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Howiver, I'd no call to hurry misen, so when I got a bit tired I lay on my back, an' floated an' looked up at t' gulls aboon my head. But then I fan' out 'twere no use floatin'; t' tide were driftin' me out to sea. So I got agate o' swimmin' an' kept at it for wellnigh ten minutes.
"I had a good time floatin' down her on the Missip'. Now I reckon Jim here will hev to row me or paddle me all the way back to Kaintuck." "Ef you wait fur me to row or paddle you, you won't ever travel more'n six inches," said Long Jim. "Jest like you, Jim; you ain't got no gratitood at all fur me gittin' you away from New Orlee-yuns."
"Now Tom Redmond, he took to this here Pinto horse from havin' seen him jump the corral fence several times, and start floatin' off across the country for a eight or ten mile sasshay without no special encouragement. He hired three Castilian busters to operate on Pinto, and he got so he could be rode occasional, but every one allowed they never did see any horse just like him.
That might begin to interest me, but a hundred quid would interest me more. Why, a hundred quid all in beer 'd come pretty close to floatin' this old hooker. But who in Sam Hill'd offer a hundred quid? I'd like to clap eyes on him once, that's all, just once. D'ye want to know what for? All right. I'll whisper it. So as I could tell him to go to hell.
He also looked at the water and sighed sentimentally. "'Floatin' buoys with bills onto 'em is a idea of mine, he observed. 'That damn ocean is monotonous, ain't it? "I don't know what I might have done to Frisby the rifle was so convenient if his mean yellow dog had not waddled up at this juncture. "'Hi, Davy, sic 'em! said Frisby, expectorating upon a clam-shell and hurling it seaward.
"The King's drum would be floatin' the likes of him," said the irrepressible Terence, "and the b'ys would be that lonesome." The Colonel walked away without a word. In an hour's time he came back to find me cleaning his accoutrements by the fire. For a while he did not speak, but busied himself with his papers, I having lighted the candles for him.
Wan day I felt a sort o' light-hiddedness as if I was a kind o' livin' balloon and was floatin' away, whin the doctor came an' looked at me. "`He's gone, says he. "`That's a lie! says I, with more truth than purliteness, maybe. "An' would ye belave it? I began to mind from that hour! It was the doctor saved me widout intindin' to good luck to him!
And soon, from the tangled yet harmonious mazes of the dance, came forth a sylph-like form, her scarf floating behind her, as if she were fanning the air with gauze-like wings. Noiseless as a feather or a snow-flake falls, did her feet touch the earth. She seemed to floatin the air, and the floor to bend and wave under her, as a branch, when a bird alights upon it, and takes wing again.
Why, she brought the school-house down, and got the audience all wrought up with pity, and sympathy. And then she went on and compared that lonesome voyager to two blissful wedded ones. A pair of white swans floatin' down the waveless calm, bathed in silvery light, floatin' down a shinin' stream that wuz never broken by rough waves, bathed in a sunshine that wuz never darkened by a cloud.
"Won't it, Emarine? Never cry over spilt milk, Mrs. Endey; it makes a body get wrinkles too fast. O' course Orville's mother's comin' to take dinner with you, Emarine." "Dear me!" exclaimed Emarine, in a sudden flutter. "I don't see why them cranberries don't come! I told Orville to hurry 'em up. I'd best make the floatin' island while I wait."
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