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"Wa'al, up there, you see, is home." "You certainly can't complain about the looks of your home, then," said the boy, "for that's just about the finest I've ever seen." "'There's no place like home," quoted Rifle-Eye quietly, "but I ain't ever feelin' that my home's so humble. It ain't a question of its bein' good enough fer me, it's a question o' whether I'm good enough fer it."
Just then he came into the office, and John handed him the paper. "Wa'al," he said, holding it off at arm's length, and then putting on his glasses, "them fellers that thought they was all hogs up West, are havin' a change of heart, are they? I reckoned they would 'fore they got through with it. It's ben ruther a long pull, though, eh?" he said, looking at John with a grin.
If you kin, I think I'll go myself, but I don't want to git my boots all dust, he says. I allowed I c'd try; an' I guess them bare feet o' mine tore up the dust some gettin' over to the wagin. Wa'al, I had another scare gettin' the tickits, fer fear some one that knowed me 'd see me with a half-a-dollar, an' think I must 'a' stole the money.
'I'll be fifty-eight or mebbe fifty-nine come next spring, says Am. "'How old air you? the dominie says, turnin' to Lize. She wriggled a minute an' says, 'Wa'al, I reckon I'm all o' thirty, she says." "All o' thirty!" exclaimed Aunt Polly. "The woman 's most 's old 's I be."
He was headed straight for the open doors, his head bent down to avoid the pelting drops, and he did not see the cars and the young ladies until he had nearly collided with Cora. Then he straightened up suddenly, and the look of astonishment on his face made Cora want to laugh, only she felt, under the circumstances, that she did not dare. "Wa'al, I'll be gum-swizzled!" exclaimed the farmer.
Harum, "I couldn't 'a' done it slicker myself, an' I don't know nobody that could." "Guess you must 'a' felt a little ticklish yourself," said Dick sympathetically, laughing as usual. "Wa'al, you better believe," declared the other. "The' was 'bout half a minute when I'd have sold out mighty cheap, an' took a promise fer the money.
'He-uh-uh-uh-huh! really, he says, 'I couldn't think of offerin' you less than two hunderd. "'All right, I says, 'I'll send up fer the hoss. One-seventy-six is my price, no more an' no less, an' I got up out o' my chair." "And what did he say then?" asked John. "Wa'al," replied Mr.
"Thar's a-plenty o' folks hyeh in the mount'ns that yo' c'n never make see how knowin' their private affairs does the gov'nment any good." "But you don't feel that way, Uncle Eli, surely?" "Wa'al, I don' know. Settin' here talkin' about it, I know it's all right, an' I'm willin' to tell all I know.
The nurse, she made a dive fer the stairs, wavin' me back with her hand, an' I wa'al I went into the settin' room, an wa'al ne' mind. "I dunno how long I set there list'nin' to 'em movin' 'round overhead, an' wonderin' what was goin' on; but fin'ly I heard a step on the stair an' I went out into the entry, an' it was Mis' Jones. 'How be they? I says. "'We don't quite know yet, she says.
"'Wa'al, all right, I says, 'do her up. An' so she wrapped the thing 'round with soft paper an' put it in a box, an' I paid for't an' moseyed along up home, feelin' that ev'ry man, woman, an' child had their eyes on my parcel, but thinkin' how tickled my wife would be."
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