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Uncle Ethan had a theory that a man's character could be told by the way he sat in a wagon seat. "A mean man sets right plumb in the middle o' the seat, as much as to say, 'Walk, gol darn yeh, who cares? But a man that sets in one corner o' the seat, much as to say, 'Jump in cheaper t' ride 'n to walk, you can jest tie to."
Then I offered to bet him five to two, so he got out his big roll, saying, "This is the money I left up to the tavern, so I'll just try you once." I put up my $500, and he put up $200. I turned the ticket with the corner bent, and won. He looked at me a moment, then said to the old gent, who was holding the stakes, "Give him the money, for gol darned if he didn't get her fair."
Gol, how happy that kid was you remember, Bill? I'll tell you kids now what I told him then told him right in front of his father; I says, 'Harry, you remember she's human and treat her as such, that's what I says ter him. You remember, Bill." Roy noticed that the girl had strolled away and was standing in the gathering darkness a few yards distant, gazing at the boat.
'If God has no voice to be heard for my client in this court-room to-day, is there no one on earth no man or woman who can speak for one who won't speak for himself? says Freddy Tarlton here. Then, by gol! for the first time Malachi opened. 'There's no one, he says. 'The speakin' is all for the sheriff. But I spoke once, and the sheriff didn't answer. Not a bit of beg-yer-pardon in it.
Tom counted out ten five-dollar gold pieces upon the table at his elbow. "And here's another, Sandy," he said, adding an eleventh, "as interest for the use of it." "Thank y', Mistuh Tom. I didn't spec' no in-trus', but I don' never 'fuse gol' w'en I kin git it." "And here," added Delamere, reaching carelessly into a bureau drawer, "is a little old silk purse that I've had since I was a boy.
"I won't neither cut nothin' out! An' you make me sick too, you gol darn fool!" "For the love of Mike, quit your babbling! Sssh!" "Don't you shush me, gol darn it!" cried Uncle Henry, crumpling the newspaper in his hand and throwing it on the floor. The heat was affecting him. "I've kep' still long enough, an' " "Oh, have you?" Gilbert smiled. " an' I'm goin' to find out what's what!"
I been thinkin' all up the road from Virginny o' this 'ere gol demnable money an' what I were a-goin' to do with it an' what it could do to me. An', sez I, I'm ergoin' to ask Jack to take it an' use it fer a wall 'twixt him an' trouble, an' the idee hurried me erlong honest! Kind o' made me happy. Course, if I had a wife an' childern, 'twould be different, but I ain't got no one.
In other words, to come right down to brass tacks, you stole one of the diamond cuff-buttons, gol darn it! and I want you to hand it back to me before I become so brutal as to seize you and take it away from you!"
De Lord, he ain't gwine ter say, 'Scuze dat nigger, caze he got money piled up; lef 'im erlone, fur ter count dat gol' an' silver. No, sar!
"Why," he said slowly, wishing to get at the bottom of things, "do you wish him to be shotted so tremendous?" Uncle Henry had no hesitation in answering: "Because he come to skin us out of this place, gol darn him!" And then, as if to save his skin, he pushed his chair far into the alcove, and, from this vantage point, watched to see what Hardy would do and say.
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