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He wuz settin' up on his creed with his legs hangin' off, and he sot straight, no danger of his gittin' off and goin' down amongst the poor steerage passengers and helpin' 'em. He thought he wuz a eminent Christian, but in my opinion he might have been converted over agin without doin' him any harm. Well, the big world we wuz inhabitin' moved on over the calm waters.
He done tole me a year back that some relative o' hisn up-Nawth was a thinkin' o' comin' down with some cash, an' settin' o' him up on a farm; but it all seemed to blow over. He was nigh broke up about it, too, sah, I tell yuh." Maurice could not hold in altogether. "It was his wife's father, old The. Badgeley. My chum knew him well. He didn't come because he died.
What are you settin' here for?" "Well, I thought I should enjoy watching you rake the yard. It is a pleasure deferred so far." "Watchin' me ! Roscoe Paine, you are out of your head! Ain't you goin' to see him?" "No." "You AIN'T!" "No." "Ros Paine, have you jined in with them darn fools uptown?" "Who's swearing now? What fools do you mean?"
It was bitter work for Casey; but even he recognized the fact that the "settin'" was not good that evening. Back in the road again, he stopped when he was told to stop, and waited, with a surface calm altogether strange to Casey, while the officer stepped off and gave a bit of parting advice. "Better keep right on going, boys.
She's bein' floated out now, an' I, the Gran' Hidalgo an' Majordomo, hev come to tell the princes and princesses, an' the dukes and dukesses, an' all the other gran' an' mighty passengers, that the barge o' the Dog o' Venice is in the stream, an' the Dog, which is Henry Ware, is waitin', settin' on the Pup to welcome ye."
And then my settin' room new plastered and Josiah would never consented to tear it off, and it wuz lumpy and streaked and broken, and here it wuz new plastered over smooth as glass. Oh! thinkses I how thankful I ort to be and how I ort to forgit the troubles of the night in the joys of the mornin'. And crownin' blessin' of all Josiah had seemin'ly forgot all about the Exposition of Josiah Allen.
"Well, how did you manage it?" "Manage! Why, I didn't manage at all." "How did you find that place where you were sitting?" "Wasn't settin. I was tied up in a knot, or rolled up into a ball. Any way, I wasn't settin." "Well, how did you find the place?" "Wal, I jes got up dar. I stood on de sho till de water drobe me, an I kep out ob its way till at las I found myself tied up de way you saw me."
"I was puttin' in a heap of my time settin' in the doorway of the bunkhouse, wonderin' what had made you so scared of me. While I was tryin' to figure it out I saw Lawson comin'. There was somethin' in his actions which didn't jibe with my ideas of square dealin', an' so I kept lookin' at him. An' when I saw him prowlin' around, tryin' to open doors an' windows, why, I just naturally trailed him.
"There baint a light to be seed aboard any of 'em," he reported, "and it's so dark as Tophet, but I be certain sure that two of they ships is settin' their canvas, and there be another that, to my mind, be adrift." "But how can that be, when we have the officers of the ships aboard here?" demanded George as he sprang from his cot and followed Dyer out on deck.
A man of character and originality, he insisted upon wearing the rings upon his maimed hand, both upon the index finger; and once, when Ajax suggested respectfully that the diamonds would shine to better advantage upon the right hand, he retorted reasonably enough that the mutilated member "kind of needed settin' off."
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