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Sure enough, Josiah Allen had killed a hen, and dressed it ready for me to brile, but it wuz young and tender, and I knew it wouldn't take long, so I didn't care. Good land! I love to humor him, and he knows it. Casper Keeler come in jest as I wuz a-gettin' supper and I thought like as not he would stay to supper; I laid out to ask him. But I didn't take no more pains on his account.
He was red in the face, and appeared bashful and ill at ease in the costume which they saw was a new one. "To think of his a-gettin' hisself up like that!" Emily said with an amused scorn of the poor man as the cab containing the three drove off. "There's no doubt what he've set his mind on, 'm. But Miss Bessie ain't for such as him. She'll look higher." When Mr.
"Ruey, do hush up," said Miss Roxy, frowning sternly down from under the shadow of a preternatural black straw bonnet, trimmed with huge bows of black ribbon, which head-piece sat above her curls like a helmet. "Don't be a-gettin' sentimental, Ruey, whatever else you get and talkin' like Miss Emily Sewell about match-makin'; I can't stand it; it rises on my stomach, such talk does.
"Wal," grinned Ham, "jest tell him that he's 'bout th' most abused man in all Californy, an', I reckon, he'll open his heart tew you. He's pow'ful sore over everybudy else but he a-gettin' th' gold, an' he th' discoverer." "Maybe the hot coffee will do as well," laughed Bud, as he hurried back to his guest.
A red-faced Yorkshireman who knows all about fish-curing, said: "When first I came here I'm blest if the men wasn't transparent. You could see through 'em like lookin' through the rungs of a ladder. Now the beggars are growin' double chins. Now they're a-gettin' cheeky. They're like a hoss as has had a feed of corn. They was meek an' mild enough when I come over.
With assumed carelessness, McKee answered: "I'm a-gettin'. Well, gents, I hopes you all'll enjoy this yere pink tea. Say, Bud, put a piece of weddin'-cake in your pocket for me. I wants to dream on it." "Who brought him here?" asked Jack, facing his guests. "I did," answered Bud defiantly. "You might have known better," was Jack's only comment. "I'm not a-sayin' who's to come and go.
"Well, if you must 'ave it," said Beale, "we're a-gettin' very near my ole dad's place, and I can't make me mind up." "I thought we was settled we'd go to see 'im." "I dunno. If 'e's under the daisies I shan't like it I tell you straight I shan't like it. But we're a long-lived stock p'raps 'e's all right. I dunno." "Shall I go up by myself to where he lives and see if he's all right?"
But if you ask me my honest opinion, I'd say this rotten old pleasure hull is a-gettin' ready to open up and spread out like a like a balloon with the epizoötic." "All right, when she begins, come on up with your men without asking leave. Report every half-hour. I'll be on the bridge, of course.
"Float where to?" "'Ere, there, an' everywhere, Joe, I can feel 'em! They're always a-gettin' theirselves all mixed up any'ow. Oh, it's an 'orrible complaint to 'ave kidneys like mine as gets theirselves lost." "Wish they'd lose you along with 'em!" growled Joe, shaking the dust from his handkerchief.
"'Ow be they a-gettin' on in Durbysher?" lately enquired a man at Coln-St-Aldwyns. "Bedad!" answered his friend, "there won't be many left in Durbysher if they goes on a-killin' un much longer." Another story lately told me in the same village was as follows: An old lady went to the stores to buy candles, and was astonished to find that owing to the Spanish-American war "candles was riz."
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