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He is the best fellow under the sun; but all my painstaking to break him of this perverseness has been utterly vain and thrown away; and if I would not earn scurvy thanks for my goodwill, I must even let him follow his own devices." "Might not a physician do him good?" remarkt Anderson. "It is one of his whims," replied Roderick, "to entertain a supreme contempt for the whole medical art.
"Wall," I said, "let it sweep!" He ceased me by the arm and said, "Let us glance at hist'ry. It is now some two thousand years " "Is it, indeed?" I replied. "Listin!" he fiercely cried; "it is only a little over two thousand years since " "Oh, bother!" I remarkt, "let us go out and git some beer." "No, Sir. I want no gross and sensual beer. I'll not move from this spot till I can vote.
Edward's curiosity was roused; and the old man went on with a tremulous voice: "I am still so much moved, my whole frame is still so much disordered by yesterday's shock, that you must have patience with my weakness. That my life is a cheerless one, that I have long renounced all those recreations and enjoyments, which are in fact the only things most men live for, you must long ago have remarkt.
Here's a sperrit," said the lan'lord, a smile once more beamin on his face, "which will talk through him like a Dutch father! I'm the sperrit for you, young feller!" "You're a helthy old sperret," I remarkt; and then I saw the necessity of gettin him out of the hall. The wimin was yellin and screaming, and the men was hollerin' perlice. A perliceman really came and collerd my fat fren.
But he is a kind good-natured sprite; and so thou must do nothing to hurt him, that he may not fall out with thee. I had heard of such fellows, but before this could never believe in them. In the smithy the baiting began as usual; old Ulric put me quite in a fury; for they had remarkt my soreness, and this made them think it the better sport to badger me.
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