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"To make you look 'fetching'?" "Naw'm. I put dat ol' red sash-bow up dar to 'tract 'tention." "To attract attention?" repeated Ruth. "Why do you want to attract attention?" "I don't wanter, Miss Ruthie." "Then why do you wear it?" "So folkses will look at my haid." Agnes and Neale were vastly amused, but Ruth pursued her inquiry.
What do folks say in the settlements?" Polly Ann turned up her nose. "They don't know nuthin' in the settlements," she replied. "I wrote to Tom and told him you was gone," said the older woman. "I knowed he'd wanter hear." And she looked meaningly at Polly Ann, who said nothing. The children had been pulling at the girl's skirts, and suddenly she made a dash at them.
"Sandy en Tenie hadn' b'en libbin' tergedder fer mo' d'n two mont's befo' Mars Marrabo's old uncle, w'at libbed down in Robeson County, sent up ter fine out ef Mars Marrabo couldn' len' 'im er hire 'im a good han' fer a mont' er so. Sandy's marster wuz one er dese yer easy-gwine folks w'at wanter please eve'ybody, en he says yas, he could len' 'im Sandy.
He raise' up on one shoulder en look' roun', w'en w'at should he see but de noo mule's head stickin' in de winder, wid his lips drawed back over his toofs, grinnin' en snappin' at Dan des' lack he wanter eat 'im up.
But, to her greater surprise, he stammered in equal frankness: "It's growed upon me for the last five years ever since I was alone with him." He stopped, cleared his throat, and then, standing up before her, said in his former voice, but with a more settled and intense deliberation: "You wanter know how long it will last, do ye?
Moody was fairly warmed, for once, out of his customary temper of mistrust and indecision. He spoke up promptly. "You kin stop here jess long's you like. We don' care where you come from, an' you need n't to go no fu'ther, less you wanter. But we ain't got no use for French names round here. Guess we 'll call him Fiddlin' Jack, hey, Sereny?
We been tryin' to git the pertic'lars out o' Pete, here, but he don't seem ter wanter talk about it," and the man guffawed heartily. "Hear ye made Sam give back the tools he borrowed of the old man?" said another man, whom Hiram knew to be Mrs. Larriper's son-in-law. "You are probably misinformed," said Hiram, quietly. "I know no reason why Mr.
Say, there was somethin' doing nearly every minute till the police broke up the game and took the players to the Number 4 Station. "What's that did I take the kiddies? Not for a minute I didn't. Would yer wanter take your little brothers or sisters "You ain't got none. Well, nobody's blamin' you, are they? I'm just supposin' you had.
But I see Cale put on his specs and read the durn thing through before he stamped it. Yes, sir. Cale's the carefulest notary public we ever had around here. "Say!" said Mr. Pollock. "You go to Cale and ask him. It don't seem to me the old man give Pepper so long a time." "For how long was the option to run, then?" queried Hiram, excitedly. "Wal, I wouldn't wanter say.
"Friends, I presume, sirs?" he asked, glancing keenly from man to man. "Reckon so," admitted Bolderwood. "Where is Colonel Allen?" "If you don't mind waitin' with us I shouldn't be s'prised if ye see him 'fore long," declared the long-legged scout. "Wanter see him pertic'lar?" "I do," the stranger admitted. "You are the advance guard of our boys, I presume?"
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