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"Heave y'r grip under the seat." They climbed into the seat after William had lowered the buggy top and unhitched the horse from the post. The loafers were mildly curious. Guessed Bill had got hooked onto by a lightnin'-rod peddler, or somethin' o' that kind. "Want to go by river, or 'round by the hills?" "Hills, I guess."
I don't know, an' I ain't sure she does herself, but she's as close as the bark on a tree. Jim says she's runnin' a separate account at the store, an' makes 'im figure everything she gets at bare cost in market freight not included. I heard her tellin' a lightnin'-rod peddler that that was where she could cut under the Chester House, which didn't have no store nor credit to speak of.
Them rods was the most ridicklus sham I ever see a regular gouge. They wa'n't worth the labor it took to put 'em up. They wa'n't, now. That's the honest truth." "What kind do you offer?" "Well, sir, I've got the only genuine lightnin'-rod that's made. It's constructed on scientific principles.
Sonny had slipped down the open chimbly right in amongst 'em come out a-grinnin', with his face all sooted over, an', says he, "Say, fellers," says he, "I run up the lightnin'-rod, an' he's a-waitin' for me to come down." An' thess ez he driv' out the school-yard into the road the teacher come in, an' he see how things was.
At one school the teacher did take him out behind the school-house one day to whup him; an' although teacher is a big strong man, Sonny's mighty wiry an' quick, an' some way he slipped his holt, an' fo' teacher could ketch him ag'in he had clumb up the lightnin'-rod on to the roof thess like a cat. So teacher he set down close-t to the lightnin'-rod to wait.
You can't miss it," said the cowboy who had spoken first. "Well, so-long, gents. If I get that job and any of you boys come out to the hotel, I'll sure feed you good." An eddy of smoke followed Sundown as he passed through the doorway. A cowboy snickered. The room became silent. "Call the poor ramblin' lightnin'-rod back," suggested a kindly puncher.
Any other topic you would like to sudgest, the ryne-gyge, the lightnin'-rod, Shykespeare, or the musical glasses? 'Ere's conversation on tap. Put a penny in the slot, and ... 'ullo! 'ere they are!" he cried. "Now or never! is 'e goin' to shoot?" And the little man straightened himself into an alert and dashing attitude, and looked steadily at the enemy.
I thought that lightnin'-rod man had glve him a lesson he'd remember; but no, he must go an' make a reg'lar-" She subsided in a tumult of banging pans, which helped her out in the matter of expression and reduced her to a grim sort of quiet. Uncle Ethan went about the house like a convict on shipboard. Once she caught him looking out of the window. "I should think you'd feel proud o' that."
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