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I took up the fiddle, and begun. But I hadn't more'n drew a note before I laid it down and put for the door. 'Dick, you keep shop, says I. And I harnessed up, and drove like the devil." Amelia felt warm with life and hope; she was taking up her youth just where the story ended. "You ain't stopped swearin' yet!" she remarked, with a little excited laugh.
"Darn ain't swearin'. Dorindy herself says that once in a while. I mean Alvin Baker, and Jed Dean and the rest of 'em. They was goin' on about Mr. Colton last night; said THEY wan't goin' to run at his beck and call. I told 'em, says I, 'You ain't had the chance. You'll run fast enough when you do." "Did you say that to Captain Jed?" "No-o. I said it to Alvin, but old Jed's just as bad.
"Who is it that's cursin' an swearin' that way?" she began, but broke off abruptly as she realised the scene within. "Oh, a'nt, me heart's broke entirely!" cried Elleney, running to her, and hiding her face on her ample shoulder.
Oi'll knock yer blank little head aff if Oi catch ye swearin' agin." "I don't care," stormed little Patsy, quite unafraid of his father when the other children fled. "It's that blank, blank Batcheese an' Tim there. They keep teasin' me an' Mayan all the time." "Let me catch yez, ye little divils!" shouted Carroll after the children, who had got off to a safe distance.
"'The devil you will, ma'am! says Tom to himself, under the berth. "'Well, it's darned close here, says the fellow in the box. He didn't say darned, boys; but he said a wickeder word that I can't repeat, noways," said Sam, in a parenthesis: "these 'ere British officers was drefful swearin' critters.
She telled as how he'd shaped his course to the south'ard, with his gun on his shoulder, swearin' he'd blow the head off ye or never come home to Chance Along no more. So Nick an' me puts two an' two forninst each other an' figgered as how Dick would have ye if somethin' didn't happen to t'row out his plans." "Ye bain't got the right o' it there, Bill," said Nick.
"3 big-feelin' ones together," I whispered to Josiah. And he sez, "Yes, that dog is a big-feelin' little cuss-tomer. And if I wuz a chipmunk he couldn't bark at me no more than he duz." And I looked severe at Josiah and sez I, "If you don't jine your syllables closer together you will see trouble, Josiah Allen. You'll find yourself swearin' before you know it."
I bet he won't think he's so winnin' of purty women no more! He's bad, that man, gamblin' an' shootin' craps an' workin' the banks. Served him right, yes, indeedy. But he'd shore hate to know a parson hearn him cussin' an' swearin' around. Hit don't bring a gambler any luck, bein' heard swearin', no." "Nor if any one else hears him; not if he thinks swearin' in hisn's heart!"
Kendall thinks it's high time he joined the church or signed the pledge or stopped swearin' or chewin' gum." "Zelotes, how ridiculous you do talk!" "All right, Mother, all right. What strikes me, Al, is they don't any of 'em stop to ask you what YOU mean to have him do. Course I know 'tain't any of your business, but still seems 's if you might be a little mite interested in the boy yourself."
He ware but he bruk down afore he could finish. "'Twas five minits afore he could tell what had happened, th' old gal cussin' an' swearin' an' th' crowd a-hootin' an' jeerin', but finally th' skipper got some soldiers to carry th' old gal away. Thin out comes Garnett on th' main deck a-smellin' av his little vial, but avoidin' av th' skipper's eye.
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