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"Justus, I know ye never furgot me fur one minute. I kin find no fault with yer likin' fur me." She had never seen a stage. She had never heard of a theatre, but she was posing and playing a part as definitely as if it graced the boards. He detected a certain spurious note in her voice. It bewildered him. He stared silently at her. "I can't marry you-uns. I never kin."
"You see, March, when I first came to this part o' the world I fell in with a comrade a trapper much to my likin'. This trapper had been jilted by some girl, and came away in a passion, detarminin' never more to return to his native place. I never know'd where he come from, nor the partic'lars of his story, for that was a pint he'd never speak on. I don't believe I ever know'd his right name.
Sez I, 'I have twenty-five more down here in a creel in the river: that's fifty-five, sez I. 'Ye can have the lot for twinty dollars. 'It's a go, sez he; an' ever since that there's letters comin' up from Washington askin' if the wather is in good ordher, and what is the accommodations? Bedad! I'm wondherin' if them as we passed wouldn't be likin' a dozen or two on the same terms?"
"Lass, I ain't likin' thet, an' I ain't likin' the way you look an' speak." "I am sorry. I can't help either." "What'd this cowboy say to you?" "We talked mostly about his injured foot." "An' what else?" went on Belllounds, his voice rising. "About what he meant to do now." "Ahuh! An' thet's homesteadin' the Sage Creek Valley?" "Yes, sir." "Did you want him to do thet?" "I! Indeed I didn't."
I reckon I hev got a sneakin' likin' fur his ole black hide; but whut could you expaict when he's the only pusson, black or white, I've laid eyes on frum Lawsonville sence I run away to Car'liny nigh thirty year ago? I'll tell you sometime how I happened on Tony; hain't time now, fur I smell the bacon a-fryin', an' I reckon suppah'll be dished up in no time now."
How can ye think it friendly, Maud, when ye won't a'most shake hands wi' me? It's enough to make a fellah sware, or cry a'most. Why d'ye like aggravatin' a poor devil? Now baint ye an ill-natured little puss, Maud, an' I likin' ye so well? You're the prettiest lass in Derbyshire; there's nothin' I wouldn't do for ye. And he backed his declaration with an oath.
"Is Lady Maitland no awa wi' Sir Marmaduke, Geordie?" resumed his mother, when they were taking their meagre supper. "Na! na!" said Geordie; "they dinna like ane anither sae weel; an' I dinna wonder at Sir Marmaduke no likin' her, for I dinna like her mysel." "For what reason, Geordie?" asked his mother. "Because she doesna like me," answered the casuist.
Oldbury wants ter know if yer'll be likin' a barf in the mornin'." "You can tell Mrs. Oldbury that the answer is yes," I said gravely. Then I paused. "What's your name?" I asked. She sniffed again, and looked at me with round, wondering eyes. "Gertie, sir. Gertie 'Uggins." I felt in my pocket and found a couple of half-crowns.
After bettin' a good spell, I won somewhar about a hundred dollars. Not likin' the sign I seed about, I tuk Jack and put out. Wal, jest as I was kummin' roun' this hyur corner, four fellers them ye seed run out and jumped me, like so many catamounts.
"The above figures are determined by comparing the actual amount of proceeds collected by the Government in the 3rd and 4th years of the Republic with the estimated amount in the Budget of the fifth year. The total amount of loss caused by the abolition of likin will be $58,000,000. "The above figures are determined according to the Customs returns of the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th years of the Republic.
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