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She shook her sides so heartily at this, that Fly laughed aloud. "So you don't approve of husbands, Granny?" "No more I don't, mum; they're troublesome craychers, so fur as I've seen." "But don't you get down-hearted, living all alone?" "O, no, mum; I do suppose I'm the happiest woman in the city o' New Yorruk. When I goes to bed, I just gives up all my thrubbles to the Lord, and goes to sleep."
Thomas Grogan living?" asked Babcock cautiously, and with a certain tone of respect, hoping to get closer to the facts, and yet not to seem intrusive. "Oh, yis, sor: an' moight be dead fer all the good he does. He's in New Yorruk some'er's, on a farm" lowering his voice to a whisper and looking anxiously toward Jennie "belongin' to the State, I think, sor.
The voice seemed to come from his stomach, it was so hollow. "Did you see her, Mr. McGaw?" asked the Scotchman in a positive tone. "How c'u'd I be a-seein' her whin I been in New Yorruk 'mos' all day? D' ye think I'm runnin' roun' to ivery stable in the place? I wuz a-comin' 'cross lots whin I heared it. They says the horse had blin' staggers."
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