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The policeman returns, preceded by a physician-the only one to be got at, he says-in very dilapidated broadcloth, and whose breath is rather strong of gin. "An' whereabutes did ye pick the woman up, an, an, wha's teu stond the bill?" he inquires, in a deep Scotch brogue, then ordering the little window opened, feels clumsily the almost pulseless hand.
W-o-l, if its teu sign a warrant, hang a nigger, tar and feather an abolitionist, ride the British Consul out a town, or send a dozen vagrants to the whipping-post I'm thar. Anything my hand's in at!" incoherently mumbles this judicial dignitary. Mr.
"Wall I guess he had a mind to know," said Philetus, "so I didn't keep it no closer than I had teu." "Well," said Fleda biting her lips, "you will have to go down to Mr. Douglass's nevertheless, Philetus, and tell him the doctor is coming to-morrow, but I should be very much obliged to him if he will be here next day. Will you?" "Yes marm!"
"There don't nobody else have nothin' to deu with it I guess she's pretty much the hull," said her coadjutor. "Her and me was a-picking 'em afore sunrise." "All that basketful?" " 't aint all strawberries there's garden sass up to the top." "And does she send that, too?" "She sends that teu," said Philetus, succinctly. "But hasn't she any help in taking care of the garden?" said Constance.
"He has tuk himself off out o" town." "Where to?" "I can't tell you where teu he ain't coming back, 'tain't likely." "How do you know?" "'Cause he's tuk all his traps and went, and he said farming didn't pay and he wa'n't a going to have nothin' more to deu with it; he telled Mis' Simpson so he lived to Mis' Simpson's; and she telled Mr. Ten Eyck." "Are you sure, Philetus?"
"Why, I've broke this here clavis: I ha'n't touched anything nor nothing, and it broke right in teu!" "What do you 'spose 'll be done now?" said Mr. Plumfield, gravely, going up to examine the fracture. "Well, 't wa'n't none of my doings," said the young man. "I ha'n't touched anything nor nothing, and the mean thing broke right in teu. 'Tain't so handy as the old kind o' plough, by a long jump."
"Why, I ha'n't done nothin' to it," said Philetus, dismally; "there was teu on 'em afore I started, and I took and tied 'em together, and hitched 'em onto the stick, and that one must ha' loosened itself off some way I believe the darned thing did it o' purpose." "I guess your mother knowed that one wouldn't keep till it got here," said Mrs. Douglass.
Since then I had not again thought of the matter; but now I sought out the thick stem once more, and thought I ought to have written a poem on it, began to compose verses, and murmured: A saudade no coração mi e doce como o teu bejo then I stood a long time with my head down, trying to formulate the following verses; and finally I added: vivrei d'esta consolacão, de ti, e se nunca te vejo!
Quackenboss in the way, who had offered to come with his team for the desired service. "Then you have not been to Mr. Douglass's?" "I have not," said Philetus "I thought likely you wouldn't calculate to want him teu." "How came the doctor to know what you were going for?" "I told him." "But how came you to tell him?
" 'Cause I've got teu chickens for him here, and mother said they hadn't ought to be kept no longer, and if he wan't to hum, I were to fetch 'em back, straight." "Well, he'll be here, so let's have 'em," said Mrs. Douglass, biting her lips. "What's become o' t'other one?" said Earl, as the young man's stick was brought round to the table: "I guess you've lost it, ha'n't you?"
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