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Updated: June 8, 2025
At this moment the outer door shot open with a bang. Hal looked out into the corridor to see what had caused the disturbance. "Look a-here!" sounded the voice of machinist Williamson, in an injured tone. "Here I am, looking about for a quiet place for a five minutes' smoke. Captain Benson sends me out to the 'Hastings, telling me that it will be all right there.
Jes' look a-here," and she drew up the chicken, opened its mouth, and showed the butt of a fish-hook it had swallowed. Upon further examination, it was found that the hook had been baited with a kernel of corn. "I've been noticin' a powerful disturbance among my fowls, an' every onct in while one of 'em would go over the fence like litenin' and I couldn't see what went with it.
Here I got to come downtown about them capes, and my whole store's full of people. Why didn't you ship them capes back to me like I told you?" "Look a-here, Feinholz," Morris exclaimed in tones sufficiently loud for Feder to overhear, "what d'ye take us for, anyhow? Greenhorns? Do you think you can write us a dirty letter like that and then come down and get them capes just for the asking?"
Look a-here, if somethin' awful was goin' to happen to you, would YOU want folks to be talkin' to you all the time about it? No, I guess you wouldn't. An' so we don't talk here. We're just waitin'. It may come in a year, it may come sooner, or later. It may not come at all.
"Now, look a-here, Joe," Isom began, in quite a changed tone, "don't you fly up and leave an old man in the lurch that way." "You know what I said," Joe told him. "I'll give in to you, Joe; I'll give you everything you ask for, and more," yielded Isom, seeing that Joe intended to leave. "I'll put it in writing if you want me to Joe I'll do anything to keep you, son.
"'Look a-here, she says to me, 'there's a unforeseen contingency in my room. An' it smells. "So I went right in, an' sure enough it did smell, for she had turned on all the gases, besides the one that was lighted. "'What did you do that for? says I, a-turnin' them off as fast as I could. "'I'd like to know what they're made for, says she, 'if they isn't to be turned on.
"Well, I've run away. I was living with Mrs. Wiley over-harbour. Do you know Mrs. Wiley?" "No." "Well, you don't want to know her. She's an awful woman. My, how I hate her! She worked me to death and wouldn't give me half enough to eat, and she used to larrup me 'most every day. Look a-here."
The witch of Hawthorne's story never gazed more fondly at her "Feathertop" than Samuel now gazed at Abraham puffing away on his pipe; but he determined that Abraham's fate should not be as poor "Feathertop's." Abe must remain a man. "Naow look a-here, Abe," he began after a while, laying his hand on the other's knee, "dew yew know that yew come put' nigh gittin' swamped in the big breakers?
'I didn't ask you to bring my daughter back, says he, speakin' gruff, and very different from the way he spoke before, 'and what's more, I didn't want her back, and what's more yet, I'm not goin' to pay you a red cent. 'Now, look a-here, says I, mighty sharp, 'none o' that, old man; fork over the money or I'll lay you out stiff as a poker, and help myself.
Ere he had crossed the room, however, to where she stood, his way was barred by Philemon. "Look a-here, squire," the officer remonstrated, "I ain't a-goin' ter stand by and see Janice hit, no ways, so if there 's any thrashin' ter be done, you've got ter begin on me." "Out of my way!" roared Mr. Meredith. Phil folded his arms.
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