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If we live long enough we're goin' to have plenty to talk over in our old age that's come o' that cuss. Some seed's shy o' sproutin' till a spring when the s'ile's jest right to breed it." "There's lobeely now," agreed Mrs. Downs, pleased to descend to prosaic and familiar levels.
"I know," says he. "And really, McCabe, I've never had a hand in anything which has given me so much genuine pleasure. It it's weird, you know. I can't think what's happening to me." "Maybe," says I, "you're sproutin' a soul." Kind of odd the way the Morans and Elisha Porter Bayne coincided.
And when it came to horse judgment and treatment of sick and injured horses even the owner of the stable yielded place to Billy. "I could get a regular job there any time," he boasted quietly to Saxon. "Why, the country's just sproutin' with jobs for any so-so sort of a fellow. I bet anything, right now, if I said to the boss that I'd take sixty dollars an' work regular, he'd jump for me.
"Begorra, an' I'm proud av that very same, Misther Gray-ham," he retorted, not one whit put out by my words, as I imagined he would be. "If other folks had as little to be ashamed av, it's a blissid worrld sure this'd be, an' we'd be all havin' our wings sproutin' an' sailin' aloft, loike the swate little cheroob, they says, looks arter poor Jack!"
"What for?" Billy Louise demanded, watching Jase reach languidly out for another potato. "She seen me diggin' bait," Jase said tonelessly. "I did think some of ketchin' a mess of fish before I went to sproutin' p'tatoes, but Marthy she don't take no int'rest in nothin' but work." "Are the fish biting good?" Billy Louise glanced toward the wider stream, where it showed through a gap in the alders.
It don't even take college larnin'. It is because from the very foundation of this green airth the rich and the wicked and the proud have had the mastery over it, an' their horns have been exalted. The Lord knows they've got horns to their own elevation an' the hurt of others, as much as any horned animals, though none of us can see 'em sproutin', no matter how hard we squint."
"I was just goin' through the side yard to my house when I see 'em comin' back from the cemetery, an' I waited a little, lookin' to see what was sproutin' in the flower-bed. It was a beautiful, beautiful evenin' when I think of it it seems I can breathe it in yet.
"We'll set you folks a sproutin' if heat an' moisture's got anything t' do with it," he continued. He pulled some grain sacks out of the empty wheat bin and advised Luther to wrap them around himself. "I'm some wet, myself," he announced, "but I've got warm ragin' round here like a gopher. Now tell us how you folks come t' get here in all this storm. What'd you do with th' horses?"
"Did you have horns, Uncle Zack?" "Well, some of dem had little horns dat look like dey was jes sorter sproutin' like." Zack begins to nod and doze a little. "Well, how often did they shear the lambs, Uncle Zack?" "Well, w-e-l-l, w e l l ," and Uncle Zack was fast asleep and snoring, and dreaming no doubt of the beautiful pastures glimmering above the clouds of heaven.
Either they wuz jes' school-keepers, kaze they wuz too 'tarnal lazy to do anythin' else, or they wuz ambitious young fellers whut aimed to mek the schoolmarster's desk a steppin'-stone to the jedge's bench. Now, you don't look lak one o' the lazy kind; so I reckon you air a sproutin' lawyer, hey?" "No, sir, I've no ambition of that kind.
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