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The atmosphere is none of the pleasantest neither, and if a man chooses to withdraw into himself and live there, why I don't see what earthly good he is to society, unless he wants to wind up life by writin' a cookery-book. I hate them that's just the tarm, and I like tarms that express what I mean. I shall never forget when I was up to Michelimackinic. A thunderin' long word, ain't it?
I'm a Cantabrigian." "You are a what?" asked Mat. "I am a Cantabrigian." "Come, sir, you must explain yourself, if you plase. I'll take my oath that's neither a classical nor a mathematical tarm." The gentleman smiled. "I was educated in the English College of Cambridge."
But when old Hutter's eyes are well befogged, and his pretty darters perhaps in a deep sleep, and Hurry Harry, the Great Pine as you Indians tarm him, is dreaming of any thing but mischief, and all suppose Hawkeye is acting as a faithful sentinel, all I have to do is set a torch somewhere in sight for a signal, open the door, and let in the Hurons, to knock 'em all on the head."
"'Can you make her out? sais he; that's another sea tarm he has picked up; he will talk like a horse-marine at last. "'Yes, sais you, 'she is a Quang-Tonger. "'A Quang-Tonger? sais the gall, and before the old coon has disgested that hard word, she asks, 'what in natur is that?
I won't do it no more, I won't, indeed." "Well, what did you mean then?" "Why I meant her ten fingers, to be sure. When a woman clapper claws her husband, we have a cant tarm with us boys of Slickville, savin' she gave him her ten commandments." "And a very improper expression too, Sir," said Mr. Hopewell; "a very irreverent, indecent, and I may say profane expression; I am quite shocked.
But I'll take a bet of twenty dollars, not one in a hundred will define that tarm right off the reel, without stopping. It fairly stumpt me, and I ain't easily brought to a hack about common things. I could a told her what natur was circumbendibusly, and no mistake, though that takes time.
One sort of a cure for consumption is what they tarm the Hyder-Ally " "I think you must mean hydropathy, sir " "Well it's something of the sort, no matter what but cold water is at the bottom of it, and they do say it's a good remedy. Now Rose's aunt thinks if cold water is what is wanted, there is no place where it can be so plenty as out on the ocean.
"She has gone into the lake, you see, and maybe she prefars a trout to a mongrel cat. As for war paths, neither the Sarpent nor I have much exper'ence, we are ready to own, but if you don't call this one, you must tarm it, what the gals in the settlements tarm it, the high road to matrimony.
In the first place, then, I'm Christian, and white-born, like yourself, and my parents had a name that came down from father to son, as is a part of their gifts. My father was called Bumppo; and I was named after him, of course, the given name being Nathaniel, or Natty, as most people saw fit to tarm it."
By that rule, then, you would call those who belong to the persuasion of my father, the sitting-order, observed Elizabeth. Im sure Ive never heard em spoken of by any other name than Quakers, so called, returned Remarkable, betraying a slight uneasiness; I should be the last to call them otherwise, for I never in my life used a disparaging tarm of the Judge, or any of his family.
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