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He's been here workin' like a slave fer over thirty years now, an' in all that time he never had a holiday. "At that the parson himself speaks up. 'I think yer wrong thar, Mrs. Stickles, sez he. 'I had two hull weeks once, fer which I've allus been most thankful. "'An what are two weeks? sez I. 'An' didn't ye pay yer own travellin' expenses? "'Yes, sez he, 'I did. "'Thar now, sez I to Mr.
And so saying she put the choice cigar back in its place among its fellows and handed him one from another box with the remark: "Same price, Nick." Nick chuckled and went out. "An' look at Trin with a widow in Sacramento. An' you " The Girl broke off short and laughed in his face. "Oh, not one o' you travellin' under your own name!" "One whisky!" ordered Nick, coming into the room with a rush.
His father've come to town, like a good reasonable man at last, to u-nite ye both, and bring your bodies together, as your hearts is, for everlastin'. Now ain't that news?" "Oh!" cried Lucy, "that takes my last hope away. I thought he had gone to his father." She burst into fresh tears. Mrs. Berry paused, disturbed. "Belike he's travellin' after him," she suggested. "Fifteen days, Mrs. Berry!"
Why, I've thought that the road between Jonesville and Loontown wuz beautiful and easy travellin'. Old Hagadone is path-master and vain of the road, and calls the men out twice a year to pay poll taxes and such by workin' it. Sugar maples, elder bushes, and shuemakes, and wild grapes and ivy run along the side of the stun wall, makin' it, I always had thought, on-approachable in beauty.
They rode down the long slope and, mounting a low roll, paused again apathetically to watch a band of sheep below. "Say," exclaimed Creede, his eyes beginning to burn, "d'ye notice how them sheep are travellin'? And look at them other bands back yonder! By Joe!" he cried, rising in his stirrups, "we've got 'em goin'! Look at the dust out through the pass, and clean to Hell's Hip Pocket.
There's a deal o' low cunning about a bear; no slapdash courage, so to say, same's there's in a lion or a leopard, but jes' a cruel, slow, deliberate intention to kill, like a nor'-east wind as blights and nips, sure as sure. Once, I remember, there was a travellin' bear came Northbourne way. 'Twas when I was a b'y, same's your two selves.
"I guess, now, that you're Miss Hathaway's niece, what's come to stay in her house while she goes gallivantin' and travellin' in furrin parts, be n't you?" "I am Miss Hathaway's niece, and I have never been here before. Where does she live?" "Up yander." He flourished the discarded fish-pole which served as a whip, and pointed out a small white house on the brow of the hill.
Look at him And you, 'Biades, can stand there an' look up at him so long as you like, provided you don't bust out cryin' at his altered appearance: no, nor crick your neck in doin' it, but bear in mind that mother used up the last of the arnica when you did it last time tryin' to count the buttons up Policeman Rat-it-all's uniform, an' that if the wind should shift of a sudden and catch you with your eyes bulgin' out of your head like they'm doin' at this moment, happen 'twill fix you up comical for life: an' then instead of your growin' up apprenticed to a butcher, as has been your constant dream, we'll have to put you into a travellin' show for a gogglin' May-game, an' that's where your heart will be turnin' ever, far from the Old Folks at Home. . . . You'll excuse me, Mr Nanjivell, but the time an' trouble it costs to wean that child's eyes off anything in the shape of a novelty you'd hardly believe. . . . Well, what do you say to 'Bert?"
The wind appeared to be steadily increasing. The day was Sunday, October 18th. Presently George sat up, rubbed his eyes and gazed about him for a moment in bewilderment. "Mornin', Wallace," he said, when he had collected his senses, "that blamed rain will make the travellin' hard, won't it?"
Slick called my attention to the carriages which were exhibited for sale, to their elegant shape and "beautiful fixins," as he termed it; but ridiculed, in no measured terms, their enormous weight. "It is no wonder," said he, "they have to get fresh hosses here every ten miles, and travellin' costs so much, when the carriage alone is enough to kill beasts.
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