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Updated: June 19, 2025
"Of course, now our load's gone, the brake works all right, an' I hooks a-holt onto the side about a hundred feet from where Jess stands like a marble statute, lookin' down inter the gulch. "'Come on, Jud, says I, layin' my hand onto his arm soft-like; 'we gits out here. "He don't say nothin', but tries to shake me off.
"He's got a touch of the Tasmanian blood in him, all right. I guess old man Hall's pets have been busy back in the hills there. Wonder how Bill got a-holt o' him!" And then, with every sign of deferential friendliness, the man endeavoured to approach Finn.
So I says, a raff is what I's arter; it doan' MAKE no track. "I see a light a-comin' roun' de p'int bymeby, so I wade' in en shove' a log ahead o' me en swum more'n half way acrost de river, en got in 'mongst de drift-wood, en kep' my head down low, en kinder swum agin de current tell de raff come along. Den I swum to de stern uv it en tuck a-holt.
So I says, a raff is what I's arter; it doan' MAKE no track. "I see a light a-comin' roun' de p'int bymeby, so I wade' in en shove' a log ahead o' me en swum more'n half way acrost de river, en got in 'mongst de drift-wood, en kep' my head down low, en kinder swum agin de current tell de raff come along. Den I swum to de stern uv it en tuck a-holt.
Is it true what you told me jest now, that you never done a hand's turn o' work in all your born life? Must feel kinder awful, don't it?" "I'm going to try to work, anyway," Harvey replied stoutly. "Only it's all dead new." "Lay a-holt o' that tackle, then. Behind ye!"
The First National promised me another loan on the Arizona ranch, but Brad has got a-holt of it and he's called in my last loan. I'm not quittin'. I'll put up a fight yet, but unless things break for me I'm about done." "Oh, Dad!" Her impulse of sympathy carried Joyce straight to him. Soft, rounded arms went round his neck with impassioned tenderness. "I didn't dream it was as bad as that.
Aunt Polly she turns around slow and severe, and says: "You, Tom!" "Well WHAT?" he says, kind of pettish. "Don t you what ME, you impudent thing hand out them letters." "What letters?" "THEM letters. I be bound, if I have to take a-holt of you I'll " "They're in the trunk. There, now. And they're just the same as they was when I got them out of the office.
But it was when the tea wagon was rolled out and placed before Madam Lee that his interest was not to be curbed. "Ain't that cute now?" he commented, his eyes following the unaccustomed sight with alertness. "The feller that got a-holt of that idee found a good one. Trundles along like a little baby carriage, don't it?"
The judge will give you the worst of it. He rung the door bell and the girl that opened the door she looked kind o' surprised when she seen me, and in we went. "Tell Professor Booth that Doctor Wilkins wants to see him again," says the man a-holt o' me, not letting loose none. And we says nothing further till the perfessor comes, which he does, slow and absent-minded.
That notion of hitchin' a string to the slide in the stove door so'st you could open the draught without stirrin' out of your chair that took me in the night. There warn't no waitin' 'til mornin'! Long ago I learned that. Once the idee has a-holt of me there's nothin' to do but haul myself out of bed, even if it's midnight an' colder'n the devil, an' try out that notion."
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