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The sullen roar of the wheels underneath me kep' kinder hunchin' me up every little while if I forgot myself for a minute, twittin' me that my pardner had let me go away from him; I almost thought I heard once or twice the echo, Grass Widder! soundin' out under the crunchin' roar and rattle of the wheels, but then I turned right over on my shelf and sez in my agony of sperit: Not that not grass.
I can jest see him now, the grim, crooked-legged little devil, hunchin' down over that wheel as if it was a hoss's neck." "I told him not to let the ride be hot or dusty," remarked Madeline. "Haw, haw!" roared Stillwell. "Wal, I'll be goin'. I reckon I'd like to be hyar when Link drives up, but I want to be with the boys down by the bunks.
"An' at that the man put his hands on his knees an' leaned sort o' hunchin' forward. "'Calliope! he says. "It was him, sure enough Calvert Oldmoxon. Same big, wide-apart, lonesome eyes an' kind o' crooked frown. His hair was gray, an' so was his pointed beard, an' he was crool thin. But I'd 'a' known him anywheres. "Calliope, she just stood still.
"Wall," sez I, faint as a cat, "I am apt to git my wish." For three men looked up and laughed, and one girl snickered, besides some other wimmen. Sez I, hunchin' him, "Do be still and less go to our old place." "Oh, no," sez he, speakin' up to the top of his voice, "don't less leave; here is such a variety!"
I was to go to school and learn to be a lady, but baby has come, and I can't go now. It will make some differ with him perhaps, an' he'll come for baby's sake. You b'lieve me, Jake?" "Yes, honey same as ef 'twas de Lawd himself talkin' to me, an' I'll take keer of de little one till he comes, an' if I sees somebody winkin' or hunchin' de shoulder, I'll I'll "
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