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"But you'd better say nothin' about ketchin' a beau, or any such foolishness, er else she'd be just as likely not to go nigh Sampson County." "Befo' Cousin Jeff goes back," confided Mary B., "I'd like ter give 'im a party, but my house is too small. I wuz wonderin'," she added tentatively, "ef I could n' borry yo' house." "Shorely, Ma'y B. I'm int'rested in Mr.
Her round blue eyes widened, in an unmistakable terror quite piteous to see. "O Dilly!" she quavered, "how do you know such things? Why, you 'ain't looked at me!" Dilly opened her eyes, and chuckled in keen enjoyment. "Bless ye!" she said, "I can't help imposin' on ye, no more 'n a cat could help ketchin' a mouse, if't made a nest down her throat. Why, I see ye comin' round the corner!
"Yes, that's what 'e said; but I sez it was just the cold a ketchin' of her heart like, and stopping it." "What were you doing?" asked Katrine. "Why, I was out arter gold, o' course." Katrine shivered. They passed the "Sally White" at that moment, with its flaring lights and noise of merriment within. "Let's go in, Sam, and get a drink. Your tale has pretty near frozen me."
I speck I is a gittin' mo frailer dan I wuz 'fo' de fahmin days wuz over, but I sees wid my eyes an' I years wid my year, same ez enny er dese yer young bucks w'at goes a gallopin' roun' huntin' up devilment, an' w'en I sees de limberness er dese yer cullud people, an' w'en I sees how dey er dancin' up, den I gits sorter hopeful. Dey er kinder ketchin' up wid me." "How is that?"
Stuck to 'im like a limpit till he a-most busted hisself by tumblin' into a swamp, smashin' his spectacles, an' ketchin' fever, w'en he found hisself obleeged to go home to recroot he called it though what dat was I nebber rightly understood, unless it was drinkin' brandy an' water; for I noticed that w'en he said he needed to recroot, he allers had a good stiff pull at de brandy bottle."
I shall abide by your opinion, I understan' you to say distinc'ly, her complaint is not ketchin'? and urge upon Miss Darley to fulfil her dooties to a sufferin' fellow-creature at any cost to myself and my establishment.
Day and his daughter know what they want," said the cheerful looking man, decidedly. "He wanted to be brought home. Now, my little lady, where shall we put him? All ready, Bill?" "All ready," said Bill, who had the handles at the head of the stretcher. "But what's the matter with him?" demanded Mrs. Peckinpaw again. "Is it ketchin'?"
"What's fetched y' daown here so all-fired airly?" "You're a darned pooty lot daown here, you be!" Abel answered. "Better keep your Portagees t' home nex' time, ketchin' folks 'ith slippernooses raoun' their necks, 'n' kerryin' knives 'n their boots!" "What 'r' you jawin' abaout?" Elbridge said, looking up to see if he was in earnest, and what he meant. "Jawin' abaout?
And we endured it as best we could with shakin' nerves and achin' earpans. It wuz a curius time. The dog harrowin' our nerve, and snappin' at Josiah anon, if not oftener, and ketchin' holt of him anywhere, and she a callin' it a angel; and Josiah a lookin' so voyalent at it, that it seemed almost as if that glance could stun it. It wuz a curius seen.
"That's easy," said Bud Light. "What's easy?" questioned Williams. "Walkin' backwards," replied the facetious Bud. "If you don't step on your neck," said Pars Long. "I'm gettin' cold feet," asserted Bud Light after a silence. "That disease is ketchin'," said Billy Dime. "I know it. I been sleepin' next to you," retorted Bud.
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