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"That so? I thought they lied dyin'." "Oh, be still! But what did Mr. Bangs pick out THAT name for of all names? Can you tell me that?" Zacheus could not, of course, nor did he attempt it. Instead, he rose and gazed sadly at his companion. "He said it for a joke, Buttercups," he observed. "Joke. YOU know, a joke.
"Talkin' about what I'm tryin' to tell you," said Zacheus, who seemed, for him, a good deal disturbed. "All able believers, fo'mast hands, and roustabouts and all full-rated ghosts, spooks, sperits and Chinee controls are ordered to get together in the parlor next Saturday night and turn loose and raise-whatever 'tis they raise. Signed, Marietta Hoag, Admiral, and Cap'n Jethro Hallett, Skipper.
"I knew you wouldn't need her yet to help with the supper and the longer she stays away the more talk there will be for the rest of us. She is to eat in the kitchen, Lulie, remember that. I WON'T have her chatterin' all through our meal." "She and Zacheus are to eat together," replied Lulie. "It is all settled. Now if Nelson will only come.
You're always tellin' me about how 'Zacheus he, climbed up a tree Now if your name had to rhyme 'twould have to be er er well, nothing'," triumphantly; "'cause nothin' COULD rhyme with Zacheus." Mr. Bloomer, solemn as ever, shook his head. "Yes, it could," he declared. "What's the name of that plant Lulie's got in the settin' room window over home? The one with the prickers on it.
"I bet you that lightship pitched up and down somethin' terrible, didn't it, Zach?" she asked. Zacheus looked at her solemnly. "Pitched?" he repeated, after a moment's contemplation. "No, no, she didn't pitch none." "Didn't? Didn't pitch up and down in such a gale's that? And with waves a hundred foot high? What kind of talk's that, Zach Bloomer!
The wind blowed so strong it lifted the lightship right out of the water up to the ends of them chains and kept her there. Course there was a dreadful sea runnin' underneath us, but we never felt it a mite; that gale was holdin' us up twenty foot clear of it!" "Zacheus Bloomer, do you mean to say " "Um-hm. Twenty foot in the air we was all that night and part of next day.
"Not a reg'lar gale, 'tain't," he said. "Alongside of some gales I've seen this one ain't nothin' but a tops'l breeze. Do you remember the storm the night the Portland was lost, Martha?" Miss Phipps, who had come in from the kitchen with a can of coffee in her hand, shuddered. "Indeed I do, Zacheus," she said; "don't remind me of it." "Why, dear me, was it worse than this one?" asked Galusha.
There was a slight hubbub in the circle, owing to the fact that two of its members simultaneously recognized and laid claim to the same spirit, each declaring him to be or have been an entirely different person when living. During this little controversy Zacheus whispered in his neighbor's ear. "Say, Mr. Bangs," he whispered, "this is gettin' kind of tiresome, ain't it?
The phlegmatic Zacheus, whose left leg had been crossed above his right, now reversed the crossing. "A-ll right er Pansy Blossom," he drawled. "What is it you're trying to tell us you know? Heave it overboard." "Hey?... Oh, I mean I've remembered what 'twas I wanted to ask you, Mr. Bangs. Me and Zach was talkin' about Miss Martha.
Of that citee was Zacheus the dwerf, that clomb up in to the Sycomour Tre, for to see oure Lord; be cause he was so litille, he myghte not seen Him for the peple.
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