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"Wal, not rightly sick, but ailin'." Sunny's smile broadened till a mouthful of fairly decent teeth showed through the fringe of his ragged mustache. "Ailin'?" "Yep. Guess I bin overdoin' it." "It don't do, working too hard in the heat," said Scipio absently. "Sure," replied Sunny. "It's been a hard job avoidin' it. Ther's allus folk ready to set me workin'. That's just the way o' things.
"Why, whoever'd expected to find you 'way out here!" exclaimed a brisk and cheerful voice. There stood Betsey Lane herself, close behind them, having just emerged from a thicket of alders that grew close by. She was following the short way homeward from the railroad. "Why, what's the matter, Mis' Dow? You ain't overdoin', be ye? an' Peggy's all of a flutter. What in the name o' natur' ails ye?"
And then I made some more real low bows and Josiah did, bein' wunk at by me, and we withdrawed ourselves from the Presence. But Josiah, always overdoin' things, takin' out his bandanna and a-wavin' it towards her as he bowed most to the ground. But what wuz my surprise as we walked away kinder backward, Josiah mutterin' to me that he should fall flat if he backed off much furder!
Duney, finding his own voice at the sound of his companion's. "I thowt 'ow 'twas agreed 'tween us I wor to tell the gentleman, bor?" growled the pirate king, turning a pair of dusky eyes on his companion. "Yow allus have a way o' overdoin' things, you know, Dick." "Right, bor, right," replied Mr. Duney. "Yow oughter know I only wanted to help yow out, Billy."
"Then listen to me first.... Your son Jack, to say the least, will ruin Collie. Do you see that?" "By Gawd! I'm afraid so," groaned Belllounds, big in his humiliation. "But it's my one last bet, an' I'm goin' to play it." "Do you know marryin' him will kill her?" "What!... You're overdoin' your fears, Wade. Women don't die so easy."
But come, friends, the victuals be coolin', and the mouth loves a warm morsel." "I am certain," said the man, as they were partaking of the repast, "that I never tasted a piece of venison so finely flavored before." "I've cooked the meat for nigh on to sixty year," answered the trapper, "and have larnt not to spoil the sweetness of natur' by overdoin' it.
No, it ain't that I allows he's out to queer my weepon none, but think of sech a pretence of innocence! I leaves it to you-all, collectif an' individooal, do you reckon now thar's anybody, however tender, who's that guileless as to go askin' a perfect stranger that a-way to pass him out his gun? I says no, this gent is overdoin' them roles. He ain't so tender as he assoomes.
'Specially I'd like to please Auntie now and then just for the sake of well, I don't go so far as to say I could be fond of Auntie for herself alone, but you know what I mean. It's the proper thing. At the same time, I wouldn't want to seem to be overdoin' the act. No.
"Hadn't hadn't it anything to do with the praying?" "Garn!" Tilda chuckled. "But I'm glad it took you in too. The foolishness was my overdoin' it with 'Dolph. Dogs don't 'ave any religion, it seems; and it rattled 'em a bit, 'is be'avin' like a person that 'ad just found salvation.
Polly tried to get herself into safe shelter of generalities. "Old folks kind o' dreams things; you must excuse me, Maria. But I certain have heard a sight o' talk about your stoppin' here so long with Mr. Haydon, and that William thought you was overdoin', an' would have spoke, only you was his wife's cousin.
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