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"Well, Jem, what have you got to say now," said the Commodore; "is it the truth or no?" "Why, darn it all," retorted Jem, "harn't I just told you it was true; it's most blamed hard a fellow can't be believed now why, Mr. Aircher, did I ever lie to you?" "Oh! if you ask me that," said Harry, "you know I must say 'Yes! for you have, fifty times at the least computation.
"In the large woods especially. In the small places there are plenty of sure finds." "There harn't been nothing of frosts yet keen enough to stir them," said Tom. "I guess we'll find them. And there harn't been a gun shot off this three weeks there. Hoel's wife's ben down sick all the fall, and Halbert's gun busted in the critter's hand." "Ah! did it hurt him?"
"I did so, by the eternal," replied Tom, bolting a huge lump of beef, in order to enable himself to answer "I did so, and good milk punch it made, too, but it was too weak! Come, Mr. Forester, we harn't drinked yet, and I'm kind o' gittin dry!"
"No, sir, I harn't seen it. Let's see, I don't think I've been here only when I locked up." "By some mischance I left my desk unlocked when I went out in a hurry yesterday. Lindon here has found one piece on the floor." "P'r'aps tothers is there, too," said Jem eagerly. "No; we have looked. Call your wife. Perhaps she may have found them when sweeping." "Not she, sir," said Jem.
For a second, I stood irresolute, and a merciful interference was sent to rescue me. "Why," exclaimed a voice that came pleasing to my ears, "why are you going to accuse this here brother? Harn't twenty men failed afore, and you never thought of asking questions?" I looked round, and my friend Thompson of happy memory nodded familiarly, and by no means disconcertedly to me.
A new parson is a mighty change for the better, mostwise, we finds. Why, when I was a boy, we never had no schooling. And now mine goes and learns singing and jobrafy, and ciphering, and sich like. Not that I sees no good in it. We was a sight better off in the old times, when there weren't no schooling. Schooling harn't made wages rise, nor preaching neither."
"Give your orders," said Thomson. "You've had your day's fun, and seemingly you're determined I should have my night's. Row away, mate." And he and his man turned the boat's head and pulled out of the gulf. "I say, Thomson, have you got any gwub or anything?" said Braintree faintly. "Grub," said the jocular coastguard. "What, harn't you found grub enough on this here island?
'Yes, sir, replied Mary Ann. 'And tell Bartholomew to get his washin' bills in. 'He harn't had no washin' done, replied Mary Ann, raising her voice to correspond with that of her master. 'Then his bill for postage, replied Mr. Jog, in the same tone. 'He harn't had no letters neither, replied Mary Ann. 'Will he? said Mr.
'Sixpence! shouted the man, following the phaeton with outstretched hand. 'You harn't got no ticket, said Coppers, coming up, 'and ain't a-goin' to not never no meetin' o' trustees, are you? asked he, seeing the importance of the person with whom he had to deal; a trustee of that and other roads, and one who always availed himself of his privilege of going to the meetings toll-free.
It took but a few moments before the two parties met, the "Cattymount" throwing out his foot to block the path. "Hello!" roared the "tough," folding his huge knotty arms across his partially bared breast; "ho! ho! whoa up thar, pilgrims! Don' ye go ter bein' so fast. Fo'kes harn't so much in a hurry now-'days as they uster war.
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