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"I don't see why folks want to make so many pictures of men and women walkin' in and out of my cottage and sayin' such outlandish things like: 'Gal, you shall give me them papers! or, 'Meet me on yonder cliff at midnight! I give up!" "It does seem out of reason, Pete," agreed another. "But as long as they pay me for it, and don't go to bustin' up things, I'm willin'."
I s'pose he had crowns an' rings an' purple velvet coats an' brocade satin weskits, an' all manner o' things. Sometimes seems as I could see him walkin' straight in through that door there." She was running a knitting needle back and forth through her ball of yarn as she spoke, without noticing that some one had been stamping the snow from his feet on the doorstone outside.
Then she tried what she called slummin', which, as near as I can see, means walkin' in where you 'aint wanted, because people are poorer than you are, and leavin' little tracts that nobody reads, and currant jelly that nobody eats, and clothes that nobody can wear.
I wuz walkin' along with my Josiah in a quiet part of the grounds, if any of 'em can be called so, 'tennyrate there wuzn't many round when I hearn some workmen passin' along say, "There is the President." And lookin' round eagerly and anxiously I see a good-lookin' man with eye glasses settin' on a bench readin' a paper.
My heart swelled almost to bustin' and I sez almost unbeknown to myself, to Robert Strong who wuz walkin' by my side: "We read about the New Jerusalem comin' down to earth, and if I didn't know, Robert Strong, that you had founded this city yourself, I should think that this wuz it."
And though I like you, Matt, love you better than ever, I shall nevertheless be very angry if you mention it again. You have no right. It is something that concerns me alone. And it is wrong of you " "To prevint ye walkin' blind into danger?" "If you wish to put it that way, yes." He growled deep down in his throat. "What is it you are saying?" she asked.
The steps grew louder and then round the sheltering bush came the thick-set form of Gautier. He was accompanied by an evil-looking dog which growled sulkily as it espied the white man. "Ugh! Hot walkin'," said the newcomer, by way of greeting. "Not so hot as it'll be to-night," said the white man, quietly. "Sit down."
Alpheus Bassett, down to the Point a great, strong, fleshy man, weighs close to two hundred and fifty and never sick a day in his life he was up in the second story of his buildin' walkin' around spry as anybody all alone, which he shouldn't have been at his age and he stepped on a fish and away he went. And the next thing we hear he's in bed with his collar-bone.
"I never was any hand to put on such things. I'd be a purty sight, now, wouldn't I walkin' in town with a flower-garden pinned to me?" She submitted to his refusal, deftly twining the stem of the flower into the cheap lace about her neck. "I've got a favor to ask of you, Alfred," she said, sweetly, "and I don't want you to refuse it, either. This time I know what I want, and I must have it."
Fer four nights now they'd seen him, wrapped in a blue robe, waitin' an' a-huntin' behind tombstones an' walkin' round an' round the graveyard lie a six days' race fer the belt at Madison Square. John had jus' seen him on the wall, an' that was why he come chargin' down the road like forty cats. "'Will Mr. Ming's sperrit walk till he gits that button back? Buck asts. John says: 'Sure.
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