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Something in his tone made the other raise himself from his weary droop. He sighted Io. "Howdy, ma'am," he said. "Didn't see there was ladies present." "Good-morning," said Io. "Visitin' hereabouts?" inquired the man, eyeing her curiously. "Yes." "Where, if I might be bold to ask?" "If you've got any questions to ask, ask them of me, Fred," directed Banneker.
While she wuz away visitin' this school chum in a southern city she met a young chap handsome as Appolyan, I knew from what she said, and so talented and gifted, I could see in a minute they had fell in love voylently from the very first time they met, and day by day the attraction growed till they wuz completely wropped up in each other. She said he seemed to worship her.
Webb, almost outwitted, stood on the edge of the porch and watched the spinster trip down the walk. She glanced over her shoulder coquettishly. "You are losin' all your gallant ways, Mr. John," she simpered. "You don't even open the gate for visitin' ladies here lately." "I greased that latch t'other day," he answered, laconically. "It works as easy as the trigger of a mouse-trap.
"She is," William affirmed coldly. "The devil!" said the officer; and then in a low voice apart to the other: "Lucky we didn't go no further hey, Bill?" And again to William: "Miss Simpson says this other lady is her sister, visitin' her from Syracuse. Can you identify her?" William did not alter a line in his face. "Miss Simpson has a sister living near Syracuse. I have never seen her.
"You see, his father before him did a great deal for the poor in a quiet way here, as I have reason to know, this district lying near his office, and handy, as it were. Long after the time when he saved Willum's life, he married a sweet young creeter, who helped him in visitin' the poor, but she caught fever among 'em and died, when their only son George was about ten year old.
Our people were always a' visitin' each other, and yet our meetings were, as the poet says, 'few and far between." Britta nodded indifferently, and perceiving a particularly ripe gooseberry on one of the bushes close to her, gathered it quickly and popped it between her rosy lips.
"Why last winter I had six of the relation on my side and on hisen, snowbound to our house for a week, and I thought I should go distracted tryin' to keep the house clean, and suit 'em all in vittles, and some on 'em jealous thinkin' I gin the others a better bed, and the other relation comin' in to see 'em and kinder disputin' and twittin' 'em as relation will, and kinder jealous of me because they wuz visitin' me instead of them, and my folks callin' me extravagant in vittles I had a dretful time.
"Then you'll have to come with me," said Trot decidedly, "for I'm going to 'cept this inv'tation. If you don't care to come, Cap'n Bill, you go home and tell mother I'm visitin' the mermaids." "She'd scold me inter shivers!" moaned Cap'n Bill with a shudder. "I guess I'd ruther take my chance down below." "All right, I'm ready, Miss Mermaid," said Trot. "What shall I do? Jump in, clothes and all?"
Ye put me in mind of a wizened old man that sat all day makin' shoes in Killarney, all savin' the fringe he had on his chin." "A soldier must be dignified," I answered. "The saints bar that wurrd from hiven," said Terence, trying to pronounce it. "Come, we'll go to mass, or me mother will be visitin' me this night."
Teeters threw out his mail carelessly. "Just weigh up them letters, will you?" The name of the head of the Astor family caught the postmaster's eyes and he looked his astonishment. "I'm expectin' him out next summer," Teeters said casually. "You don't say?" with a mixture of respect and skepticism. "Visitin'?"
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