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Shelby smiled as she saw a prostrate lot of chickens and ducks, over which Chloe stood, with a very grave face of consideration. "I'm a thinkin whether Missis would be a havin a chicken pie o' dese yer." "Really, Aunt Chloe, I don't much care; serve them any way you like." Chloe stood handling them over abstractedly; it was quite evident that the chickens were not what she was thinking of.
John "You fellers all know that there's nobody knows half as much about chicken doin's as these 'tinerant Methodis' preachers. They give 'em chicken wherever they go, and folks do say that out in the new settlements they can't get no preachin', no gospel, nor nothin', until the chickens become so plenty that a preacher is reasonably sure of havin' one for his dinner wherever he may go.
My hand to you, there's not so sweet-tongued a knave in the province; but mind, I put you on your guard he's never pure honey all out, unless where there's bitther hatred and revenge at the bottom of it that's well known, so be advised and keep him at a distance; have nothin' to do or to say to him, and, as to havin' him for a godfather, why I hardly think the child could thrive that he'd stand for."
Come along with me and I'll git you something to eat." "But we waz enlisted for the 200th Injianny Volunteer Infantry, and must go to that rijimint," protested Monty Scruggs. "Well, what's that got to do with your havin' a good breakfast?" said the newcomer plausibly. "You need that right off. Then we kin talk about your regiment.
Him and Miss Prentice are havin' dinner all by themselves, and they sure make a swell-lookin' pair. Warrie he looks classy in anything, but in evenin' clothes he's a reg'lar young grand duke; while Miss Prentice well, she's one of these soft, pouty-lipped, droopy-eyed charmers, the kind you see bein' crushed against some manly shirt bosom on the magazine covers.
But somehow he'd work it thet that alarm 'd go off in the dead hours o' night, key or no key, an' her an' me we'd jump out o' bed like ez ef we was shot; and do you b'lieve thet that baby, not able to talk, an' havin' on'y half 'is teeth, he ain't never failed to wake up an' roa' out a-laughin' ever' time that clock 'd go off in the night!
I followed his sad gaze to the west, and we sighed in unison. "By the way, how 's your show stock gittin' along, major?" "My show stock?" "Why, sartin; we thinks all the more on ye, ef that c'd be, for havin' some business. Ye see, the way my woman found it out, she runs over to Lunette's every mail day and helps her sort the mail, 'nd she said all the letters 't come directed to 'Mr.
Meek in name and in nature, there was not a day that she did not overwork, and when the forenoon's tasks were completed, she would lie back exhausted in the big old chair, only to be reprimanded if her husband chanced to come in, for "havin' so little energy." It was with delight that she welcomed Aunt Sophrony, saying: "Do tell me all the news. I'm nearly always too tired to go out and hear any."
He was croaked complete. Then that sober-faced hyena lifts my gun an' the rifle an' says things to me, which I don't try to cross him. Then he goes behind the rock where we was havin' it out an' while he's gone I tries to git my guns from under that devil-eyed cayuse of his'n. "An' I don't succeed noways. That black devil turns on a half-dollar an' plants his hoofs plumb in my breast-bone.
Now, he'd like to make a lady of me; he'll wait a long time till he gets the chance! 'But wouldn't it be nice, Totty? Thyrza asked, doubtfully. 'I'd sooner live in my own way, thank you. Fancy me havin' to sit proper at a table, afraid to eat an' drink! What's the use o' livin', if you don't enjoy yourself?
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