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He liked to sit out on a log, in the sparse shadow of the one little grove the hill possessed, and, with the whispering leaves above him tattling uncomprehended sayings brought them by the wind, gather the old men about him, and talk them blind. As he sat there, Mary came walking swiftly by, a basket in her hand. Johnnie came bolt upright, and took off his cap.
"And the stranger?" "Oh, he vanished as oddly as he came, and has never been found. A strange story, lad. Keep silent, and let it rest." "No fear of my tattling," and the boy smiled curiously to himself as he bent over the book, polishing the brassbound cover.
"Sho! that's what's the matter, hey? I guess I'll fix Bob as sure as my name's Bowser." "What'll you do?" asked Bert. "Tell the master?" "No, sir. No tattling for me," replied Shorty, vigorously. "I'll just punch his head for him, see if I don't." And he was as good as his word.
Theology shared in the movement above mentioned in the church. The Rationalists were most profuse in their publications, Paulus at Heidelberg, and, more particularly, the Saxon authors, Tschirner, Bretschneider, etc. Ancient Lutheran vigor degenerated to shallow subtleties and a sort of coquettish tattling upon morality, in which Zschokke's "Hours of Devotion" carried away the palm.
Our cook, Susan, a person of enormous size, and Kate, the tattling, tiresome parlour-maid who waited upon us, on the summer evening I speak of were standing I cannot tell why on each side of my bed. I shut my eyes, and lay quite still, in order to escape conversing with them, and they spoke to one another.
Sophia hath already produced him two fine children, a boy and a girl, of whom the old gentleman is so fond, that he spends much of his time in the nursery, where he declares the tattling of his little grand-daughter, who is above a year and a half old, is sweeter music than the finest cry of dogs in England.
He had persecuted me beyond measure, yet I had not deigned to complain of him to either uncle, grannie, or auntie, as I might reasonably have done, and have obtained immediate redress. He had been the one to blame in the case, yet for the rebuffs he had brought upon himself, went tattling to my grandmother. Is that all you have to say, grannie?" "No.
"Tell me the truth!" she commanded, almost fiercely. He turned upon Molly with sudden anger. "Have you been tattling? I'll bet you have!" "No, but I told Sara; you didn't tell me not to." "Lots of good 'twould have done, if I had! You never kept a thing in your life never!" "Did, too, Morton Olmstead!" her pout melting swiftly into a mischievous smile. "Well, what, I'd like to know?"
At this very moment the confused murmur of voices and music stops all regular proceedings: old women and children tattling; apes, bears, and show-boxes under the windows; French rattling, English swearing, outrageous Italians, frisking minstrels; tambours de basque at every corner; myself distracted; a confounded squabble of cooks and haranguing German couriers just arrived, their masters following open-mouthed; nothing to eat, the steam of ham and flesh-pots all the while provoking their appetite; Mynheers very busy with the realities, and smoking as deliberately as if in a solitary lusthuys over the laziest canal in the Netherlands; squeaking chambermaids in the galleries above, and prudish dames below, half inclined to receive the golden solicitations of certain beauties for admittance, but positively refusing them the moment some creditable personage appears; eleven o'clock strikes; half the lights in the fair are extinguished; scruples grow less and less delicate; Mammon prevails, darkness and complaisance succeed.
"Thou art a prying knave to watch thy master so closely," said Elizabeth, blushing, but not with anger; "and a tattling knave to tell over again his fooleries. What colour might the braid of hair be that thou pratest of?"
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