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"Makin' a cock-shy of him," replies the hideous small boy. "Give me those stones in your hand." "Yes, I'll give 'em you down your throat, if you come a ketchin' hold of me," says the small boy, shaking himself loose from Jasper's touch, and backing. "I'll smash your eye if you don't look out!" "What has the man done to you?" "He won't go home." "What is that to you?"
"What for?" Billy Louise demanded, watching Jase reach languidly out for another potato. "She seen me diggin' bait," Jase said tonelessly. "I did think some of ketchin' a mess of fish before I went to sproutin' p'tatoes, but Marthy she don't take no int'rest in nothin' but work." "Are the fish biting good?" Billy Louise glanced toward the wider stream, where it showed through a gap in the alders.
'Powerful! said he, chewing vigorously on his quid of tobacco as he shook his head and looked down at his wet clothing. 'In a desp'rit fix, ain't I? 'Too bad! I exclaimed. 'Seldom ever hed sech a disapp'intment, he said. 'Ruther counted on ketchin' thet fish he was s' well hooked.
"Ketchin' any?" said a voice above the bank, and Chad looked up to see still another lad, taller by a head than either he or Dan evidently the boy whom he had seen rigging a pole up at the big house on the hill. "Oh, 'bout 'leven," said Dan, carelessly. "Howdye!" said Chad. "Howdye!" said the other boy, and he, too, stared curiously, but Chad had got used to people staring at him.
"Git the young men together who won't feel afraid o' bein' twenty ag'in one: you know the holes and corners where he'll be likely to hide, and what's to hinder you from ketchin' him?" "But he must have many secret friends," said Martha, "if what I have heard is true, that he has often helped a poor man with the money which he takes only from the rich.
And so he rode on howewards, occasionally a lookin' down on the Deacon with looks that I hope the recordin' angel didn't photograph, so dire, and so revengeful, and jealous, and and everything, they wuz. And ever, after ketchin' the look in my eye, the look in his'n would change to a heart-rendin' one of remorse, and sorrow, and shame for what he had done.
Of course, he meant to choke the life out of him, and his just ketchin' sight of Jombateeste do you believe that was enough to stop him, when he'd started in for a thing like that? Or what was it done it?" Westover listened with less thought of the fact itself than of another fact that it threw light upon.
"Nothin'. I was jest wonderin'." "You have traveled some, I take it." "Me? Say! I'm the ramblin' son with the nervous feet. Been round the world and back again on them same feet, and some freights. Had a pal onct. He was a college guy. Run on to him on a cattle-boat. He writ po'try that was the real thing! It's ketchin' and I guess I caught it from him. He was a good little pal."
"Looks like de worl' was ketchin on fire ober dere, Marse Clarence," said young Mark, speaking for the first time since they had resumed their march. "It is only the light reflected by the prairie, my boy," kindly replied Mr. Clarence. And then he smoked on in silence, while the after-glow died out, the twilight faded, and one by one the stars came out. Corona seemed to be slumbering in her seat.
And, furdermore, the widder's told my wife, bein' so tickled over ketchin' him that she couldn't hold it to herself. Now, for the last week, every time that old red-gilled dirt-walloper has led them hens into my garden, I've caught Bat Reeves peekin' around the corner of the widder's house watchin' 'em.
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