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An' he kep' at it all along till sunset, an' when we come down into th' cabin to get supper he still was starin'; and after supper when we mought 'a' been jest like two brothers a-gettin' drunk together on gin-an'-water he stared wust of all." "Nobody could 'a' stood it no longer and up I gets an' goes fur him, keepin' my promise fair an' square.
Dat yaller gal sho' was in a fix. She don' know w'ich way to tu'n. "Das dinner was a-gettin' nearer an' nearer to de en'. Mars' Colby do lak' he say den. He come out an' mak' Sally Alley show de one-laiged geese. "'I has a po'erful min', dat Sally gal say, 'ter go down dar an' chop er laig off'n ebery goose in de yard. "But she didn't hab no min' to do dat," pursued Uncle Rufus. "Naw'm.
Before he could arrive at a decision his meditations were interrupted by the entrance of a stout, sandy-haired lady from the back parlour, who, having conquered his scruples against matrimony some thirty years before, had kept a particularly wide-awake eye upon him ever since. "Your tea's a-gettin' cold," she remarked, severely. Her husband received the news with calmness.
"There, I knew the poor old chap would get into some kind of trouble. Didn't I say it all along? Here's his head all cut and full of broken glass. 'E's been a-gettin' over some bloomin' wall or other. It's a shyme that people are allowed to top their walls with broken bottles. This 'ere's what comes of it. Come along, Bersicker."
Breen's uncle was "just too dear for anything," to which the lady with the movable hair and mob-cap not only agreed, but added the remark of her own, "that folks like him was a sight better than the kind she was a-gettin'."
An' wasn't there the Governor of Kura Island, an' the Chief iv Police, Japanese gentlemen, sir, an' didn't they come aboard the Ghost as his guests, a-bringin' their wives along wee an' pretty little bits of things like you see 'em painted on fans. An' as he was a-gettin' under way, didn't the fond husbands get left astern-like in their sampan, as it might be by accident?
Domeny, my dear. Thinks I constant, 'I wonder how Mrs. Domeny be a-gettin' on, and I wonder how the poor widow-man be a-bearin' up. Come in an' sit ye down, do; ye must be mortal hot and tired, walkin' so far in your deep." Mrs.
And me with all them people inside what knowed her, waitin' ter see 'er." "Give her a little time," Jim pleaded. "She ain't rode for a year." "Time!" shouted Barker. "How much does she want? She's been back a month and instead o' bracin' up, she's a-gettin' worse. There's only one thing for me to do." "What's that?" asked Jim, uneasily. "I'm goin' ter call her, and call her hard."
"Sartin; dogs as has strayed away from ther homes, an' took back to a wild state. It happens that ways sometimes. Ther call o' the wild, they name it. Sumpin' seems to pull the critters back, an' they break away from human kind to roam the woods an' hunt ther livin'. I seen the pack once or twice, an' I kinder believe ther a-gettin' more fiercer all the while." "Wild dogs, eh?
"Be I a-gettin' ready to be married, mother?" asked Ellen, with the strangest look of wonder and awe and anticipation.
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