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Why, that little Mike theyre can han'le the dthrum-sticks to beat the felley in the big hat!" And she laughed again. They made arrangements for her and the three children to go "out into the confederacy" within two or three days at furthest; as soon as she and her feeble helper could hurry a few matters of business to completion at and about the Picayune Tier.
In vain she reversed her mental engines and tried to back off, but the collision was head on, and she and the idea were firmly welded together. "Here's the whip han'le!" she called wildly, as the wind caught her skirts and twisted them about her. "I been usin' it fer a thimble. An' here's the whip itself Take'em along! Take'em fer a witness!"
"Hoot, man!" he said, "I wad but lat ye see I'm nae lan'louper, an' can weel han'le a spaud. Stan' ye by a bit, an' rist yer banes, till I caw throuw a trifle o' yer wark." "An' what du ye expec' to come o' that? Ye're efter something, as sure's the deevil at the back yelt, though ye're nae freely sae sure to win at it."
"I maun see the hail thing, man Charlie," he explained; and then as the schooner went about a second time, "Eh, but they han'le her bonny!" he cried. "The Christ-Anna was naething to this." Already the men on board the schooner must have begun to realise some part, but not yet the twentieth, of the dangers that environed their doomed ship.
Now Tom had not discussed the Jackson well, except casually with Judge Halloran, but every word that "Bob" spoke rankled, so he interrupted with a resentful query: "Ain't I equal to han'le an important deal?" "Bob" acknowledged quickly that he was.
And Dooble Sanny, though not too religious to get drunk occasionally, was a great deal too religious to play his fiddle on the Sabbath: he would not willingly anger the powers above; but it was sometimes a sore temptation, especially after he got possession of old Mr. Falconer's wonderful instrument. 'Hoots, man! he would say to Robert; 'dinna han'le, her as gin she war an egg-box.
In the evening, as they sat together after supper, Mr. Lammie said, 'Weel, Robert, hoo's the fiddle? 'Fine, I thank ye, sir, answered Robert. 'Lat's hear what ye can do wi' 't. Robert fetched the instrument and complied. 'That's no that ill, remarked the farmer. 'But eh! man, ye suld hae heard yer gran'father han'le the bow. That was something to hear ance in a body's life.
BUMSTEAD'S arms were folded tightly across his manly breast, and the fine head with the straw hat upon it tilted heavily towards his bosom. "I see't now," said he softly; "bone han'le 'n ferule. I r'member threshing 'm with it. I can r'memb'r carry'ng " Here Mr. BUMSTEAD burst into tears, and made a frenzied dash at the lock of hair which he again mistook for a fly. "To sum up all," concluded Mr.
Tak haud o' her as gin she war a leevin' crater. Ye maun jist straik her canny, an' wile the music oot o' her; for she's like ither women: gin ye be rouch wi' her, ye winna get a word oot o' her. An' dinna han'le her that gait. She canna bide to be contred an' pu'd this gait and that gait. Come to me, my bonny leddy.
'Yo' didn't clap yo' han's at dat goose on de table! er, he! he! he!" And so Uncle Rufus finished the story of the Christmas goose. Ruth started the younger ones to bed immediately; but Tess called down from the stair: "Uncle Rufus! He didn't make her go see the field overseer, did he?" "Sho'ly not, chile. Dat wasn' Cunnel Mark Colby's way. My ol' mammy knowed wot would han'le him.
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