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I don't suppose the' ever was a time when we both had so much to say; but we couldn't seem to say it, an' when we came to part all she said was, "Oh, Happy, I hate to see you go, but I'm sure you'll come back in the fall." "I'll come back as soon as I feel I can," sez I; "an' now don't worry none yourself, an' don't fret your Dad an' don't forget old Happy."
He laughed his boyish laugh, but I see the deep meanin' in his clear, gray eyes and knew what he felt, though his words wuz light. "Oh no," sez he, "we read that those gates are pearl; these are just common wood, turned out by my workmen."
"Well, they ain't ridin' on my time," sez I, "so it ain't nothing to me. Do I get the job?" "Where you been ridin' at?" sez he. "At the Lion Head, for Jim Jimison," sez I. "I've seen some o' their stuff," sez he. "It's a good outfit; but it's a rather lengthy walk from here." "Yes, I stopped off a while in Californie an' Idaho to rest," sez I. "Do I get the job?"
Your wicked and profane swearin' has cast many and many a cloud over my sky, and I'd try to curb in my tongue if I was in your place." "'Dumb' hain't swearin'," sez he.
Wall, Josiah got real rested and sort o' sot up agin. And he laid his hand agin lovin'ly on the boards as we left the seen. Wall, on our way home I had an awful trial with Josiah Allen. Mebby what he had seen that day had made him feel kind o' riz up, and want to act. He and I wuz a-wendin' our way along the lagoon, when all of a sudden he sez
And agin I sez calmly, and trutbfully, "Yes, it is a very remarkable one!"
"An' that's why I 'm goin' after the pinto," sez I, an' I flopped onto a pony an' sailed out to a little glen in the foothills where I knew I 'd find him, an' as soon as I had towed him back to the corral I put my saddle on the old beast I had rode there an' set off. Just as I rode around the edge o' the corral, ol' man Judson stood there grittin' his teeth.
He sez ez how it's all wrong an' hard an' mean an' all dat, but he sez, tu, dat yer ain't in no sort ob fix ter make a fight on't wid Marse Sykes. Now, what you think, Berry?"
"My troth," sez I, "you've lived too long you an' your seekin's an' findin's in a dacint married woman's quarters! Hould up your head, ye frozen thief av Genesis," sez I, "an' you'll find all you want an' more!" 'But he niver hild up, an' I let go from the shoulther to where the hair is short over the eyebrows. "That'll do your business," sez I, but it nearly did mine instid.
He wuz real huffy and sez, "Well, I say it, and stick to it, that it is better to worship the sun than it is to worship snakes," and come to think it over, I didn't know but it wuz. The Parsees live together in big families of relations, sometimes fifty. They do not bury their dead, but put 'em up in high towers, called Towers of Silence.
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