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I wouldn't 'a done it Pop'd have licked me if he'd 'a known but he promised me a quarter." "Who promised you a quarter?" "Him the tramp. And I was doin' it, but he got awful mean, swore somethin' fierce and said I didn't know. And how was he to tell and us only halfway acrost?" "You mean you only took him halfway?" "It was all he'd let me," said Tito, on the defensive.
O, it was the offulest smell I ever heard of, except the smell when they found a tramp who hung himself in the woods on the Whitefish Bay road, and had been dead three weeks. It was just like an old back number funeral.
"I suppose we shall have to do the same, when we get into the enemy's country, here. That is really the only similarity between the two expeditions. The country, too, was mountainous and, except in the valleys, there were few trees; while here we tramp along in single file, through what is little better than a swamp, and only get an occasional glimpse of the sky through the overhanging foliage.
"I couldn't leave her alone in the house," said her grandmother, "and she wouldn't leave the kitten for fear it should be lonesome" -with a humorous, tender glance at the child "but it's a long tramp in the heat for the little one, and we've another mile to go." "Will you let her bide here till you come back?" I said. "She'll be all right by me." The old lady hesitated.
"What's coming now?" inquired Deck, as he heard the tramp of footsteps behind him. "The governor's coming, and I think we will go and meet him," replied the planter's son; and he led the way through the grove towards the great house. It was quite a procession that advanced at a rapid pace from beyond the building. At the head of it rode Colonel Hickman, mounted on the horse he generally used.
It would not be difficult. There a man might always be invisible and yet live. And do things. I was using that tramp as a money box and luggage carrier, until I decided how to get my books and things sent over to meet me." "That's clear." "And then the filthy brute must needs try and rob me! He has hidden my books, Kemp. Hidden my books! If I can lay my hands on him!"
"Now, sir," said he to the tramp, "we have been telling stories here to-night some of them fair, some pretty bad. Let us hear what you can do in that line. We will give you a chance. If you don't make good we will put you off at the next station and turn you over to the authorities.
I was out on a gunnin' tramp with Joe Partridge, a cousin of mine, poor old chap! he fired his last shot at Gettysburg, and died game in a way he didn't dream of the day we popped off the birds together. It ain't right to joke that way; I won't if I can help it; but a feller gets awfully kind of heathenish these times, don't he?"
As a matter of fact, he loved Twichell's companionship, and was always inviting him to share his journeys to Boston, to Bermuda, to Washington wherever interest or fancy led him. His plan now was to take the family to Germany in the spring, and let Twichell join them later for a summer tramp down through the Black Forest and Switzerland. Meantime the Clemens household took up the study of German.
By what I could spy in the windows, and by the respectable persons that passed out and in, I saw the houses to be very well occupied; and the whole appearance of the place interested me like a tale. I was still gazing, when there came a sudden brisk tramp of feet in time and clash of steel behind me.
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