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Elmer inquired. "Well, it daon't stand tuh reason he did," replied the other, gravely; "even if he had holt o' one at the time, he never'd a held on tuh hit arter that rope had slung him head down'ards. Guess I ort tuh know. If any o' yuh wants tuh feel what it's like, I'll rig the trap up agin in the mawnin' for yuh.
He dropped his gun and put down the shore like a wild man, with Lonesome after him. I tried to foller, but my rheumatiz was too big a handicap; all I could do was yell. You never'd have picked out Todd for a sprinter not to look at him, you wouldn't but if he didn't beat the record for his class just then I'll eat my sou'wester.
"I wish I never'd said one word!" Dilly broke the spell as lightly as she had woven it. A smile passed over her face, like a charm, dispelling all its prophetic fervor. "There! there!" she said, dropping the girl's hand. "I thought I'd scare ye! What's the use o' bein' a witch, if ye can't upset folks?
She seed some mighty suspicious things about him from the word go. She'd allers had her doubts whether he was jist the thing, and ef her ole man had axed her, liker-n not he never'd a been hired. She'd seed things with her own livin' eyes that beat all she ever seed in all her born days. And Pete Jones said he'd allers knowed ther warn't no good in sech a feller.
"How can a girl tell?" says she. "Men talk like this to girls " "Have they talked to you? Who was it?" "My social opportunities," says she slow and bitter-like, "seem to be confined to our neighbors' gardener." "Don't!" says he. "Oh, don't! I don't want to see you hurt, even by your own tongue." I never'd heard any man hand out any talk of this sort to any girl before.
Why, bless you, you never'd think anything ailed him a good deal of the time, if you saw him before noon, though sometimes he would be freaky, and hide himself in the barn, or go over in the woods, but we always kept an eye on him. But this Sunday there was going to be a great occasion.
"Because," said Tira, bound to keep quietly on in this new way of reason with him, "I left him. An' I left him 'fore he got tired o' me. He never'd overlook that." "You left him, did ye?" he repeated. "Then that proves you was with him, or ye couldn't ha' left him." "Why, Isr'el," said she, her clear gaze on his turbid answering one, "I told you. I told you long 'fore you married me.
The deacon felt he had been bidden to take himself away, yet with nothing learned; and as he slowly adjusted his plush cap and pulled its ear-tabs down, he fixed a facetious glance upon the housekeeper, making one more effort toward enlightenment, saying: "I admit Marsden an honest village, less I never'd a-sold the farm an' moved in.
I go shufflin' round the house same's if 'twas a bo't, and I always used to be stubbin' up the corners o' the hooked kind. Her an' me was always havin' our jokes together same's a boy an' girl. Outsiders never'd know nothin' about it to see us.
"You are beauty, Tira. You are the cup. They think if they could drink of you they would never thirst again." "An' now," said Tira, "s'pose a man like like him s'pose it looked to him some minute he never'd so much as expected s'pose it looked to him as if he'd be made if he owned me body an' soul. Well! That's easy, you say. If I love him, what's my body an' what's my soul?
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