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'Cause when the flood dried up the woods would soon be full uv 'em ag'in." "Jim Hart, hevn't you no sense a-tall, a-tall? Ef all the animals wuz drowned, ev'ry last one o' 'em, how could the woods be full o' 'em ag'in?" "Don't ask me, Sol Hyde. Thar are lots uv things that are too deep fur you an' me both. Now, how did the animals git into the woods in the fust place?"
Roscoe told me afterwards what happened then. "Padre," he said to Roscoe, "are we alone?" "Quite alone, Phil." "Well, I hevn't any crime to tell, and the business isn't weighty; but I hev a pal at Danger Mountain " He paused. "Yes, Phil?" "He's low down in s'ciety; but he's square, and we've had the same blanket for many a day together. I crossed him first on the Panama level.
Y'u air as cur'us to him as one o' them bugs an' sich-like that he's always a-pickin' up in the woods. I hevn't said nuthin' to yer dad, fer fear o' his harmin' the furriner; but I hev seed that ye like him, an' hit's time now fer me to meddle. Ef he was in love with ye, do ye think he would marry ye? I hev been in the settle-mints. Folks thar air not as we citizens air.
"Lord, Danny if you hevn't been an' gone an' struck it rich!" Danny regarded Stillwell with lofty condescension. "Some rich," he said. "Now, Bill, what've we got here, say, offhand?" "Oh, Lord, Danny! I'm afraid to say. Look, Miss Majesty, jest look at the gold. I've lived among prospectors an' gold-mines fer thirty years, an' I never seen the beat of this."
But I'm no enemy o' the Church, sir, when the Church brings light to the ignorant and the sinful; an' that's what you're a-doin', Mr. Tryan. Yes, sir, I'll stan' by you. I'll go to church wi' you o' Sunday evenin'. 'You'd far better stay at home, Mr. Jerome, if I may give my opinion, interposed Mrs. Jerome. 'It's not as I hevn't ivery respect for you, Mr. Tryan, but Mr.
Tomorrow they may be too late." "I don't look at things in that way, sir." "Jonathan, how do you look at the Naylors' proposal?" "As downright impudence. They hev the money to buy most things they want, but they hevn't the money among them all to buy a share in your grand old name and your well-known honorable business. I told Mr. Henry that." "However did the Naylors get at Mr. Henry?"
There, there I know what you want to say but 'taint so! What would ye say ef I was to tell ye that all ye've got to do is jest to get into a machine I've got an' I can take ye back to 1876 in next to no time! What would ye say " "I'd say ye was tighter'n a boiled owl, Copernicus Droop." "But I ain't, I ain't!" he almost screamed. "I tell ye I hevn't teched liquor fer two days. I've reformed.
"Well, I won't go so far as to say you hevn't deserved it, Harve. Don't you want to slip up to Wouverman's office and take him our tallies?" "Who's that boy?" said Cheyne to Dan, well used to all manner of questions from those idle imbeciles called summer boarders. "Well, he's kind o' supercargo," was the answer. "We picked him up struck adrift on the Banks. Fell overboard from a liner, he sez.
So I kind uv growed up with the curi's notion that wimmin folks wuz too good for our part uv the country, 'nd I hevn't quite got that notion out'n my head yet. One time wall, I reckon 't wuz about four years ago I got a letter frum ol' Col. Sibley to come up to Saint Louey 'nd consult with him 'bout some stock int'rests we hed together. Railroad travellin' wuz no new thing to me.
They're cur'ous talkers i' this country, sir; the gentry's hard work to hunderstand 'em. I was brought hup among the gentry, sir, an' got the turn o' their tongue when I was a bye. Why, what do you think the folks here says for 'hevn't you? the gentry, you know, says, 'hevn't you' well, the people about here says 'hanna yey. It's what they call the dileck as is spoke hereabout, sir.
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