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"Yes," said our friend, with a slight shrug of the shoulders. "Things looked ruther colicky the last two three days, eh?" suggested David. "Did you think 'the jig was up an' the monkey was in the box?" "Rather," said John. "The fact is," he admitted, "I am ashamed to say that for a few days back I haven't looked at a quotation. I suppose you must have carried me to some extent. How much was it?"
"You wrote her a letter, didn't you?" "You bet I did! She come 'round to see me in a hurry. Said she didn't have no money. I told her her granddad did, an she could git that or go to work and earn some. I guess she thought she'd ruther work. Oh, I've got her and her prayin', house-burnin' granddad where I want 'em, and I've got you, too, Eri Hedge, stickin' your oar in. Talk to me 'bout blackmail!
"Good land!" sez he, "you don't say they stretch their necks clear up here." And he jined in our astonishment then and proposed that he should be let down from the winder in a sheet and git me a few feathers. But I rejected the idee to once. I sez: "I'd ruther go featherless for life than to have a pardner commit rapine for 'em."
"Wall, I never!" ejaculated the elder Burr, but there was no surprise in his tone; it expressed rather the helplessness of paternity. The boy faced them, pressing more firmly against the bricks. "There ain't nothin' in peanut-raisin'," he said. "It's jest farmin' fur crows. I'd ruther be a judge." The judge laughed and turned from him. "Stick to the soil, my boy," he advised. "Stick to the soil.
And I'd just as soon drown in fifty foot as four ruther, 'cause 'twouldn't take so long. "He didn't answer out loud; but I heard him talkin' to himself pretty constant. "We was well out in the bay by now, and the seas was a little mite more rugged nothin' to hurt, you understand, but the floats was all foam, and once in a while we'd ship a little spray.
"Thet's fer ye ter decide yore own self, but ef ther day ever comes when ye'd ruther welcome a lover then ter drive him off, I don't want ye ter feel thet my memory's standin' in ther way of your happiness." "Thet day won't never come," she vehemently declared, and her father nodded indulgently. "Let thet matter lay over fer ther future ter decide," he suggested.
I dim' up an' grabbed my rifle an' thar were 'nother cuss out on the logs not more'n ten rod erway. He took a shot at me, but the bullet didn't come nigh 'nough so's I could hear it whisper he were bobbin' eround so. I lifted my gun an' says I: "'Boy, you come here to me. "But he thought he'd ruther go somewhar else an' he did poor, ignorant devil!
In the way of food there was only a can of molasses and a half dozen biscuits frozen solid. "Real cozy and homelike," Lingle commented, as he tried to pour himself some cold coffee and found it frozen. "I'll look around a bit and then go up and tell her." "I'd ruther it ud be you than me," Bowers observed grimly. "Can't abide hearin' a female take on and beller. I don't like the sect, noway.
Bianky would much ruther had him run and save himself than to burn up; anyway, old Miss Bianky would, and I believe his pa would. Men are good-hearted creeters the biggest heft of the time, but failable in judgment sometimes, jest like female wimmen. But Selinda wuz firm in her belief. And here this day in Chicago she gin one of the most remarkable proofs of it ever seen in this country.
"On the 22d of June he sold his dog said 'Dern a dog, anyway, where you're just starting off on a rattling bully pleasure tramp through the summer woods and hills perfect nuisance chases the squirrels, barks at everything, goes a-capering and splattering around in the fords man can't get any chance to reflect and enjoy nature and I'd a blamed sight ruther carry the claim myself, it's a mighty sight safer; a dog's mighty uncertain in a financial way always noticed it well, GOOD-by, boys last call I'm off for Tennessee with a good leg and a gay heart, early in the morning."
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