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Yeh've edder got teh go teh hell or go teh work!" Whereupon she went to work, having the feminine aversion of going to hell. By a chance, she got a position in an establishment where they made collars and cuffs. She received a stool and a machine in a room where sat twenty girls of various shades of yellow discontent.
"'Mind, I said, as I goes off to th' galley, money in my hand; 'don't yeh let th' officers see yeh drinkin' it or they'll think yeh've been broachin' cargo, an' that's little short o' mutiny. "'Bring up that beer, growls the Britisher, almost foamin' at th' mouth.
Thorpe stood waiting near the door, and held out his hand with a dramatically significant gesture when the little Scotchman entered. "Put her there!" he exclaimed heartily, with an exuberant reversion to the slang of remote transatlantic bonhomie. "Yeh've done it, then!" said Semple, his sharp face softening with pleasure at the news. "Yeh've pulled it off at twenty-three!"
The lawyer hurried after him, and several woodsmen followed more leisurely. "Not another chip from those trees! Not another chip!" bawled the colonel. The men stopped chopping and looked at each other doubtfully. "We've been told to go ahead here," said the "boss." "I don't care what yeh've been told. You all know me, don't you?" Ward slapped his breast. "You know me?
She stammered. "I've seen it in the movies, but I didn't know it was actually done in real life." "Yes, mom, it is. It's owin' to the horse yeh've got, an' yer cinch. Yeh'll see a heap better'n that this afternoon right on this here flat. An' would yeh be layin' over fer the dance tonight, mom?" The abrupt question was even more disconcerting than the compelling directness of his gaze.
Say, I taut I'd drop dead. But deh boss, he comes in after an' he says, 'Pete, yehs done jes' right! Yeh've gota keep order an' it's all right. See? 'It's all right, he says. Dat's what he said." The two held a technical discussion. "Dat bloke was a dandy," said Pete, in conclusion, "but he hadn' oughta made no trouble.
"Hackett," said he, "yeh have worked for me a good many years." "Yes, colonel." "I've let yeh have money on a mortgage for one or two little favors yeh've done me." "Yes." Hackett began to grow pale. "Now I'll lift that whole mortgage for another favor an' don't get scared. I sha'n't ask yeh to do any more'n I propose to do myself." Ward had noted the look of alarm on the man's face.
The mother in the corner upreared her head and shook her tangled locks. "Teh hell wid him and you," she said, glowering at her daughter in the gloom. Her eyes seemed to burn balefully. "Yeh've gone teh deh devil, Mag Johnson, yehs knows yehs have gone teh deh devil. Yer a disgrace teh yer people, damn yeh. An' now, git out an' go ahn wid dat doe-faced jude of yours.
"Yeh've been grazed by a ball. It's raised a queer lump jest as if some feller had lammed yeh on th' head with a club. It stopped a-bleedin' long time ago. Th' most about it is that in th' mornin' yeh'll fell that a number ten hat wouldn't fit yeh. An' your head'll be all het up an' feel as dry as burnt pork. An' yeh may git a lot 'a other sicknesses, too, by mornin'. Yeh can't never tell.
I s'pose whar yeh come from they lay biscuits 'n' pork chops." "No. Door knobs, sometimes," said Mr. Merrick, "but seldom pork chops. Let's have eggs, and perhaps a little fried pork to go with them. Any milk?" "Canned er fresh?" "Fresh preferred." The landlord looked at him steadily. "Yeh've come a long-way, stranger," he said, "an' yeh must 'a' spent a lot of money, here 'n' there.
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