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I don't sleep in no bed," exclaimed Drusilla. "That makes no difference," said Mr. Thimblefinger. "If you sleep on a pallet just tap on the floor." "Please, Mister, don't talk dat a-way," pleaded Drusilla, "kase I'll be constant a-projeckin' wid dat tappin', an' de fus' time you come I'll holler fire." "Don't notice her," said Buster John, "she talks to hear herself talk." "I see," replied Mr.
"They will bring the corn in from the fields, and we will come down in good season." "And the moon will be full to-night," said Grace, beginning to sing: "'De jay-bird hunt de sparrer-nes', All by de light of de moon. De bee-martin sail all 'roun', All by de light of de moon. De squirrel he holler from de top of de tree; Mr. Mole he stay in de groun', Oh, yes! Mr. Mole he stay in de groun' "
Holler'd out "Shine yer boots!" as loud as I could holler. Mat. You must try my boots next time you come. Bill. This wery night, Mattie. I'll make 'em shine like plate glass see then if I don't. But where'll I get a box and brushes? Mat. You shall have our brushes and my footstool. Bill. I see! Turn the stool upside down, put the brushes in, and carry it by one leg as drunken Moll does her kid.
They starts in on it las' night an' some of 'em was lit up like a corner saloon, I tell you. Didn't I see 'em an' didn't I hear 'em? Great snakes! they kep' me awake with their shouts an' singin' las' night fer hours an' I'm campin' a good loud holler away from their hangout at that. I crep' down clost to find out what they was celebratin' an' I hears 'em gabbin', see. The gang aint all there yet.
"Now listen at you! You mean your daddy couldn't, nor his lawyer couldn't. Of course not. But you haven't tried it your own self yet." "How could I?" "Well, you'd a heap more sense than to size up things the way your pa did. The boys told me all about what happened. A man out here don't holler if you beat him fair, but if you stack the cards on him, that's different. Dan Anderson done just right."
"It beats all nater," said Jim, looking at them sympathetically, "how much boys can put down when they try. If the facks could be knowed, without cuttin' into 'em, I'd be willin' to bet somethin' that their legs is holler."
"W'en Brer Rabbit got out, he gallop off en tole de fokes w'at de well blong ter dat Brer Fox wuz down in dar muddyin' up de drinkin' water, en den he gallop back ter de well, en holler down ter Brer Fox: "'Ye come a man wid a great big gun W'en he haul you up, you jump en run." "What then, Uncle Remus?" asked the little boy, as the old man paused.
"Chickens a-crowin' on Sour-wood Mountain, Heh-o-dee-um-dee-eedy-dahdy-dee! Git yo' dawgs an' we'll go huntin', Heh-o-dee-um-dee-eedy-dahdy-dee!" An' when Jeb comes to "I've got a gal at the head o' the holler, Heh-o-dee-um-dee-eedy-dahdy-dee!" he jes turns one eye 'round on Polly Ann, an' then swings his chin aroun' as though he didn't give a cuss fer nothin'.
But they don't give a damn, so long as they get theirs. And then they wonder why some of us guys that went to France holler about the way we find things when we come home." He pushed his skiff away into the gloom that rested upon the Cove. The Bluebird was packed with salmon to her hatch covers. There had been a fresh run. The trollers were averaging fifty fish to a man daily.
The surly landlord pretended to believe I had no money when I entered his house, and I was obliged to give him the only spare shirt I had, with a silk handkerchief, which the good woman of Thorn had made me a present of, and to depart without a single holler. March 16.
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