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Mighty nigh any woman looks cool and sweet when she's got on white fixin's, but when a girl like you puts 'em on well, child, there ain't no use talkin', you shorely are a sight to cure sore eyes. And you git to favour your sweet mother more and more every day you live. I can't pay you no higher compliment than that. Set down in that cheer yonder, where I kin look at you whilst we visit."
"I've been skeered fur a week without stoppin'," said Tom Ross; "jest beginnin' to git over it. I tell you, Henry, it wuz pow'ful lucky fur us you found them steppin' stones, an' this solid little place in the middle uv all that black mud." "Makes me think uv the time we spent the winter on that island in the lake," said Long Jim. "That waz shorely a nice place an' pow'ful comf'table we wuz thar.
Some twigs were broken, and several of the smaller bushes, bent to one side by a heavy body, had not returned to their normal position. "Here is where Paul laid down to rest," said Henry. "An' he wuz so tired he fell asleep an' slep' all night," said Shif'less Sol. "He shorely did," said Tom Ross, "'cause these bushes wuz bent so long they ain't had time to straighten out ag'in."
A thin wisp of new moon, before it set that night, looked mildly down on him curled up in a bundle at the foot of a little wagon out by the garage. Next afternoon before he left Earle chained him to his kennel. "Guess I better," he apologized. Aunt Cindy, who had watched the performance, shook her head. "Dat dawg knows," she declared; "he shorely knows!"
"Thar's no reason to say the Deef Woman's the Major's wife, more'n she tumbles into camp as onlooked for as Old Monte sober, an' it's easy to note she s'prises an' dismays the Major a lot, even drunk an' soaked with nose paint as he shorely is.
The skipper was, I think, prepared for a protest, for he began to bluster immediately. "Look here!" he bawled, "I ain't goin' to 'ave any of your dam nonsense. You WANT somethin' to growl about, you do." "Well, Cap'n George," said one of the men, "you shorely don't think we k'n eat shells, do yer?" Just then I caught sight of the kid's contents, and could hardly restrain my indignation.
This deal's liable to turn a split for me in my domestic affairs. An' that's the way we-alls feels. This stage agent is shorely in disrepoot some in Wolfville. If he'd been shakin' up Red Dog's letter-bags, we wouldn't have minded so much.
Both of 'em weepin' that a-way shorely makes the occasion mighty sympathetic an' damp. But Peets says it's the reg'lar caper, an' you can gamble Peets knows. "'Thar, says Enright, when the last kyard's out an' the French fam'ly is receivin' congratulations, 'I reckons that now, with only one laundry, Wolfville sees a season of peace.
Boys, I hev took 'The Gall-yun' from the Spaniards ag'in an' she's waitin' fur us." "What! what!" they cried in chorus. "You don't mean it, Sol?" "I shorely do mean it. All the boats that they expect to use to-day wuz anchored in the bi-yoo or hay-yoo or whatever they call it. 'The Gall-yun, our gall-yun, wuz at the end o' the line nearest to the big river.
He and Henry touched hands again, and each withdrew, the chief into the morass, while Henry walked back toward his comrades, holding himself erect, as if no enemy were near. The four rose up to greet him. They had heard part of what was said, and Henry quickly told them the rest. "He's shorely a great chief," said Shif'less Sol. "He'll keep his word, too.
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