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Mackenzie could not forbear the question, even though his throat was dry, his lips cold, his voice husky at the first word. "She'll jump at it," Tim declared, warmly. "She wants to go away from here and see the world, and this will be her chance. I don't object to her leavin', either, as long as it don't cost me anything.
Den he asked dem whut would stay wid him to step off on de right and dem dat wuz leavin' to step off on da left."
Mammy would wash me en I'd go out frunt en play wid de white chilluns." "W'en de fightin' got so heavy mah white peeple got sum Irish peeple ter live on de plantation, en dey went south, leavin' us wid de Irish peeple." "I wuz leetle en I guess I didn't think much 'bout freedum, I'd allus had plenty ter eat en w'ar." "Dunno ob any slaves gittin' nuthin at freedum."
"That will do, Ferris!" coldly exhorted the colonel. "We wish no scenes here. You will take this seventyfive dollar check which Mr. Gault has so kindly made out for you, and you will go." "Leavin' Chum behind?" babbled Ferris, aghast. "Not leavin' Chum behind? PLEASE not!" He pulled himself together with an effort that drove his nails bitingly into his palms and left his face gray.
But it was all no use; Jack was bound on going, and go he would. So, the very next morning he was up at cock-crow, and afther leavin' good-bye with the whole of them, and leavin' the King and the Queen in tears, he started on his journey.
I roort at him that he could jist steer for himself for a nicht. And he asked why, and I said I was gang to hear Harry Lauder. "'Damn Harry Lauder!" he answers, gey short. "Ye'll be sorry yet for this nicht's work, Kirsty Lamont. Leavin' yer auld man tae mak' his ain tea, and him workin' syne six o'clock o' the morn!"
"I dropped in to see Mary two or three days before the speakin', and when I was leavin', I said, 'Mary, if there's anything I can do to help you about your dinner-party, jest let me know. And she said, 'There ain't a thing to do; Harvey's been to town and bought everything he could think of in the way of groceries, and Jane Ann's comin' over to cook the dinner; but thank you, all the same.
An' would you believe it, her mother was the little Maggie I used to know away back yonder in the kid days when all the world was just like a big, bulgey Christmas-stocking. She had married a good man, an' had come out to the coast with him on account of his health, an' he had flickered out without leavin' her much but a stack o' doctor's bills an' little Maggie.
Guess yeou'd see a thing or tew, an' find livin' on a log come as handy as ef you was born a turtle. "Waal, I stood it one summer; but it was the longest kind of a job. Come fall I turned contry, darned the farm, and vaowed I'd go back tew loggin'. Aunt hed got fond er me by that time, and felt dreadful bad abaout my leavin' on her.
"But Wildfire keeps travelin' the valleys the soft ground," said Slone. "No matter. He's leavin' the country, an' he's bound to strike sandstone sooner or later. Then, by gosh! mebbe he'll wear off them hoofs." "Say, can't he ring bells offen the rocks?" exclaimed Bill. "Oh, Lordy! what a hoss!" "Boys, do you think he's leavin' the country?" inquired Slone, anxiously. "Sure he is," replied Bill.
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