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Just," he added, hurriedly, "t' see what power she had for writin'." This pretense to a purely artistic interest in the production was wondrously trying to the patience. "Skipper Davy," he went on, awkwardly, skippering me with a guile that was shameless, "it bein' from a woman bein' from a woman, now, says I 'twould be no more 'n po-lite t' open it. Come, now, Davy!" he challenged.
She looked down a dizzy slope of which the horse's foothold seemed to her the most precarious part. "Yes'm all the road there is. We call it that. We're kind of po-lite to these little efforts of the Government kind of want to encourage 'em. Congressmen kind of needs coaxin' and flat'ry. They're right ornery critters. I heard an argyment atween a feller with a hoss and a feller with a mule onct.
"You wouldn't say 'twould be more 'n po-lite, would you? It bein' from a lone woman?" I made no answer: for, at that moment, I caught sight of the twins, listening with open-mouthed interest from the threshold. "I wonders, Davy," the skipper confided, taking the leap, at last, "what she've gone an' writ!"
Weller for her po-lite inquiries, Sammy, replied the old gentleman. 'I think a pipe vould benefit me a good deal. Could I be accommodated, Sammy? Here Mrs. Weller let fall some more tears, and Mr. Stiggins groaned. 'Hollo! Here's this unfortunate gen'l'm'n took ill agin, said Sam, looking round. 'Vere do you feel it now, sir? 'In the same place, young man, rejoined Mr.
"The man that lives here is a farmer and a fisherman," said he, "and a very po-lite man in his taalk moreover, for I know him well," and he mimicked the Loch Ranza speech, which, indeed, is very proper speech, and I was very startled at one time to hear the very weans with the polite way of it.
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