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"What did you say?" asked John. "Nuthin'," said David. "They was all laughin' so't I couldn't git in a word, an' then the waiter brought me another plateful of somethin'. Scat my !" he exclaimed, "I thought that dinner 'd go on till kingdom come. An' wine! Wa'al! I begun to feel somethin' like the old feller did that swallered a full tumbler of white whisky, thinkin' it was water.
No use staying any longer out here, with Ted Slavin and his cronies hanging around, ready to bombard us again. Besides, I guess Paul wants to wait till he gets his book before telling us any more about the game." "Right you are, Nuthin'. I only wanted to see how the land lay, and if you took to the idea.
Inquiries were made throughout the parish, which only served to set tongues wagging more than ever. "I knew when the parson took him in," said one knowing person, "that something 'ud happen. Ye can never tell about sich waifs. They generally amount to nuthin' or worse." Nellie missed Dan very much. She had come to love the lad with all his quaint ways and dreamy far-away look.
How "all of a suddent" the parson came in, "give him a clip side o' the head," and knocked him off the bench, and left him there! "But what did he SAY?" queried the crowd. "Nuthin'. Afore I could get up, he got away." "Are you sure it was him?" they asked. "You know you SAY you was asleep." "Am I sure?" repeated Jack scornfully. "Don't I know thet face and beard? Didn't I feel it hangin' over me?"
"Ye 'lowed ter me ez ye never keered nuthin' fur that man, Renfrow," he said with a plaintive appeal, far more powerful with her than scorn. She looked up at him with candid reassuring eyes. "I never keered none fur him," she protested. "He kem hyar all shot up, with the miners an' mounting boys hot foot arter him an' we done what we could fur him.
Daddy began to hobble out to the pitcher's box. "Don't you hide that ball. See! I've got my eye on this game. That ball was in play, an' you can't use the other." Umpire Gale looked sheepish, and his eyes did not meet Daddy's. Then Bo came trotting up. "What's wrong, boss?" he asked. "Aw, nuthin'. You're tryin' to switch balls on me. That's all. You can't pull off any stunts on Madden's Hill."
"And m-m-me for a d-d-d-d-d-drum!" echoed Bluff, excitedly; when he was immediately pounced upon as usual, and pounded several times on the back. "Yes, do get Bluff something he can beat. I've heard him drum, and he's just a corker at it. It keeps him from talking, you know," laughed Tom Betts. "Hello!" exclaimed Nuthin' suddenly; "look who's here, fellows!"
First you drown the gal an' her baggage, an' then you git carryin' her around, an' walkin' into her virgin bedroom without no by your leave, nor nuthin'." But Buck quite ignored her protests. He felt it was useless to explain. So he turned back and gave his final instructions from the doorway. "You jest get her right to bed, ma'm, an' dose her," he said amiably.
"Possibly we can dew better in th' mornin', though it's more'n I can see how, seem' that thar's nuthin' but th' face of a solid wall of rock tew search; an' we've searched 'bout every inch of that that we can a'ready," and he threw his big frame down on the ground and stared at the wall of rock wrathfully.
"And what is that?" "Nuthin' much, 'cept you'll go with me." "And why shouldn't I?" "That's jist the pint about which I ain't sure. Though you've got the feet of a man, yit from what I gather yer heart an' yer head have eagle's wings, which'll make ye impatient to foller an old feller like me, who ain't as spry as he once was, an' whose jints are somewhat stiff."
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