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It's the gal that makes the diff'rence fer you. Say, lad," Rube laid a kindly hand on the sick man's drooping shoulders, and his manner became lighter, and there was a twinkle in his deep-set eyes, "when I'd located that I wanted Ma fer wife I jest up an' sez so. I 'lows the job wa'n't easy. I'd a heap sooner 'a' let daylight into the carkises of a dozen Injuns.
They invented the names by which the voices of different animals were to be known. Once I snatched the pencil out of the hand of the freedman as he was writing the sentences, 'The horse neighs, the pig grunts, the goat bleats, the cow lows, the sheep baas. 'He, himself, I added, 'croaks like a hoarse jay.
"Ye see," Birt presently continued, "I dunno when I kin git shet o' the tanyard this year. Old Jube Perkins 'lows ez he air mighty busy 'bout'n them hides an' sech, an' he wants me ter holp around ginerally. He say ef I do mo' work'n I owes him, he'll make that straight with my mother.
But ther' ain't no tellin', an' we're slack since the harvest. I 'lows the notion's tol'ble. Mebbe they'll be quiet some now Rosebud's gone." There was a quiet emphasis on Seth's final speculation. "I heard she'd gone away for a bit." Nevil looked searchingly at this man whom he hated above all men. "Gone for good," Seth said, with an admirable air of indifference. "How?" Nevil suddenly sat up.
"Ef you 'lows us t' come heah an' straighten out you' close, an' mend 'em you dunno how happy you mek me an' Hester des to do dat much, Mis' Brice." The note of appeal was irresistible. Mrs. Brice rose and unlocked the trunks. "You may unpack them, Nancy," she said. With what alacrity did the old woman take off her black bonnet and shawl! "Whaffor you stannin' dere, Hester?" she cried.
"I 'lows you've got grit," replied the little man quietly, looking squarely into the big man's eyes. "Go to h " "Guess I'd as lief be in Forks; it's warmer," replied Slum, imperturbably. "Stow yer gas! You nag like a widder as can't git a second man." "Which wouldn't happen wi' folk o' your kidney around." Shaky was on his feet in an instant, and his anger was blazing in his fierce eyes.
"It 'lows a man to say the unproper words in the hearin' of the angel, afore he's shot; so it won't prevent her ears from being 'fended. Can't we fix it some way, so that she shan't hear 'em at all?"
We hain't none o' us seen him since this mornin'. I guess he's kinder wanderin' round. Does any of you know whar he is? We might ax what he 'lows to do." Tom bent down over the child as it lay in the woman's lap. No one could see his face. "I know what he's going to do," he said. "He's going away to-morrow after the funeral." "'N' take the child?" in a chorus.
Guess he wus plumb scart o' that deac'n, tho' I 'lows he wus a harmless-lookin' feller 'nough. I see him clear sheer out o' range on sight, which made me think he wus a mean-sperrited cuss anyway. "Yes, I guess I wus glad I'd come; I felt that easy an' wholesome. Say, the meetin's dead gut stuff. Yes, sir dead gut.
Every sheep that bleats, every ox that lows, every ass that brays, every bird that sings, and every goose that gabbles, is more of a sage, if not more of a saint, than the great preachers! The things so-called by a certain class of simpletons, are about the most pitiable, if not the most blameable creatures, in all God's universe. What then is the upshot of what I am saying? It is this.
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