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"The hay's best ever come off my ground, thanks to the manure from Monks Barton; and look at the wurzels! Miller hisself said he've never seed a more promising crop, high or low. An' the things be in prime kelter, tu; an' better than four hunderd pound of uncle's money still left." "Long may it be left, I'm sure.
An' thar's no gittin' them out, nuther. I snaked under the house yestiddy an' sarched, an' sarched! an' I never fund but two. An' Towse, he dragged hisself under thar, too jes' a-growlin' an' a- snappin'. I thought fur sartin every minit he'd bite my foot off."
"Look at Gubbins!" cried one of his comrades; "blest if he hasn't been taking a cast of hisself in clay. Going to have a marble statty, old man?" "You ought to have a photo taken to send home to your sweetheart, Jim." "Pity it's the end of February, and not the beginning; what a lovely valentine he would make, surely."
But when we gets outside he slaps his knee and laughs inside hisself, and winks at me most sociable. The Master's new home was in the country, in a province they called Long Island. There was a high stone wall about his home with big iron gates to it, same as Godfrey's brewery; and there was a house with five red roofs; and the stables, where I lived, was cleaner than the aërated bakery-shop.
"Speaking of deals," he said, "reminds me of a poker game I once seen in Reno, Nevada. It wa'n't what you-all would call a square game. They-all was tin-horns that sat in. But they was a tenderfoot short-horns they-all are called out there. He stands behind the dealer and sees that same dealer give hisself four aces offen the bottom of the deck. The tenderfoot is sure shocked.
Him what fed me when I war' starvin', an' gimme his last nickel when he war' hungry hisself; an' yo' want me ter kill him." He drew a long shuddering breath. "Mister, yo' shor' made 'er bad mistake this time." "I'll fix it though," cried Whitley; and with an awful oath he leaped forward, the knife uplifted.
Down he sat in front o' the fireplace, an' after some palaver an' a pipe for your Injuns'll never tell all they've got to say at once he tells Macdonell that there was a dark plot hatchin' agin' him that Hawk, a big rascal of his own tribe, had worked upon a lot o' reptiles like hisself, an' they had made up their minds to come an' massacre everybody at the Fort, and carry off the goods.
Your brother Izzy, I tell you, could do well to mock after Max Hochenheimer a man what made hisself; a man what built up for hisself in Cincinnati a business in country sausages that is known all over the world." "Country sausages!"
Where did you get that white skin, and that golden not to say red hair, sir?" he said, laughing. "Whom is he like?" "Like hisself," said Tom, smiling. "Yes, that is quite certain," said Uncle Geoff. "And now, my friends, having looked you all over, so that for the future I shall know which is which, tell me how you are going to amuse yourselves to-day?"
"He said that you wasn't a-going to have no husband but the best kind if he had to kill him no, he said that if he was to have to go dead hisself he would come and bring him to me, when he got him good enough for you by doing right and such."
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