of deliberate thought. Then he cleared his throat, took a long final pull at his pipe, removed it from his mouth, held it poised in the manner of one who has something of importance to say, and sat bolt upright. "Then I guess we ken git right on."
If you don't b'lieve it ask Moncrossen ask Moncrossen, I mean, if he didn't have no booze along he must 'a' been drunk an' him crippled thataway! "Oh, Lordy, Lord! I ain't supposed to know it was the greener, let alone he was crippled! I'm all mixed up a'ready! They better not go askin' me questions lessen they want to git me hung Goda'mi'ty! I'd ort to done like Moncrossen said!"
Margaret was conscious of a sudden pang at this grouping of names by Mrs. Fallows, but before she had time to analyse her feelings Iola reappeared. "Well, good-bye," said Mrs. Fallows. "Yeh'll come agin w'en yeh git back. Good-bye, Miss," she said to Margaret. "It does seem to give me a fresh start w'en yeh put things to rights."
All that day he rode slowly, giving his old nag two hours' rest at noon, and long before sundown he pulled up before a house in a cross- roads settlement, for the mountaineer does not travel much after nightfall. "I want to git to stay all night," he said.
"Hain't goin' to have Homer used for no sanitorium," said Scattergood. "I like him," said Yvette. "'Tain't enough. Up this way folks mostly loves when they git married or owns adjoinin' timber." Again she was at a loss. What did he mean? If he would only smile! "I I've got a feeling I could trust him," she said, "and he'd be good to me." "He would," said Scattergood.
"Now den, you kin git out," said she, pocketing the money. Then she again raised her crown and replaced it on her head. "Afrikins, behole your queen!" she cried. This was more than we could stand. To see this usurpation and robbery made our blood boil. We, by ourselves, could do nothing; but we could get help. We slipped away and ran down the road in the direction of the hotel.
An' then before the Homes was set a-goin', the fellers as wanted to get quiet lodgin's didn't find it easy to know where to look for 'em, an' was often took in; an' when they wanted to send cash to their wives or mothers, they didn't well know how to manage it; but now, wherever there's a Home you can git cheap board, good victuals, help in the way o' managin' yer cash, an' no end of advice gratis.
"All I'm goin' to tell ye is that the longer ye live the more ye'll find things out. Let's flax 'round 'n' git supper!" A little while after, as Si was squatting on the ground holding the frying-pan over the fire, he saw a strange insect vaguely wandering about on the sleeve of his blouse.
Nothing could damp his eternal placidity and good humour. He proposed that from this point onward he should pursue his journey alone. "Nowt to do but git on th' tram," he said. "It's a fair step from 'ere, but I knows every inch of t' way." And he did.
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