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As I went toward the engine, I met the watchman: "'Phy don't that fireman o' yourn sleep in the house or on the caboose floor such a night as this? He'll freeze up there in that cab wid no blankets at all; but when I tould him that, he politely informed meself that he'd knowed men to git rich mindin' their own biz. He's a sassy slip of a Yankee.
Every mark had been carefully scraped off the barrel, but on the top head were the words, printed with a lead pencil, 'This is yourn and I am sorry. "Fourteen years before, the Wilburs had lost a large hog very mysteriously. At that time domestic animals were allowed to run about much more freely than at present, and they often strayed along the highway.
For, bein' a woman, I could have riz up, an', standin' so, I could have cried: "Come, Bill! come, let me hold you in these arms; come, let us weep together, an' let this broken heart uv mine speak through these tremblin' lips to that broken heart uv yourn, Bill, tellin' ye how much I love ye an' sympathize with ye!" But no! I wuz not a woman!
We take everything that comes in pies and pickles and bedquilts and pumpkins and everything; putty triflin' stuff, some of it, but they take it. This is different, I s'pose?" "A little. Yes. They only take the best or what they call the best." The tone was bitter. Uncle William looked at him mildly. "Then they took yourn every one on 'em. They was as good picters as I ever see."
"Now you dust around for fifteen dollars even an' stop yore contempt of court an' threats or I'll drill you just for luck!" rejoined Mr. Townsend, angrily. "If you keep on working yore mouth like that there won't be nothing coming to you when I sell that cayuse of yourn. Turn around an' strike out or I'll put you with yore ancestors!"
"I sure found that out already, Mr. Postmaster. Met every last one of 'em this mo'nin', I'll bet. Never did see so many humans millin' around. I'll say they're thick as cattle at a round-up." "Then you'll understand that when one man gets lost it isn't always possible to find him." "Why not? We got some steers down in my country about as many as you got men in this here town of yourn.
Andrew gave a wave of his hand that condensed scorn. "What'd you get out o' him, a-gabblin' and sailin' all summer?" "I dunno, Andy, as I could jest put into words," said William, thoughtfully, "what I did get out o' him." "Ump! I guess you couldn't nor anybody else. When he sends you anything for that boat o' yourn, you jest let me know it, will you?"
He had wit to guess Billy's errand, however, for he grinned, and leaning against the hedge waved his stick in the air above his head. "Aw, Jimmery! if it ban't Blee; an' prinked out for a weddin', tu, by the looks of it!" "Not yourn, anyway," snapped back the suitor. "Well, us caan't say 'zactly world 's full o' novelties."
And, when Black George had betaken himself back to his smithy, she also turned, and, crossing swiftly to the inn, vanished through its open doorway. "She 've a fine sperrit, 'ave that darter o' yourn, Simon, a fine sperrit. Oh! a fine sperrit as ever was!" chuckled the Ancient.
Blennerhassett, with gracious solicitude, insisted upon wrapping a small linen handkerchief about the wounded member. The gawky hero looked very sheepish while she tied the soft bandage fast. "Is this yourn?" he asked. "It was mine," she answered, smiling amusedly, "but it now belongs to the knight who came to fight my battle when I was in great distress." "By gum, I'm obliged to you."
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