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"I've turned my 'tention to raisin' real black foxes, first thing," explained the other, with a touch of genuine pride in his manner, Max could easily see; "and if the try turns out as profitable as I reckon she promises to be, why, then, I'm figgerin' on tryin' to raise mink and marten and sech other furs as fetch top-notch prices."
An' her mother she step' in the next room with the door half-open an' never paid no 'tention. Recollec' one col'night when I was sparkin' the mother hollered out o' bed, "Lucy, hev ye got anythin 'round ye?" an' she hollered back, "Yis, mother," an' she hed too but 'twan't nothin' but my arm.
Ever' night he used to set on the floor an' fool with them things, a-fittin' 'em here an' crackin' 'em off there, but I never paid no 'tention to him. One night, when I come in from Mrs. Eichorn's, what did I see on the floor but a sure-'nough tombstun-slab, an' spelt out in little blue tiles down the middle was: "'Pa. Gone, but not forgotten.
'Tention, army! Right about face, for home, MARCH!" and away the whole army marched for home, the band playing the lively air of "Cream cakes for supper, Heigh O! Heigh O! O! Cream cakes for supper, Heigh O! Heigh O!" so as to keep up the spirits of the tired men.
"I mean," she stammered, "he used to notice us common girls me and the others " "I don't understand you," said Helen, half indignantly. "Oh, don't pay no 'tention to me," she said. "I, I fear I am sick, you know sicker than I thought," and she coughed violently. She lay with her head in Helen's lap.
Here was a new slant on matrimonial desirability. Clearly the view of the little cow-puncher was that Clay had only to crook his fingers to summon any girl in the world that he desired. "Do you think so with so many attractive girls in New York?" she pleaded. "He don't pay no 'tention to them. Honest, I believe you can if you don't spill the beans." "What would you advise me to do?" she dimpled.
I remember saying to myself at this mo- ment, that it would be a beautiful evening to walk round the walls of Avignon, the remarkable walls, which challenge comparison with those of Carcassonne and Aigues-Mortes, and which it was my duty, as an observer of the picturesque, to examine with some at- tention. Presenting themselves to that silver sheen, they could not fail to be impressive.
"I reckon dat 's what dey come fu'. I was n't payin' so much 'tention to what dey eat as to de way dem women was dressed. Why, Mis' Jedge Hill was des' mo'n go'geous." "Oh, yes, ma, an' Miss Lessing was n't no ways behin' her," put in Kitty.
Sapper Maggs stood by my side. "There be a feller a-watching for us up there?" he whispered. I nodded. "If us could drar his 'tention away, yew could slip by, next time the patrols is past, couldn't 'ee?" Again I nodded. "It'd be worse for yew than for me, supposin' yew'd be ca-art, that's what t'other officer said, warn't it?" And once more I nodded. The hot whisper came again.
There's one thing books never rightly teached no boy, an' that's lookin' ahead. I've often wondered why they didn't pay more 'tention t' that, but mostly a boy has t' learn it for himself. If he happens t' be born in the wilderness he just nach'lly has t' learn it, or I reckon he'd die."
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