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"And lave you, ma'arm, and the childher alone wid the burnin' house?" "Yes, yes! Don't stay one moment." "I have no shoes, ma'arm, and the snow is so deep." "Put on your master's boots; make haste, or we shall be lost before help comes." The girl put on the boots and started, shrieking "Fire!" the whole way. This was utterly useless, and only impeded her progress by exhausting her strength.
"Can people eat that?" "By dad, an' they can; only thry it, ma'arm." "Why, 'tis so hard, I cannot cut it." With some difficulty, and not without cutting his finger, John broke a piece off, and stuffed it into the baby's mouth. The poor child made a horrible face, and rejected it as if it had been poison. For my own part, I never tasted anything more nauseous.
And if I hain't found the eighth wonder of Monarchical Creation, in finding Yew and Yewer fixins, solid and liquid, in a country where the people air not absolute Loo-naticks, I am Extra Double Darned with a nip and frizzle to the innermost grit! Wheerfore Theer! I la'af! I Dew, ma'arm. I la'af!"
Or is he then a slave? Or idiot?" Another time, a merry, wideawake American gent had tried the sawdust and spit it out, and had tried the Sherry and spit that out, and had tried in vain to sustain exhausted natur upon Butter-Scotch, and had been rather extra Bandolined and Line-surveyed through, when, as the bell was ringing and he paid Our Missis, he says, very loud and good-tempered: "I tell Yew what 'tis, ma'arm.
That evening Tom Tripe turned up, and Yasmini came down-stairs to talk with him, Trotters remaining outside the window with his ash-colored hair on end and a succession of volcanic growls rumbling between flashed teeth. "What's the matter with the dog, that he won't come in?" asked Tess. "Nothing, ma'arm He's just encouraging himself. He stays here tonight." "Trotters does? Why?"
And if I hain't found the eighth wonder of monarchical Creation, in finding Yew and Yewer young ladies, and Yewer fixin's solid and liquid, all as aforesaid, established in a country where the people air not absolute Loo- naticks, I am Extra Double Darned with a Nip and Frizzle to the innermostest grit! Wheerfur Theer! I la'af! I Dew, ma'arm. I la'af!"
"And lave you, ma'arm, and the childher alone wid the burnin' house?" "Yes, yes! Don't stay one moment." "I have no shoes, ma'arm, and the snow is so deep." "Put on your master's boots; make haste, or we shall be lost before help comes." The girl put on the boots and started, shrieking "Fire!" the whole way. This was utterly useless, and only impeded her progress by exhausting her strength.
The latter he describes as alternately trying and spitting out first the sawdust and then the ha, ha! the sherry, until finally, on paying for both and consuming neither, he says, very loud, to Our Missis, and very good tempered, "I tell Yew what 'tis ma'arm. I la'af. Theer! I la'af, I Dew.
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