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He turned his sightless eyes on the family he had brought up to think well of Frenchmen. "They are different folk in Paris." "Iss, that's a big place. Cherbourg's a big place, too, they tell me. I came near going there, one time; but my travellin's over. It do give a man something to think over, though. I wish my son here could have travelled a bit before settlin' down."
Hammy was a leetle too tall an' thin, and Locals, a foot or so short; but they fished out a couple of swell outfits too. We found a lot of empty check-books, an' used to play draw, settlin' at night by check. It was purty good fun for a while until we woke up. Hammy owed me ten million francs an' Locals was into me for fifteen.
"Thar ain't no way o' settlin' what that thar critter Purdee owns 'ceptin' ez consarns Moses' tables o' the Law. He clings ter them," they said, in conclave about the forge fire when the big doors were closed and the snow, banking up the crevices, kept out the wind. "There ain't no use in percessionin' Purdee's land."
"Well I tell you what I'll do I know where there's a tub, and where they ain't usin' it nother, and I reckon I can get 'em to let me have it I reckon I can and I'll go round for't and fetch it here to-morrow mornin' when I come with the team. 'Twon't be much out of my way. It's more handier to leave the sugarin' off till the next day; and it had ought to have a settlin' besides.
Aye, an' ah'll be auld masel then, and, it's high time ah wes pittin' ma best fit foremost an' settlin' masel." She paused, and the shrewd, business-like air fell from her. Her eyes grew somber, she looked far away down the crimson and golden vista of Champlain's Road. "Ah'd no be left this way, lassie, gin ma' lad, Tam, had been spared me.
'Wal, Robert, you ha' poured off the molasses into the kettles; an' now fur the clarifyin'. I knowed as how ye had nothen' fit milk, nor calf's blood, nor eggs, nor nothen' so I brought up the eggs, an' when we're settlin' shares they kin be considered. 'The old sharper! muttered Arthur. 'I'm afeerd like they're beat up already, said Mr.
"If yer true father be among the livin', an' sufferin' has eaten int' his soul, then don't ye see, I've stood 'twixt him an' his chance of somewhat undoin' a bitter wrong? It ain't no light matter t' take the settlin' o' things out o' God Almighty's hand. I wish I'd hunted him up! 'T was my plain duty t' have done that, I see it now. I wish I'd given my gal the choice 'tween him an' me!
"Sorry o' me knows, sorr, why them omahdawns is makin' all av that row a-hollerin'," said Tim, scratching his head as he always did when puzzled for the moment for an answer. "It's ownly Misther Gray-ham, sorr, an' Misther Wakes havin' a little bit of foon togither, an' settlin' their differses in a frindly way, loike, sorr." "Fighting, I suppose, eh?"
An' I know when I got into the room, full as I was o' news o' them little children an' the wreck an' the two killed an' all them that was hurt there was the Sodality settlin' whether the lamb's wool comforter for the bazaar should be tied with pink for daintiness or brown for durability. "'Dainty! says I, when I got my breath.
"Then, you see," Adam used to say, "I was settlin' down into an old man; dryin' up, d' ye see? thinkin' the Lord had forgotten me, when He said to other men, 'Come, it's your turn now for home and lovin'. Them young ones was dear enough, but a man has a cravin' for somethin' that's his own. But it was too late, I thought.
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