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The dukkeripen allus comes true, unless it's one as says a Gorgio shall come to the Kaulo Camloes an' break Sinfi Lovell's heart. Before that dukkeripen shall come true Sinfi Lovell 'ud cut her heart out. Yes, my fine Gorgio, she'd cut it out she'd cut it out and fling it in that 'ere llyn. She did cut it out when she took the cuss on herself. She's a-cuttin' it out now.
Why, when I popped into that thar room, and saw that lady all gold, furbelows, and spangles at twelve o'clock at night, sittin' in that cheer and you a-cuttin' her h'r and swabbin' her head o' blood, and kinder prospectin' for 'indications, so to speak, and doin' it so kam and indifferent like, I sez to myself, 'Rube, Rube, sez I, 'this yer's life! city life!
She flashed her great eyes at him with a pretended stare of surprise. "My no!" she exclaimed. "We-uns hev hed the comet ter keep us comp'ny we ain't missed nobody!" He laughed a little, as at a repartee, and then went on: "Waal, the comic war a-cuttin' a pretty showy figger down yander at Colbury. 'Ston-ishin' how much store folks do 'pear ter set on it!
Her cousin Dave had gone off to school that year, had come back a month before, and been shot through the shoulder. He was in Lonesome Cove now. This fact was mentioned in the same matter-of-fact way as the other happenings. Hale had been raising Cain in Lonesome Cove "A-cuttin' things down an' tearin' 'em up an' playin' hell ginerally."
"No, sir, that it wasn't. I was a-cuttin' the lawn till nigh bed-time, an' it wasn't there then." Grant was himself again. He stooped and grabbed the rope. "Suppose we solve the mystery," he said. "No need to dirty your hands, sir," put in Bates. "Let I haul 'un in." In a few seconds the oaken tint in his face grew many shades lighter. "Good Gawd!" he wheezed.
As he cleared he realized that somebody was standing over him, pouring water on his head. He struggled to get from under the drowning stream. A man laughed, shook him, cursed him vilely close to his ear. "Wake up, little feller, somebody's a-cuttin' your fence!" said another, taking hold of him from the other side.
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