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No feller don't take no account o' her bein' a pot-wallopin', hash-slingin' mutton rustler. It sure ain't no worse than ladlin' swill to prize hogs. It's jest in the way o' business. 'Sides, she don't need to care what no fellers thinks. She ain't stuck on men-folk wuth a cent." "That I sure ain't," asserted a smothered voice from the bosom of his dirty shirt. "That you ain't," he reassured her.
"Don't let him look at me." Tom gave a start and turned round, and Mr. Stamps gave a start also, at once mildly recovering himself. "Leave her alone," said Tom, "what are you lookin' at her for?" Mr. Stamps smiled. "Thar's no law agin it, Tom," he replied. "An' she's wuth a lookin' at. She's that kind, an' it'll grow on her.
"I am older now," she explained in superior, lofty tones, "and of course I hev to think more about my looks than I used ter." He gazed at her with such ardent admiration that she was seized with an impulse to don her white dress and impress his young fancy still further. "He ain't wuth it, though," her sober second thought decided. "What does yer think I come fer, Amarilly?" "I dunno, 'less Mr.
You ain't asked to talk more'n you've a mind to aboard the We're Here. Keep your eyes open, an' help Dan to do ez he's bid, an' sechlike, an' I'll give you you ain't wuth it, but I'll give ten an' a ha'af a month; say thirty-five at the end o' the trip. A little work will ease up your head, and you kin tell us all abaout your dad an' your ma an' your money afterwards."
"Mebbe not; mebbe not. But money's good wherever you find it, and that critter is wuth two or three thousand dollars. By the e-tar-nal snakes!" he added, using his favorite expletive, "I'd love to stick an iron in that carcass." I knew that Adoniram Tugg had been almost everything in the line of sea-going and was not surprised to find that he had driven the iron into many a whale.
"That ain't nuther here nor there," he said, turning toward Abner and emphasizing his words with the empty mug. "What I asses yew is, wan't them bills good fer suthin wen they wuz fuss printed?" "They wuz wuth suthin fer a wile," assented Abner. "Ezackly," said the other, "that's the nater o' bills.
"This red-and-black silk handkerchief, ma'am," the peddler was crying, holding up a gay square of silk tartan, "is one fifty, and dirt cheap at that. Seein' it's you, ma'am, however, I'll take a dollar for it. Wuth two it is, by ginger! Sold three dozens on 'em down the village, and got two dollars apiece for 'em, every one." "I'll take it at a dollar," said Mrs. Oleander.
You look a leetle slim, but you'll look peart enough when we git you down to Charlton, and you see some of your ground wuth fifteen dollar a front foot! You didn' think I'd ever a gin up po'try long enough to sell lots.
In the book-trade I'll soon be wuth ten, an moor! And, springing up, he began to dance a sort of cut and shuffle before her out of sheer spirits. Louie surveyed him with a flushed and sparkling face. The nimbleness of David's wits had never come home to her till now. 'What ull I earn when I coom? she demanded abruptly.
"It's wuth so much, pretty gal, dat I don't want to be a-losin' of it, mind, I tell you, 'sept to my wife when she'll hab me."
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