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But when things gets beyond a certain bigness you can't shut 'em in not unless you first chops 'em up, and that spoils 'em. "Now, there's Shoemaker Hankin a man as could talk the hind-leg off a 'oss. He goes at it like a hammer, and thinks as he's openin' things out; but all the time he's shuttin' on 'em in and nailin' on 'em up in their coffins.
We who are not inclined to be mutinous can help him out a good bit in this matter." "How?" I asked, in perplexity. "By standin' out stiffly against their fool talk, though there ain't much chance you can convince 'em with words; but if one, or half a dozen, for that matter, gives me an openin', I'll see if the weight of my fist can't beat some sense into them."
There was no answer; the echoes came rattling back to their ears, and that was all that they heard. "Mayhap he's gone to the headin'," said Billy, "an" tried to get oot by the auld slope." "That's just what he's done," replied Conway, earnestly; "I told 'im where the old openin' was; he's tried to get to it." "Then we'll find 'im atween here an' there."
"I mean," says Vee, "that here is a missionary field, right at your door. If you can go off among foreigners and get them to give up some of their silly ways and organize them into groups and classes, why can't you do something of the kind for these silly New York flat dwellers? Can't they be organized, too?" "Why," says Mrs. Bill, her eyes openin' wider, "I never thought of that.
"Yes, boss," he replied, "an' I wish 'em honorable graves!" and he went on playin the banjo, larfin all over and openin his mouth wide enuff to drive in an old-fashioned 2 wheeled chaise. The train of cars in which I was to trust my wallerable life, was the scaliest, rickytiest lookin lot of consarns that I ever saw on wheels afore. "What time does this string of second-hand coffins leave?"
Jacob an' me'll go out an' take a look at the stock, says he, 'and come back when you're feelin' calmer. An' he nods to me, an' out we both goes, before Sary could git her breath agin. I didn't say nothin', 'cause I was laughin' so inside 't I couldn't. Abner, he walked along kind o' solemn, shakin' his head every little while, an' openin' an' shettin' his mouth.
Honest, when I sees her sailin' in mornin's, with all her swell drygoods on, I'm just as liable as not to half break my neck openin' the door for her. That's what I did the first time I saw her, when I was new on the gate. "This way, lady," says I, and when she pikes right by and heads for the cloakroom I almost has a fit.
"I was only thinkin'," says I, "that if the cards could have been shuffled different, with Gladys startin' in Sand Spur and Valentina on the Avenue, Warrie might not have so many yawns comin' to him across the dinner-table. But then, maybe Elmer of the Swamp deserves some lucky breaks. Who knows?" You see, I was openin' the mornin' mail. Hope you get that part.
"I've planned better things for you, Joan, better from this day forward, and more to your heart. Mackenzie is all well enough for teachin' a little school of childer, but he's not deep enough to be over the likes of you, Joan. I'm thinkin' I'll send you to Cheyenne to the sisters' college at the openin' of the term; very soon now, you'll be makin' ready for leavin' at once."
"I've got an idee thet we are a-comin' to another openin'," remarked Abe Blower, a few minutes later, after they had made a sharp turn to the right. "Why so?" asked Roger. "I kin feel some fresh air from somewhere." "I feel it too," returned Dave. "Doesn't it come from overhead?" "Mebbe, lad; although I thought it was ahead." "Here is that stream of water!" cried Roger, as they made another turn.
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