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Brother Abe pricked up his eats at the formal address. "Cap'n Rose," she repeated, deliberately dwelling on the title. "I never believe in callin' a man tew account in front of his wife. It gives him somebody handy ter blame things on tew jest like ole Adam. Naow, look a-here!
It was then that with stern determination Susan sought Daniel Burton. "Look a-here, Daniel Burton," she accosted him abruptly, "I've done all I can now, an' it's up to you." The man looked up, plainly startled. "Why, Susan, you don't mean you aren't GOING, are you?" "Goin' nothin' shucks!" tossed Susan to one side disdainfully.
"Now, look a-here," he said peremptorily; "I don't want no more funny business. This claim's mine. Your old man ain't got a solitary right to it. So you got t' go. I'll give you jus' ten minutes." With this, he resumed his pacing, comforting his beat with occasional draughts from a flask. Dallas strove hard to collect herself. "I can't do anything till dad comes," she called to him, finally.
"Forty-eight, and we figured it up the loss at twelve-fifty apiece," Morris explained. "That's what we billed 'em to Feinholz for." Blaustein frowned. "But look a-here, Perlmutter," he said: "them insurance companies won't pay you what you were going to sell them garments for. They'll only pay you what they cost to make up.
"Hullo!" returned Carroll, and stood waiting while the man swung his trap round with cautious hisses he drove a high-stepping mare. "Are you a man by the name of Carroll?" said he, holding the fretting mare tightly, and seesawing the lines, as she tried to dart first one way, then the other. Carroll nodded. "Well, look a-here," said the man, "I heerd you wanted to buy some hosses."
Look a-here, listen!" Susan dropped all pretense of work now, and came close to the fence. She was obviously very much in earnest. "That boy hain't been dressed but twice since that woman came a week ago. She won't let him dress himself alone an' now he don't want to be dressed. Says he's too tired.
"I tell you I don't!" bawled the skipper. "Why, yas you do." "Say, look a-here, What's-your-name, I'm goin' to give ye ten seconds to tell me the name of that critter." He made a clutch to one side, and then remembered with a flush that he was no longer in reach of a spike-rack. "Why, that was Kun'l Gideon Ward," faltered Uncle Jordan, impressed at last by the Cap'n's fury. "I thought ye knew."
That's why you're getting so smart all of a sudden about government! Look a-here. Just l'me tell you something. You're lucky if you git enough to eat this winter. Do you know there's talk of the factory shuttin' down? Dog tax! Why you're lucky if you git shoes." Stubby had turned away and was standing with his back to his father, hands in his pockets. "And l'me tell you some'en else, young man.
"That week, as I say, was 'nough for me. The teacher she was a lady, mind y'! tries to tell me that it's the same blamed sun we see comin' up every mornin'. 'Look a-here, now, I says; 'don't we git a new moon onct in a while? Then, what's the matter with havin' a change of sun? Well, that plumb stumped her. She shut up."
"Skates's raisin' a pretty good colt thar, 'ceptin' 't she's a leetle twisty in her off hin' leg. What do you consider on her worth, Skates?" "I refused two hunderd dollars for 'er last week," said Brother Skates, in a clearly round, secular tone of voice. "Now look a-here, Skates; that stock o' yourn's good workin'-stock, but they're tirrible hard feeders.
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