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Updated: June 12, 2025
And all the time the sun was a-blazin' and the dust was a-blowin and the clouds would roll up and then drift away and the sun would come out hotter 'n ever. Day after day, month after month, we waited eighteen, I think it was. People got so they wouldn't pray no more, and the preachers moved away. I guess we was as bad off as them pore folks in Beljum.
Here the garrulous old servant shook his head. "But ef he don't well den " "That's bad, if he doesn't, eh?" "Yassah. Ef he don' come a-blowin' an' ef he do come a-singin', den look out! I allus did notice, ef Cunnel Blount 'gins to sing 'ligious hymns, somethin's wrong, and somethin' gwine ter drap.
Four weeks since we've been on the ways and maybe a scrubbing wouldn't hurt her, but if it keeps a-blowin' who'll mind that? Not the Johnnie. Oh, Tommie, if you'd seen her comin' across the Bay of Fundy yesterday afternoon and last night. Did she come? did she come? Lord O Lord " "And so that's Withrow got his vessel tuned up like a fiddle and now he's putting extra ballast in her.
But it wuz fairly skairful to see it a-steamin' and a-blowin' right along the streets of Jonesville without the sign of a horse or ox or anything nigh it to draw it. A-puffin' out the steam, and a-tearin' right along, that awful lookin' that it skairt she that wuz Celestine Bobbet most into fits.
You wanted me to tell a story, didn't you? I was just a-blowin'." "Well, there, tell something nice, can't you, please?" "I've told all the story I'm a-goin' to," said Horace, firmly. "Now it's Susy's turn." "You talk about something else a while," replied Susy, "and let me be a-thinkin'." "I'll tell one," cried Prudy, "let me, now."
'Why, you're all a-blowin' and a-growin' this morning, Peckover, was his first observation, as he dropped heavily into a wooden arm-chair. 'I shall begin to think that colour of yours ain't natural. Dare you let me rub it with a handkerchief? 'Course I dare, replied Clem, tossing her head. 'Don't be so forward, Mr. Snowdon. 'Forward? Not I. I'm behind time if anything.
But it wuz fairly skairful to see it a-steamin' and a-blowin' right along the streets of Jonesville without the sign of a horse or ox or anything nigh it to draw it. A-puffin' out the steam, and a-tearin' right along, that awful lookin' that it skairt she that wuz Celestine Bobbet most into fits.
"Ye'r a fine chap, Tom, to give a fellow h'infumation," he said with a snigger. "I could 'a told you as much meself. Why, carn't I see with 'arf a h'eye we're steerin' to the north'ard up the coast, with the munsoon a-blowin' right in our teeth and the sun on our starb'rd 'and!" I laughed, too, at the sharp wag's rejoinder.
"It's a-blowin' too hard," squeaked the small boy, as he ranged alongside. "I'm afeared you'll be blowed out." "Nonsense!" cried Bob Croaker, grasping the rope which the boy threw to him. "Jump on board, younker; we don't want you to help us, and you're too heavy for ballast. Slip down the side, Martin, and get in while I hold on to the rope. All right? now I'll follow.
Dock Heaters has been a-blowin' hit aroun' that he has beat my time with you. I don't believe it Jane, fur after keepin' me waitin' all these years, I don't believe you'd go back on me. You know I've allus loved you, ever sence we was little children together." The girl was silent until he leaned over and said in pleading tones, "What do you say, Jane?" "I hain't fitten fur you, Bud."
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