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"Night before last on the six-fifteen, and me getting home late from the Epworth meeting fire out not a stick of kindling-wood in only two cakes in the buttery, neither of them a layer not a frying-size chicken on the place thank goodness he didn't have the appetite he used to though in another way it's just downright heartbreaking to see a person you care for not be a ready eater but I had some of the plum jell he used to like, and the good half of an apple-John which I at once het up and I sent Mehitty Lykins down for some chops "
Shorty yelled, thrusting his fingers into his ears and breathing heavily from his exertions. "Ah, you would, would you!" was his cry as he lunged forward and kicked a knife from the hand of a man who, bellying through the snow, was trying to stab the lead-dog in the throat. "This is terrible," Smoke muttered. "I'm all het up," Shorty replied, returning from the rescue of Bright. "I'm real sweaty.
You should have seen that man's face in the het o' battle, his features were as if they'd been cast in steel. 'We rather expected a letter from Bob before this. 'Well, said Jim Cornick, with a smile of toleration, 'you must make allowances.
Ben had a habit of stayin' in his room an' havin' a nigger fetch his up on a waiter, an' Het feels like it is her duty to do likewise. She sets up thar, they tell me, in easy, roustabout clothes, an' attends to the business of the day sech as readin' the mail, answerin' letters, an' listenin' to complaints from overseers an' land-renters.
The man, without noticing the slight rebuff, looked about for a seat, settled down on the top step of the porch, pulled his cap from his head, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with the back of one hand. Then he said slowly, as if to himself: "I took the wrong road and got consid'able het up." Tod watched him while he mopped his head with a red cotton handkerchief, but made no reply.
"Why did you move, then?" persisted the girl, who understood what he said just about half. "Weel, my leddy, ye see it's het, an' I'm aye amang the fish mair or less, an' I didna ken 'at I was to hae the honour o' sittin' doon aside ye; sae I thocht ye was maybe smellin' the fish. 'Deed, my leddy, we wadna need to be particlar, whiles, or it wad be the waur for 's."
If I tried to 'earn the milk, it was either owre het or owre cauld when I put in the 'earning; if I began to wash the dishes, she aye milkit the kye first, and then she wondered how some folk had sae little sense.
"An' potaters b'iled all over this good kitchen stove! I declare, this room's a real hog's nest, an' I left it as neat as wax!" Perhaps no man was ever more amazed than this invader. He stood staring at her in silence. "Can't you shet the door!" she inquired, fractiously, beginning to untie her cloud. "An' put a stick o' wood in the stove? If I don't git het through, I shall ketch my death!"
W'y, there was a feller one time it was during the army and this feller that I started in to tell you about was in the war and ha! ha! there was a big fight a-goin' on, and this feller was in the fight, and it was a big battle and bullets a-flyin' ever' which way, and bomb- shells a-bu'stin', and cannon-balls a-flyin' 'round promiskus; and this feller right in the midst of it, you know, and all excited and het up, and chargin' away; and the fust thing you know along come a cannon-ball and shot his head off ha! ha! ha!
Up for membership at The Retreat. Dines with Poultney Masters, Jr., at his club. Can't you hear him running home to wifie all het up and puffed like a toad, and telling her about it?" "Who's all this, Bunny?" inquired Banneker, who had taken in only the last few words.
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