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"To be readin' and writin' like like the minister's gal does. I air a-seekin' it every day!" "How?" Tess flushed. She could not tell Myra of the long bearded God in the pine tree, nor of the stumbling prayers she had repeated night after night. Myra understood that she could sing, so Tess said laconically: "I sings for it sometimes, and that air a seekin'." Myra grunted.
"Here bes a paper, yer reverence, Nick Leary fetched over from Witless Bay," he said. "It bes tored, sir; but maybe ye'll find some good readin' left in it." The good father was charmed. He had not seen a newspaper for six weeks.
"I mosies over to where he's settin'. He puts the wire in his pocket when he sees me comin'. I sets down beside him 'n' goes to readin' the paper. Pretty soon I folds up the paper 'n' looks at the board. "'That Tea Kettle might come through, I says to the ole nigger. "'Dat ain' likely, he says. 'He ain' won fo' a coon's aige.
"It's a bonnie word, an' yir mither wes a sanct; but it's no for the like o' me. It's ower gude; a' daurna tak it. "Shut the buik an' let it open itsel, an' ye 'ill get a bit a've been readin' every nicht the laist month."
The shoulders under it began to shake, and presently the astonished Jethro heard what seemed to be faint peals of laughter. Suddenly she turned around to him, all trace of laughter gone. "Why don't you read the book?" "So I am," said Jethro, "so I am. Hain't come to this casting-off yet." "And you didn't look ahead to find out?" This with scorn. "Never heard of readin' a book in that fashion.
Jamie cared little to read books, but on the day following Jess's discovery, I found him on his knees in the attic, looking through mine. A little box, without a lid, held them all, but they seemed a great library to him. "There's readin' for a lifetime in them," he said. "I was juist takkin' a look through them."
I was readin' the other day of a rich man that was once a poor boy, and sold papers like me. But there's one thing in the way I ain't got no eddication." "You can read and write, can't you, Dodger?" "Yes; I can read pretty well, but I can't write much." "I will teach you in the evenings, when we are both at leisure." "Will you?" asked the boy, with a glad smile.
That is the way that distressed, swearin', old fisherman Peter became one of the greatest and best men that ever lived; though it took a mighty lot of grace and patience to bring it about. Now I think of it, I think he fell from grace worse than I did that awfully hot summer. What an old fool I am! I've been readin' the Bible all my life, and never understood it before."
But it took eyes to do such things, and if now he was going to be blind "An' you say it's been comin' on gradual?" questioned Mrs. McGuire. "Why, I hadn't heard-" "No, there hain't no one heard," interrupted Susan. "He didn't say nothin' ter nobody, hardly, only me, I guess, an' I suspicioned it, or he wouldn't 'a' said it to me, probably. Ye see, I found out he wa'n't readin' 'em the papers Mr.
And how Nick had gone into the cabin, remained a singularly long time, and then come out, with a face half white and half red and an eye that dared anyone to ask questions. He had strode straight home to Lebrun's and gone to his room; and there he remained, never making a sound. "But I'll give you my way of readin' the sign on that trail," said Lester.
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