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"An' two young fellers I know'll bait up a tub or so o' trawl, while they're cleanin'," said Disko, lashing the wheel to his taste. "Um! Guess I'd ruther clean up, Dad." "Don't doubt it. Ye wun't, though. Dress daown! Dress daown! Penn'll pitch while you two bait up." "Why in thunder didn't them blame boys tell us you'd struck on?" said Uncle Salters, shuffling to his place at the table.
'Wa'al, I says, 'I guess I c'n resk it if you can, but I didn't buy him fer a saddle hoss, an' if I'm to own him fer any len'th of time I'd ruther he'd fergit the saddle bus'nis, an' in any case, I says, 'I wouldn't like him to git a sore back, an' then agin, I says, 'I hain't got no saddle. "'Wa'al, she says, givin' her head a toss, 'if I couldn't sit straight I'd never ride agin.
I know you're erfeared o' th' teasin'. But ye needn't min' that; ye won't hev ter put up wi' it long; fer th' way I mean ter work on that house ter git it done well, 'twon't be long befo' it 'll be ready ter put my wife in it." "Well, Zekle," said the girl, hesitatingly, "ef ye'd ruther ask 'em ter-day, why I guess es how ye mought es well do it.
Folks they said ye was fools when ye took 'em in. Man said I was a fool once. Alwuss hed a purty fair idee o'myself sence then. When some folks call ye a fool 's a ruther good sign ye ain't. Ye've waited a long time fer yer pay ain't much longer if wait now. There was a little quaver in his voice, We all looked at him in silence.
A tall white figger wuz a-standin' before the glass, draped from head to foot in heavy white drapery. I'd often turned it over in my mind in hours of ease which I'd ruther have appear to me in the night a burglar or a ghost. And now in the tumultous beatin's of my heart I owned up that I would ruther a hundred times it would be a burglar.
Si was too deeply exercised about getting his squad together to pay attention to Shorty or the jeering, taunting railroaders. He became very fearful that some of them had been caught and badly hurt, probably killed, by the remorseless locomotives. "This's wuss'n a battle," he remarked to the boys around him. "I'd ruther take you out on the skirmish-line than through them trains agin."
And I sez, "Mebby so, for hull rows of carved marble elephants stand along them broad roads; I guess they worshipped 'em." And he sez, "I wuz alludin' to size." Robert Strong looked ruther sad as we looked on them ruins buried so deep by the shovel of time.
I'd ruther like to think of it a little while longer," said Mrs. Green. Mrs. Babcock got up. "Well," said she, "I'll send Adoniram round to-morrow mornin', an' you tell him what you've decided. I guess I shall go whether or no. I've got three men folks to leave, an' it's a good deal more of an undertakin' for me than some, but I ain't easy scart. I b'lieve in goin' once in a while."
I-I'd ruther be shot t-than p-pitched off into a c-canyon, s-somewhere a-and busted up!" Casey is a little man. When he was young he was slim, but he always has owned a pale blue, unwinking squint which he uses with effect. He halted where he was and squinted up at the man, and spat fluid tobacco and grinned. "You're here, and you're able to kick about my drivin'. That's purty good luck, I'd say.
"Not even to get off from a whipping?" pleaded Mary. "Mrs. Elliott will NEVER whip you NEVER," exclaimed Di. "Won't she?" said Mary skeptically. "If I ever find myself in a place where I ain't licked I'll think it's heaven all right. No fear of me telling lies then. I ain't fond of telling 'em I'd ruther not, if it comes to that."
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