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He spoke oddly about his father, and made a very strange proposal to me that I should give him my written promise for twenty thousand pounds, and he would "take me cleverly out o' Bartram-Haugh and put me wi' my cousin Knollys!" I refused indignantly, but he caught me by the wrist. "Don't ye be a-flyin' out," he said peremptorily. "Take it or leave it on or off!
When my hoss-ah got just opposite, they got up and gave some loud grunts whoo! whoo! whoo! and that scart my hoss-ah, and he threw me in the dirt and ran away-ah. I ris my eyes to look at my hoss-ah, and there he was a-gallopin' down the road with his mane and tail a-flyin', and he looked back at me and seemed to be sayin', 'Good-by, Brother Crawford-ah; good-by, Brother Crawford-ah."
"All right, Bill," exclaimed an old fisherman, who had been for some time past sweeping the horizon with his glass, "the flag's a-flyin'." "What does that mean?" asked a smart young lady, who had braved the blast and run the risk of a salt-wash from the sprays at the pier-end in her eager desire to see the boat arrive.
"Then you don't live here?" said the visitor disappointedly. "No." "I reckon that's the reason why we didn't see no flag a-flyin' when we was a-huntin' this place yesterday. We were directed here, but I says to Malcolm, says I, 'No; it ain't here, or you'd see the Stars and Stripes afore you'd see anythin' else. But I reckon you float it over your house, eh?"
"If Ruth says she kin help ye, she kin. You oughter know that by this time." "Help me row that punt across the river?" snarled the old man, wrathfully. "What nonsense!" "I dunno," said the old woman, slowly. "I see Tim's flag a-flyin'. I guess he wants his flour bad." "And I can pull an oar as good as you can, Uncle Jabez," added Ruth. "Oh, all right! Come on, then.
She was struggling with the strings of her bonnet before the looking-glass which adorned Blossy's parlor-kitchen. She turned to him with a little cry, and he saw that her face had changed marvelously grown young, grown glad, grown soft and fresh with a new excited spirit of jubilant thanksgiving. "Oh, Father! Weren't yew s'prised tew git the telephone? I knowed yew'd come a-flyin' back."
'Wot, I s'pose you happened to drive up agin a post or two? said Sam. 'I'm afeerd, replied Mr. Weller, in a rapture of winks 'I'm afeerd I took vun or two on 'em, Sammy; he wos a-flyin' out o' the arm-cheer all the way.
I hardly know which I like best the roarin' beasts, a-prancin' about in their cages, with the smell of blood an' hay, an' the towerin' elephants; or the horses, an' the music, an' the gauzy figgers at the circus, an' the splendid knights in armor an' flashin' pennants, all on fiery steeds, a-plungin' ag'in the sides of the ring, with their flags a-flyin' in the grand entry, says I, real excited with what I remembered about these shows.
Him and t'other 'Change officers is over ter the plantation beyont Miss Grover's. Foller the bridle-path through the timber, and keep your rag a-flyin', fur our boys is thicker 'n huckelberries in them woods, and they mought pop ye, ef they didn't seed it." Thanking him, we turned our horses into the "timber," and, galloping rapidly on, soon came in sight of the deserted plantation.
When I thought that fifty years ago the grassy prairie lay stretched out in green repose where now wuz the hard pavements worn with the world's commerce; when I thought that little prairie-dogs, and mush-rats, and squirells wuz a-runnin' along ondisturbed where now stood high blocks full of a busy city's enterprise; when I thought that little pretty, timid birds wuz a-flyin' about where now wuz steeples and high chimblys why, when I thought of all this in common readin', then the Skripter come in, and I sez to myself in deep, solemn axents
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