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The logs air ricked up jest like Rose's jackstraws; I never see'em so turrible ricked up in all my exper'ence; an' Lije Dennett don' know no more 'bout pickin' a jam than Cooper's cow. Turrible sot in his ways, too; can't take a mite of advice.
It was turrible cruel, but she didn't reelize. I reckon, ef the truth was known, most of us nine has seen them side curls in our sleep.
This was a new atmosphere, and she was fascinated by the pictures and the general air of artistic disarrangement which she felt but could not account for. "'Tain't exactly the kind of place to tidy," she reflected, "but it needs cleaning turrible." "Do you like pictures?" asked the young artist, following her gaze. "Stay a while and look at them, if you wish."
"Thar's my co'te of jestice," he declared, and his voice trembled as with hunger and thirst. But Parish Thornton had thrown back his head and unaccountably he laughed as he laid on the other's arm fingers that closed slowly into a grip of steel and rawhide. "Hump," he said, "hit would be a turrible pity fer us ter quarrel but I don't aim ter be robbed, even by you!
Josiah wuz turrible interested in tryin' to see if the reflections wuz exactly like the real seen up above, and he kept leanin' over the edge of the boat tryin' to turn his head upside down so's to git a better look, and at last he nearly fell overboard into the water only I grabbed him quick.
He'd pick off a log here an' there an' send it afloat, an' dig out them that hed got ketched in the rocks, and tidy up the banks jest like spring house-cleanin'. If he'd hed any kind of a boss, an' hed be'n trained on the Kennebec, he'd 'a' made a turrible smart driver, Steve would." "He'll be drownded, that's what'll become o' him," prophesied Mrs.
"The falls has been there sence the beginnin' o' time, an' I cal'late they'll be there till the end on 't; so you needn't 'a' been in sech a brash to git a sight of 'em. Children comes turrible high, mother, but I s'pose we must have 'em!" he said, winking at Mrs. Cobb. When supper was cleared away Rebecca insisted on washing and wiping the dishes, while Mrs.
Rebecca, comforted by the old man's tone, and timidly enjoying the dignity of sitting in Mrs. Cobb's seat and lifting the blue china teapot, smiled faintly, smoothed her hair, and dried her eyes. "I suppose your mother'll be turrible glad to see you back again?" queried Mr. Cobb.
Bobbsey and Aunt Sarah spent many hours talking over matters of interest to them, while Dinah, and Martha, who was Aunt Sarah's cook, spent most of their time in the kitchen, making good things to eat. "'Cause dem chilluns suttinly does eat a turrible lot!" exclaimed Dinah, as she finished making several pies. Picking the apples kept Uncle Daniel and his men busy for a number of days.
Robinson was not only "turrible neat," but "turrible close," so that the refreshments were likely to be peppermint lozenges and glasses of well water. After considering the relative values, as penances, of a piece of haircloth worn next the skin, and a pebble in the shoe, she dismissed them both.
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