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Skerne righted about to satisfy her minutely, and then coming up to Evan, he touched his hat, and said: 'I mayn't have another opportunity we shall be busy up there of thankin' you again, sir, for what you did for my poor drunken brother Bill, and you may take my word I won't forget it, sir, if he does; and I suppose he'll be drowning his memory just as he was near drowning himself.
"Gimme a girl with flesh an' color, an' blue eyes a-laughin'. Miss Castaneda is some peach, I'll not gainsay. But her face seemed too white. An' when she flashed those eyes on me, I thought I was shot! When she stood up there at first, thankin' us, I felt as if a a princess was round somewhere. Now, Nell is kiddish an' sweet an' " "Chop it," interrupted Belding. "Here comes Nell now."
Timidly he approached Collie, wagged his head up and down experimentally, as if trying his neck hinges, and reached out and nuzzled the young man's hand, nipping playfully at his fingers. Collie was dumbfounded. "He's thankin' me the little cuss! Why, you rubber-kneed, water-eyed mud turtle you! I didn't know you had that much sense."
When a man is so willin' to give up his wife to another man he's sure got a heap tired of her an' don't want her any more. He's got his eye peeled for Number Two, an' he's thankin' his wife's lover for makin' the trail clear for the matrimonial wagon.
But, changin' the subject of my few small remarks here, and thankin' yez wid an overflowin' heart but a dhry tongue, I have the honor to propose, gintlemen, long life and health to ivery mother's son o' yez, and success to the 'Duck-hunters of Kankakee. "
For as I told him, after I'd introduced myself and shook hands cordially with him, sez I: "I couldn't leave without thankin' you for the great treat you've gin us, and to tell you how I appreciate what you've done for us."
The hussy! She was thankin' him for a diamond bracelet. Now I know my son Gussie well enough to know he did not give her that bracelet for nothing. Then she said as how he might come on Tuesday to see her, as she would be passin' through London and would be at her town-house for the day." "But please don't tell me it oh, one ought never to read other people's letters!" I exclaimed. Mrs.
"I know you didn't, my lad," said the colonel, "but I mean to give it to you all the same." He took out his pocketbook, but Andy made one more remonstrance. "I don't think I ought to take it, sir, thankin' you all the same." "Then I will give you one hundred dollars for your mother. You can't refuse it for her." Andy's eyes danced with delight.
Sidney, beneath a sumptuous patch-work quilt, was smoking. 'Nah! I'm only thankin' God I ain't my own landlord. Take that cheer. What's she done? 'It hasn't gone down enough for me to make sure. 'Them floodgates o' yourn'll be middlin' far down the brook by now; an' your rose-garden have gone after 'em. I saved my chickens, though.
But if ye plaze, would ye be lookin' over these recommends av mine they're from furriners and if yez be havin' ony friends who be wanting a maid and yez might be so good as to recommind me, I'd be thankin' of yez, for it's wurrk I wants. Think av that now. Only wurrk! Who says there arn't honest servin' gurrls, nowadays?
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