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He's just got a couple of handouts an' he passes one to me, an' we gits to talkin'. He gits to tellin' me somethin' about a nutty old gazebo who lives in the next town, which he had just left.
But what gits me is 'is not bein' 'eard of pullin' wool off the niggers somewheres about. That don't look good. The drink must ha' died out in 'im by this, unless 'e's broke a bank, an' then Why don't 'e come back? 'E didn't ought to ha' gone off without us.
Sand's blowin' up from the lake and gits in their eyes, too. Ain't used to it yet. Come on." There were hollyhocks in front of the house and among them I stood waiting for the old man to open the door. "Susan," he said, as he stepped into the room, "this here world this one right here is as full of surprises as a chicken is with with I don't know what.
And what they expect to see so great, gits me. He ain't nothing but a man and, land knows, men is common enough, and ornery enough, without runnin' like a band of sheep to see one. I don't see as he's any better, jest because he's runnin' for President; if he gits beat, he'll want to hide his head in a hole in the ground. Look at my Walt.
If I got to fight I want to hop to it, not set round in the shade o' the shelterin' palm while them guys are heatin' up the stewpot. This waitin' stuff gits my goat." "You might sing us a song, senhor, to pass the time," Pedro suggested, with a tight-lipped smile. "Say, I'll do that, jest to show these guys I don't give a rip.
Ye see ev'ry letter that's sent ercrost is opened an' read afore it gits to him lessen it's guarded keerful. This 'ere one, I guess, has suthin' powerful secret in it. He pays all the bills. So I'll be goin' erlong with ye on the nex' ship an' when we git thar I want to shake hands with the gal and tell her how to make ye behave."
"My uncle Dan owns this land. He knows you-uns are here, and he's comin' down pretty soon, too. He says you-uns will be sorry you shot that calf afore he gits done with you." Randy stared at the lad in amazement, and then a sudden light broke on his mind.
So if you and your Court want this kid t' go t' night school, out he gits from here. And that's my last word." He sat down. Mr. Maloney got up, a worried expression on his face. "I'll have to let the matter stand as it is for a while," he admitted quietly. "This year the city's got more public charges than it knows what to do with so many men out of work, and so much sickness these last months.
Many a feller gits beat 'cause he don't wait for the other to beat hisself." They were all buoyant over the affair, and they followed some distance, until they saw that Wyatt and Blackstaffe had changed their course in order to join the main band, when they started back to Clark, having seen all they wished.
"Yo' go right up to de office over dar and gin it to the clerk. He see Cap'n Gary gits um." "But but I have to see the captain myself," urged Ralph. "What yo' reckon a gen'lemun like he wanter sech a boy as you? Huh?" Ralph felt that his clothes were against him, but he did not propose to be bullied by a servant and a negro at that. "Look here," said he.
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