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He turned away without speaking as if indicating a wish to hear no more. "Some o' these days," said Uncle Ben, with dull persistency, "I'll tell ye suthen'." "I'd advise you just now to drop it and stick to your lessons," said the master sharply. "That's so," said Uncle Ben hurriedly, hiding himself as it were in an all-encompassing blush. "In course lessons first, boys, that's the motto."
The act appeared to relieve his companion, who with his eyes still turned towards the window went on: "Ef you'd had them books which you haven't I had it in my mind to ask you suthen'. I had an idea of of sort of reviewing my eddication. Kinder going over the old books agin jist to pass the time. Sorter running in yer arter school hours and doin' a little practisin', eh?
"Ef ye don' go to work, Meshech, Squire Woodbridge 'll hev ye in the stocks fer gittin drunk. Deakin kin git ye put in any time he wants ter complain on ye. Ye better not rile him." But at this Meshech, instead of being impressed, burst into a loud haw haw. "Yes'dy mornin ye could a scart me outer a week's growth a talkin baout Squire, but, gol, ye'll have ter try suthen else naow.
It was ordinary wheat, only it was grown on adobe soil the richest in the valley. These stalks, she could see herself, were ten and twelve feet high. That was the trouble, they all ran too much to stalk, though the grain yield was "suthen' pow'ful." She could tell that to her friends, for he reckoned she was the only young lady that had ever walked under such a growth.
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