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I tell you, honey, it made me feel young again jest to see them horses coverin' the ground like they did. My father used to raise fine horses, and Abram used to say that when it come to knowin' a horse's p'ints, he'd back me against any man in Kentucky. I'll have to be a heap older'n I am now before I see the day when I wouldn't turn around and walk a good piece to look at a fine horse."
You see the ground around the pond is marshy, and the heavy rains cut all sorts of gullies here and there, so the pond empties into the river, now, at five or six p'ints." "Are these points very far apart?" asked Sam, in dismay. "You see, I'm very anxious we should know the exact particulars." "Indeed!" John Barrow looked at them curiously.
"He frittered away a good deal on new-fangled merchines and such things that wa'n't of any account, had a reg'lar mania for 'em for a year or so before he died; and then he give some money to his housekeeper and the man that worked for him, and what was left he give to the town for a new town-hall; but, along of quarrellin' about where 'twas to set and what 'twas to be built of, and gittin' legal advice to settle the p'ints, I declare if 'tain't 'most squandered!
I figgers it out this way; these p'ints bein' startin' p'ints from the hut mus' be somewhere nigh the hut. So if we finds the tallest peak on the horizon an' then the peak on the cone where the trees come up the farthest an' gits the two in line, we'll have a straight course for the hut. Ain't thet so?" "Sounds right." "Maybe it is; maybe it ain't.
It nosed up against the halfbreed, nibbling playfully at his ears, his hands, the brim of his Stetson, the leather fringe of his chaps, the ends of the polka-dot handkerchief knotted about his neck. "Yuh're some glad to see me, Whiskers, ole gal if Mira ain't. But then yuh 'n' me knowed each other longer, an' sort o' got to see the good p'ints."
This one, she has her good p'ints about her, as clean a foot and ankle as I'd wish to see; but, laws, what a nose, Mr. 'Oward! And then for manner; she's no more manner than a stable dog." "She's in London, Billy?" "How am I to know, Mr. 'Oward?" "What's the good, then, of your coming here?" asked Gager, with no little severity in his voice. "I don't know as it is good.
"Except," went on the Bishop, "returnin' any little change he happen'd to borry from you, or swoppin' horses, or tellin' the size of the fish he happened to ketch. On them p'ints, my bretherin, the lamented corpse was pow'ful weak; an' I'm sorry to have to tell it, but I've been warned, as you all kno', to speak the exact facts."
Jes' stan's up ez straight an' smilin' afore all the crowd, an' jes' tells off his p'ints, one, two, three, ez nip! An' the crowd always cheers an' cheers jes' bawls itse'f hoarse. Whenever thar's a chance ter speak, Wat jes' leaves them t'other candidates nowhar." Ah, Theodosia's beauty well deserved the guerdon of sweet words. She might have been pictured as a thirsting Hebe.
She had her good p'ints, that old maid did, drat her! "James," she calls, "get out of that water this minute and come here! This instant, mind!" James minded. He paddled ashore and hopped, dripping like a dishcloth, alongside the truck wagon. "Get in!" orders Skipper Clarissa. He done it. "Now," says the lady, passing the reins over to me, "drive us home, Mr.
"Thanks for reminding me. It's best to clear all decks afore manoeuvers are begun in earnest." "I shall be going now. But I cannot take that draft. You will learn more about that later." "Suit yourself on both p'ints, Jim," replied the seaman studying the tips of his heavy boots. "You'd best take this money, though. It pays off all I owe you. Anyway, I'd stay if I was you.
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