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"But she couldn't keep to it. When papa fell ill, and she was unhappy, she went back. And then of course she made it up with her brother." The triumph in Mrs. Mason's face yielded first to astonishment, then to anger. "The poor weak doited thing," she said at last in a tone of indescribable contempt, "the poor silly fule! But naebody need ha' luked for onything betther from a Helbeck.
"I was fixin' m' galluses, over Crawford's hedge, whin a gomeral luked over an' says, says he: "'Morra, Hughie! "'Morra, bhoy! says I. Anna arose, put her little Sunday shawl around her shoulders, tightened the strings of her cap under her chin and went out. We gasped with astonishment! What on earth could she be going out for? She never went out at night. Everybody came to her.
Been on the back o' one o' 'em hosses?" said D'ri, telling of it a long time after. "'D ruther o' been shet up 'n a barrel with a lot o' cats 'n' rolled downhill. Good deal better fer my health, an' I 'd 'a' luked more like a human bein' when I come out. Them fellers they did n't luk fit t' 'sociate with nuthin' er nobody when we led 'em up t' the house nut one on 'em."
"Who said it was as tall as the moon?" demanded the excited cow-puncher angrily. "I only meant to convey to your benighted senses some idee uv what it luked like." "Well, how high was it?" asked Jack, in whose tones was a curious note of interest, for a reason we can guess. "About twenty feet, as near's I could judge.
I ca' that a peskalent doctreen, an a loose ane to promoolgate. Though I must confess, ye hae na dune the meeschief I luked for". I did not think it best to go into a discussion of our theological differences, lest it should stir up the waters of strife, and therefore waived the subject. Mrs. McNab occupies two comfortable rooms at Mrs.
It was a bit rubbed out, an' hard ter see, but ef you knew it wuz thar an' luked fer it, you could see it plain enough." After inquiring about the baby, whose thankful mother declared it to be as well as ever, Roy and Jimsy dragged out the Golden Butterfly and boarded it.
"Phwin Oi shtar-rted from Burrage's Oi laid holt av a man's-size crowbar, but at that minit th' thing Oi helt in me hand luked about th' heft av a tinpinny nail. Be that toime all th' others wuz av loike moind to me. They wuz considerable crowdin', an', bein' crippled, Oi dhropped me crowbar an' laid a good holt on th' tail av Hod's coat.
An she gaed passt me like a puff o' wind as cauld as ice an I wor mair deed nor alive. An I luked afther her, an she vanisht i' th' varra middle o' t' path. An my leet went oot an I durstn't ha gane on, if it wor iver so so I juist crawled back tet hoose " "The door in the wall!" thought Laura. "He didn't know it was there." She had remained in the background while Mrs.
Another one: 'Tobacco is an Indian weed, And from the devil doth proceed It robs the pocket and burns the clothes And makes a chimney of the nose. "When de slaves gits sick, deir mammies luked af'er em but de Marse gived de rem'dies. Yes, dere wuz dif'runt kinds, salts, pills, Castah orl, herb teas, garlic, 'fedia, sulphah, whiskey, dog wood bark, sahsaparilla an' apple root.
Jenny doan't want tha! An Jenny luked oot an I just saw Teddy turn an speak to her beggin her like, a bit masterfu too, aw t' time and she flounced back again 'Keep yor distance, will yer! an slammed to the door an fell agen it, cryin. An sic a shoutin an hollerin frae the owd man! He made a gradely noise, he did bit never a word fra Teddy not as yo cud hear, I'll uphowd yo!
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