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I couldn't get carriers for one thing, and I wouldn't give a cent to be carried round anyway with my dizzy spells, I should more'n as likely as not fall off. But that hain't the main reason I'm agin it, it is too tuckerin' a job for wimmen." "Tuckerin' to be enthroned on a pedestal with the male sect lookin' up to you and worshippin' you. You call that tuckerin'?" sez he. "Yes," sez I, "I do.
"And ye didn't need ter more'n look at her aunt's face," Nancy was sobbing to Old Tom in the garden, after the doctor had arrived and was closeted in the hushed room; "ye didn't need ter more'n look at her aunt's face ter see that 'twa'n't no duty that was eatin' her.
He would have soon gone to sleep again had not the door opened, and a man emerged, who exclaimed: "Faix, an who have we here, noddin' to himself as if he knew more'n other folk? Are ye waitin' for some un to ax ye within for a comfortin' dhrop?" "Take me 'ome," mumbled Haldane. "Where's yer home?" "Mrs. Haldane's," answered the youth, thinking himself in his native town.
You see they are relations of ourn and have been for some time, entirely unbeknown to us, and they'd come more'n a year ago a huntin' of us up. They said they "thought relations ought to be hunted up and hanged together." They said "the idea of huntin' us up had come to 'em after readin' my books." They told me so, and I said, "Wall!"
The squire fixed his eyes cunningly on his intended victim, and said, "Goin' to buy one in town?" "I don't know of any that's for sale." "How much do you calc'late to pay?" "I suppose I'll have to pay thirty dollars." Squire Green shook his head. "More'n that, neighbor Walton. You can't get a decent cow for thirty dollars. I hain't got one that isn't wuth more, though I've got ten in my barn."
"There's a friend o' mine," continued Melky, "wholesale jeweller, down Shoreditch way, wants to get out a catalogue. He ain't no lit'ry powers, d'you see? Now, he'd run to a fiver cash down if some writing feller 'ud touch things up a bit for him, like. Lor' bless you! it wouldn't take you more'n a day's work! What d'ye say to it?"
Only think of it a grown man spending his time flat on his stomach in the woods counting ants' legs and bugs' eyes!" "Oh, but " The stranger stopped. The hotel-keeper had the floor. "It began when he wa'n't more'n a baby. He pestered the life out of his mother bringing snakes into the sittin'-room, and carrying worms in his pockets. The poor woman was most mortified to death about it.
"But you fought the Frenchmen with the Injins," declared Lot. "Huh! Them's only half-bred. Frenchmen ain't no more'n savages," said 'Siah, gloomily. An hour passed a long, long time to the excited boys. Then, far down the winding road quite a piece of which they could observe from the summit of the wooded ridge, was seen the sudden glint of sunlight on metal.
There was a lifting of the eyebrows of Jack Baldwin. "What line?" "Cutting wood, just now." Baldwin shook his head. "How Pollard uses so much help is more'n I can see. He's got a range back of the hills, I know, and some cattle on it; but he's sure a waster of good labor. Take me, now. I need a hand right bad to help me with the cows." "I'm more or less under contract with Pollard," said Terry.
Folks think he just courted her one spell that summer, not real serious, just to pass the time away, you might say, like many another young man. Mrs. Hikes says, she never heard of him writin' to her, or anything, 'n' if he had, old Hawkins that brings the mail couldn't have kep' it, any more'n he could keep the news he reads off postal cards.
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