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The rich family travelin' with children and servants and unlimited baggage; the party of school girls with the slim talkative teacher in spectacles, tellin' 'em all the pints of interest, and stuffin' 'em with knowledge gradual but constant; the stiddy goin' business men and the fashionable ones; the married flirt and the newly married bride and husband, sheepish lookin' but happy; old wimmen and young ones; young men and old ones; the sick passenger confined to his bed, but devourin' more food than any two well ones seven meals a day have I seen carried into that room by the steward, while a voice weak but onwaverin' would call for more.
A new note came into the driver's voice, a soothing tone, full of kindness and admiration for the work his team had done. "Wo-o-o, lads! Stiddy-y-y, boys! Wo-o-o, there, Dan. Stiddy, stiddy, old man! Ho, there!" The cylinder took on a lower key, with short rising yells, as it ran empty for a moment. The horses had been going so long that they came to a stop reluctantly.
And how her sweet nater, like the sun, would love to light up one bright lovin' home, and shine kinder stiddy there, instead of glancin' and changin' about from one place to another, like a meteor. Some would have liked it; some like change and constant goin' about, and movin' constantly through space but I knew Jenette wuzn't made on the meteor plan.
Well, that very night he rolled off'n a shed wher' he was a layin drunk, and broke his arm." "Why, that's awful. How did he know she was a-witching him?" "Lord, pap can tell, easy. Pap says when they keep looking at you right stiddy, they're a-witching you. Specially if they mumble. Becuz when they mumble they're saying the Lord's Prayer backards." "Say, Hucky, when you going to try the cat?"
You've wore it sensible and you've carried your septer stiddy, and for a young girl like you to do them things has seemed a great thing to me. A good many young girls would be carried away if they wuz in a place like yours; I am most afraid Tirzah Ann would at your age." "Tirzah Ann?" sez she inquirin'ly.
She was goin' off rather huffy, when Kitty called out, "'Stop, ma! I'll come down and help you, only ketch me if I tumble. "She looked scared but stiddy, and I'll bet it took as much grit for her to do it as for one of us to face a battery. It don't seem much to tell of, but I wish I may be hit if it wasn't a right down dutiful and clever thing to see done.
Then the proud moment when Bill the driver, with legs apart, almost pushing on the reins, drives his horses up the hill. "Go it, Dick. Let 'er out, Daisy. Stiddy, ol' boy. Whoa, there. Ease down now. Hey, there, John, block the wheel block the wheel I tell ye. Ah-h now, jes' breathe a bit. I jing, it's hot."
"Ah was went tree day le Père Honoré tol' mah Ah better was go to mon maître; he was dead las' week." "Wot yer givin' us, Antwine? Three days to see yer dead mater an' lavin' yer stiddy job for the likes of him, an' good luck yer come back this afternoon or the new man 'ud 'a' had it." "Ah, non ah, non! De boss haf tol' mah, Ah was keep mah shob. Ah, non ah, non.
Waterford's dressing-table went on top of this pile. "Now, Peter," were the next orders, "if you've got sprawl enough, and want to rest yourself by doin' something useful for once in your life, you just hold down the dining-table; and you and Oonah, Molly, keep the next two tables stiddy, while I climb up."
What's amiss?" sang out Cap'n Dick, as the Unity fetched within hail. "Aw, nothin', nothin'. 'Tho' troubles assail an' dangers' Stiddy there, you old angletwitch! She's a bit too fond o' smelling the wind, that's all." As a matter of fact she'd taken more water than Jacka cared to think about, now that the danger was over. "But what brings 'ee here? An' what cheer wi' you?" he asked.
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