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"Whatever does this yere maverick do to me? Well, nothin' much to me personal; but he keeps a-breedin' of events which pesters me. "We're out about four days when them mishaps begins. I camps over one sun on the Concha to rest my mules.
He believes that I have discovered something which I will not tell him. He follows me about. He pesters me to death. He is a slave to that one idea a hideous, almost unnatural craving to get his hands on the source of his brother's money. I think that he will very soon be mad. To tell you the truth, I came in here to-night because I thought I should be safe from him.
This terrible traffic pervades all southern Europe, and everywhere pesters the meeting traveller with undesired bargains. In its presence it is almost impossible to fit a scene with the apposite phrase; and yet one must own that it has its rights. What would those boys do if they did not sell, or fail to sell, postal-cards. It is another aspect of the labor problem, so many-faced in our time.
"'Poor old soul she looks very wretched: what's her name? asked I, carelessly. "'Oh, I never troubled to inquire, Sahib: I believe she was an old servant left behind as lumber, and she pesters every one, day by day, about some 'bonnie bonnie bairn. "In a moment, Emmy, I had seized on dear nurse Mackie!
"What is the world coming to? Well, I've said many and many a time that Brother Lion was not right up here." Mr. Rabbit tapped his forehead significantly. "In a cage! Now, that pesters me. Why, he used to go roaring and romping about the country, scaring them that didn't know him mighty nigh to death. And so Brother Lion is in a cage? But I might have known it.
"I don't care so much about the young men," said Mr. Korley, "as I do about the middle-aged ones: My Jennie pesters me almost to death every time I go down, to buy her something to read. Of course I always forget it. Besides, I would like a place where I could see the papers and periodicals myself. I would give fifty dollars to see a good library and reading-room in Wheathedge."
He lets her have one of the best bedrooms, and treats her as if she was a lady. She is as proud as Lucifer she likes being treated like a lady and she pesters me every autumn to go to St. Crux. What's the matter? What are you taking out your pocketbook for?" "I want the admiral's address, Mr. Vanstone, for a purpose which I will explain immediately."
Shepard that these signals are made by Slade and Skelly's men?" asked Dick. "Shorely," replied the mountaineer, "an' I think they're up to some sort uv trick. It pesters me too, 'cause I can't guess it nohow. I done told the colonel that we'd better look out." Colonel Winchester joined them as he was speaking, and listened to the double signal which was repeated later.
That's the way 'tis with most worries, when you goes to the bottom of un. Nothin' to worry about. There's another fix we gets out of." "Fine and dandy!" exclaimed Charley. "I was sure you'd lost her, and I'm so glad she's all right after all." "Well, now," said Skipper Zeb, "this was once Mother was right when she pesters me to come and look at un.
I know her! I've had some, and I know her! She is one of the minor horrors of war. In peace-time she goes out on Alexandra Day, and stands on the steps of men's clubs and pesters the members to let her put a rose in their button-holes. What such a girl wants is a good old-fashioned mother who knows how to put a slipper to its right use!"