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Miller?" said the puzzled questioner, turning to his tenant. "I don't know, sir, indeed," was the reply. "She said that to me, and I couldn't understand her." "It's thuh poomple, docther. Dawn't ye knoo? Thuh big, flehmin poomple oop there." She indicated the locality, by flattening the rude tip of her own nose with her broad forefinger. "Oh! the pimple! I have it." So he had. Netty, Netty!
"'Nicely thank you, sir, says I, choky. 'And you, sir? "He smiles that way of his. "'I'll be better soon, says he. But I knoo from the way of his voice he'd got his marchin orders all right; and I knoo e knoo'd it too." The little man was sniffing; and the tears were flowing down his nose. "'Take me to Sailor, says he to the chaps.
"Yes," said the person addressed as Phoebe, "thee then said thee had warning of death and knoo some one was going to die, and that thee thought there was going to be more than one. I remember just as plainly as if thee had said it not more'n a minute ago." "I thought thee'd mind it," said the first speaker, and there was an accent of triumph in the tone of her voice as she spoke.
'Given my chaps a taste o the stuff after all their trouble. And he says it so ot and uffy like that the Genelman, leanin against the wall, laughs. "The orse-captain heard him, and pokes in. "'Who's that? he says. "Then when he saw the Genelman agin the wall, he offs his helmet he knoo what was what did the orse-captain, I will say that. "'Can we do anything for you, sir? says he, hushed like.
I was awakened about one o'clock. I knoo it was one, 'cause I had the rheumatiz so bad I couldn't sleep, and so I got up and went to the fire to keep warm. I thought I would put my horn to my ear, and I jest caught the faintest sound of the roosters crowin'; so when I hearn that I knoo what time it was.
'I shall knoo thee again, young man; no fear of that, she answered, nodding with an air of patronage. 'Now, missis, gae on coortin', and I wall gae outside and watch for 'ee. Though expressed not over delicately, this proposal arose, no doubt, from Gwenny's sense of delicacy; and I was very thankful to her for taking her departure.
"Ye're no buyer; I knoo that all along by that face on ye," he said in insulting tones. "Ye wad ha' bought him yerseif', nae doot?" M'Adam inquired blandly. "In course; if you says so." "Or airblins ye bred him?" "'Appen I did." "Ye'll no be from these parts?" "Will I no?" answered the other. A smile of genuine pleasure stole over M'Adam's face. He laid his hand on the other's arm.
Then we went out jest's if a kiss was nothin', an' I wasn't three strides into my gait 'fore I felt the boss knoo his business, an' was trustin' me.
"No," said she; "he never heern uv any Agency till I wuz tellin' him, jest naow. We knoo him, him 'n' her, over 'n San Jacinto. He lives in Saboba. He's never been to San Bernardino sence the Agent come aout." "Well, is he going to put his name down on the books?" said the doctor, impatiently. "You ought to have taken him to the Agent first."
But she had shuffled off at last with a confident, "Yis, sur aw, I knoo," her head nodding satisfied assent, and her big thumb covering the note on the margin, "Charge to Dr. "Mrs. Miller," he said, kindly, "don't be alarmed about your child. She is doing well; and, after you have given her the medicine Mrs. Flanagan will bring, you'll find her much better, to-morrow.
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