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Jest tell him what yuh want and he'll do it, providin' yuh don't hang around the camp too long. Gabby does hate company worse'n a dose of poison." Tenny lost no time in carrying out his plans.
"Why, no!" said the man, wonderingly, "I suppose not; but I thought you boys would rather spend your money at the circus than to spend it in almost any other way." "Oh! I'd like to go well enough. I al'ays did like a circus, an' I wanted to go to this one, 'cause it's a big one; but they's sumpthin' else I want worse'n that, an' I'm a-tryin' to save up a little money for it."
"Wal, o' course I had to keep in line, so I put up the prices o' my work a little to be in fashion. Everybody kicked good an' plenty, an' nobody worse'n Sam an' Bill an' Ephraim, but I told 'em how I'd read that there was so much gold in the world it kind o' set me hankerin'.
I ain't got a cent to go home; an' what's worse'n all, I got a letter this mornin' tellin' me my idiot boy's down sick an' cryin' for me. I'm the only one can do anything for him. He can't understand nobody else." Her voice broke and she bit her lips to keep back the tears. "I've begged all day. Everybody laughs at me. I heard you preach one Sunday. I knowed you wouldn't laugh at me.
In fact, as his hat flew off, he made use of words that under less extreme circumstances would have caused both boys to feel a much profounder interest than they did in great-uncle Slocum. "I'll GET you!" Sam babbled. "Don't you ever dare to speak to me again, Penrod Schofield, long as you live, or I'll whip you worse'n I have this time!" Penrod squawked.
But he wasn't any worse'n I'd be if I was to " "I'm sorry you care so little for me," intervened Dorcas, her voice very sweet and very cold, and her slender nose whitening a little at the corners of the nostrils. "Of course if you prefer a miserable dog to me, there's nothing more to be said. "No!" almost yelled the miserable man. "You've got me all wrong, dearie. Honest, you have.
Yet he had held to honesty and hard work, measuring a man by his ability to swing an axe or a shovel, and, despite his impecuniosity, regarding theft as the one crime deserving capital punishment. "Oh, there's lots of countries worse'n this," he declared.
They gaped at Hazel, sullen and critical. An irrepressible question broke from Hazel. 'What for did you have 'em? Sally stared. 'What for? she repeated. 'Surely to goodness, girl, you're not as innicent-like as that? 'I ain't ever going to have any, Hazel went on with great firmness, as she eyed the children. 'God above! muttered Sally. 'He's fooled her worse'n me!
"Well, Keith Burton, I should like to know where you've been," cried the irate voice of Susan Betts from the doorway. "Oh, just walking. Why?" "Because I've been huntin' and huntin' for you. But, oh, dear me, You're worse'n a flea, So what's the use of talkin'? You always say, As you did to-day, I've just been out a-walkin'!" "But what did you want me for?" "I didn't want you. Your pa wanted you.
He's bad medicine, chief!" "Two to one. That'd be worse'n murder, Lew. Neither you nor me could ever hold up a head around these parts again if the two of us jumped one gent." "I know it," said Hervey solemnly. "But it's better to be shamed than to be dead. That's the way I figure. And I ain't so sure that both of us together could win out."
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