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Peters stood for a moment, looking at her and then inquired: "Did yo' father tell you suthin' I said to him?" Slowly rocking she looked up at him. "He always has enough talk of his own without repeatin' what other folks say." "But what I told him was about you." "Well, if what you said wasn't good you wouldn't be here to tell about it, so it don't concern me." He attempted to smile, but failed.
"Thar's one thing," suddenly observed my aged companion, as he eyed me narrowly, pausing in the interesting Colonel Sterett's relation concerning his family, and becoming doubly impressive with an uplifted fore-finger, "thar's one thing I desires you to fully grasp. As I reels off this yere chronicle, you-all is not to consider me as repeatin' the Colonel's words exact.
We was dazed with language that was all words, an' when we come to the gate we was so stupefied that we climbed right over it, an' so weak that we fell down off the other side of it, an' Sammy all the time repeatin' 'Eliph' Hewlitt, like a man in a dream.
When the evening meal is eaten and the things are cleared away, then we sit around repeatin' cares and triumphs of the day; and the high resounding rafter echoes to our harmless jokes, to our buoyant peals of laughter, while tired mother sits and smokes.
And I want to tell you somethin'. Be kind of careful about repeatin' what 'they say' to anybody. You got nothin' to back you up if somebody calls your hand. 'They' ain't goin' to see you through. And you named the Brewster boys. Now, just suppose one of the Brewster boys heard of it and come over askin' you what you meant?
"Well, Master Clint," he said gravely, "I don't blame you for being angry." "Or being puzzled, either?" I put in. "No, sir; nor for being puzzled. And I'm some puzzled myself. But I reckon Paul Downes was jest repeatin' what he'd heard his father say." "That my poor father had to jump overboard from his dory, to save himself from trouble and mother and I from poverty? Why, it's preposterous!"
"Why, sir, he said the other day but sorra one o' me likes to be repeatin' these things." "Come, come, you rascal, out with it."
"No, no, Will'm, not that; there's hope yet, who knows what may turn up? It may be that the prayer will be answered. I'd like, lad, if you'd go over it again. I think I could help you better this time; for I once knew it myself, long, long ago, when I was about as big as you, and hearin' you repeatin' it, it has come most o' it back into my memory. Go over it again, little Will'm."
As I rode along to-day thinkin' thinkin' thinkin' how can I save the children an' Cap'n Tom, how can I get a little money to send Cap'n Tom off to the Doctor an' also repeatin' to myself 'The Lord will provide He will provide I ran up to this, posted on a tree, an' kinder starin' me an' darin' me in the face." He laughed again: "Jes' scolded you, Jack, but see here.
I'd rather quarrel than to be made fun of." "I don't know but that's a fact." "Now why don't you tell me all about it?" "I don't see the use in my repeatin' suthin' you've already hearn." "Already hearn? I ain't hearn a word, and you know it. But suppose he do git the app'intment won't it mean trouble?" "Wall, I don't know but it will. They do say that it's a sorter troublesome job.
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