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He had caught that note and it piqued his curiosity, so with mountain secretiveness he became cryptic in his response. "Wa'al, mebby we hain't tellin' all we knows jest yit. Mebby we're kinderly bidin' our time for a leetle spell." It was not a comprehensive announcement.
He wa'n't exac'ly smilin', but the' was a look in his eyes that was the next thing to it." "Lordy me!" sighed Mrs. Cullom, as if to herself. "How well I can remember that look; jest as if he was laughin' at ye, an' wa'n't laughin' at ye, an' his arm around your neck!" David nodded in reminiscent sympathy, and rubbed his bald poll with the back of his hand. "Wa'al," interjected the widow.
"'Wa'al, he said, 'puttin' it that way, I s'pose I'd 'a' said one-seventy. "'Yes, I says, 'an' then agin, if I'd said that he wa'n't wuth that money to me, not bein' jest what I wanted an' so he ain't but that I'd give one-forty, cash, what do you s'pose you'd 'a' said?
Wa'al, I think it must 'a' ben a kind of disease with him. He really didn't mean no harm, mebbe, but he couldn't no more help lettin' out anythin' he knowed, or thought he knowed, than a settin' hen c'n help settin'. He kep' me on tenter-hooks the hull endurin' time." "I should say he was honest enough, was he not?" said John.
'But, he says, 'won't the deakin suspicion that it comes from you? 'Wa'al, I says, 'my portrit ain't on none o' the bills, an' I reckon you won't tell him so, out an' out, an' off he went. Yistidy he come in, an' I says, 'Wa'al, done anythin'? 'The hoss is in your barn, he says. 'Good fer you! I says. 'Did you make anythin'? 'I'm satisfied, he says.
This astonishing statement elicited a laugh even from Aunt Polly, but presently she said: "Wa'al, I'm glad you found one man that would stan' you off on Sunday." "Yes'm," said her brother, "'Lizer 's jest your kind. I knew 't he'd hurt his foot, an' prob'ly couldn't go to meetin', an' sure enough, he was settin' on the stoop, an' I drove in an' pulled up in the lane alongside.
"Wa'al," he went on, "we passed the time o' day, an' talked a spell about the weather an' all that, an' finely I straightened up the lines as if I was goin' on, an' then I says: 'Oh, by the way, I says, 'I jest thought on't.
"Wa'al, sir," declared David with the utmost gravity, "fer the next five years I never missed attendin' church on Thanksgivin' day but four times; but after that," he added, "I had to beg off. It was too much of a strain," he declared with a chuckle, "an' it took more time 'n Polly c'd really afford to git me ready."
Wa'al, putty soon the band struck up some kind of a dancin' tune, an' the curt'in went up, an' a girl come prancin' down to the footlights an' begun singin' an' dancin', an', scat my ! to all human appearances you c'd 'a' covered ev'ry dum thing she had on with a postage stamp." John stole a glance at Mrs. Cullom. She was staring at the speaker with wide-open eyes of horror and amazement.
You see, hosses gits used to places an' ways to a certain extent, an' when they're changed, why they're apt to act diff'rent. Hosses don't know but dreadful little, really. Talk about hoss sense wa'al, the' ain't no such thing."
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