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Allie's out som'er's, but it would do me good to know you was here an' it 'll do you good to stay. You can rest yourself while I take my nap." Ma Briskow did not wish to take a nap, but she knew that Gray needed the solace of his own thoughts just now, so, when he agreed, she sent him downstairs. First balm, indeed, had come to the man; the smart was less intense.
For reply Stella made a motion toward Norris. Ted looked at her thoughtfully for a moment, then comprehended. "I see," he said seriously. "Well, they won't get him." "Bud, where are the other boys?" asked Stella. "Uptown som'er's. Why?" said Bud. "They ought to be here," said the girl seriously. "I think we'll be needing them soon." "I tumble, an' I'll jest fog on ahead an' gather them up."
Confused and turbulent as Tiverton had become, Nicholas Oldfield settled her at once. Knowledge dripped from his finger-ends; he had it ready, like oil to give a clock. Doctor and minister stood breathless while he laid out the track for the procession by local marks they both knew well. "They must ha' come into the town from som'er's nigh the old cross-road," said he.
John started again and Leggett resumed. "Whew! I'm that thusty! Ain't you got no sawt o' pain-killeh about yo' clo'es? Aw! Mr. March, mos' sholy you is got some. No gen'leman ain't goin' to be out this time o' night 'ithout some sawt o' corrective Lawd! I wisht you had! Cayn't we stop som'er's an' git some? Lawd! I wisht we could! I'm jest a-honin' faw some sawt o' wetness.
You watch for noon, all of you, and we'll stand up, and when we can't cast a shadow we'll find that this Grinnage clock is coming mighty close to marking twelve. Yes, sir, I think we're in Africa; and it's just bully." Jim was gazing down with the glass. He shook his head and says: "Mars Tom, I reckon dey's a mistake som'er's, hain't seen no niggers yit."
His wife's an excitable kind of a woman, and she's sent him off lickety-split after the doctor without looking to see what the matter was. There hain't never been anybody hurt at our depot, and it don't stand to reason " "Oliver Bolton, will you hush that noise?" shrieked his wife. "If the world was burnin' up you'd say it was nothing but a chimbley on fire som'er's."
He was exactly on time, but the judge could wait. He was a cranky old scoundrel anyhow, was Judge Halloran, and it would do him good to cool his heels for a few minutes. Tom paused with his hand upon the door knob. "My goodness! son, you're all dressed up!" he said, as he noted "Bob's" crisp white dress, the rose upon her bosom, the floppy hat that framed her face. "Church sociable som'er's?"
"That's what he does, an' he's a derned ole skin." "None skinnier. But where is he? I should like to see him." "He's sashayin' around here som'er's attendin' ter his dirty work. Lookin' after his grandson, little Willie, I reckon." "What, is that thief still hangin' on to him?" "Yes. I see you seem to know him." "Know him! Well, I should gurgle I do know him.
"I've saw yer som'er's," said Bud thoughtfully, "but it wa'n't like this. You're som'er's in my picture gallery o' faces, but yer ain't ther same as when I saw yer last." "Right ye are," said the man. "How's Chiquita getting along?" "Ah, I've got yer now. How did yer come out? Middlin' well, ter jedge from ther mule yer ridin', an' yer ginral appearance o' prosperity."
Got three little chunks o' grandchildren out there, and I never laid eyes on one of 'em. You see, I'm a-gittin' to be quite a middle- aged man in fact, a very middle-aged man, you might say. Sence mother died, which has be'n lem-me-see mother's be'n dead som'er's in the neighberhood o' ten years.
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