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Ef ye're fearful ye can't then ride beyond the lines, an' come inter ours thet-a-way Aunt Deby'll go ter the other flank, an' try ter git a-past Breckinridge's pickets, an' I'll 'tempt ter make my way thru the center. We may all or none o' us git thru. I can't gin ye much advice, ez ye'll hev ter trust mainly ter yerself.
"Of course I shall let her know at once," Tillie replied; and in her voice, for the first time in the doctor's acquaintance with her, there was a touch of gentle complacency. "I'll get your letter out the tree-holler to-morrow morning, then, when I go a-past and I can stamp it and mail it fur you till noon. Then she'll get it till Monday morning yet! By gum, won't she, now, be tickled!"
This Lily gal was the wust of the lot, and I don't put it a-past her to 'a' done some of the shootin' herself. But we brung 'em all along. "Now, Jedge," he continued, "of co'se, I think I can do something for these two bucks Bill and Jim this gal only persuaded 'em to run away with her. But if I was you, I shore would sell that Lily gal South, right away.
"Looks like it had laid out in the dew last night," breathed Johnnie. "Or for a week," supplied Pros. He scanned the little brown thing, then her face. "All right," he said dubiously; "if that there tells you that he come a-past here, we'll foller this road though it 'pears to me like we ought to stick to the cyar." "It isn't far to our house," urged Johnnie. "Let's go there first, anyhow."
He seemed some sheepish when he see me, an' he said, hasty, that he'd just got there, an' it come over me like a flash't he'd come to see Elspie off. An' I marched a-past him without hardly a word. "We wasn't mor'n out o' the house when we heard a shout, an' there come Silas an' Timothy, tearin' along full tilt in the store delivery wagon, wavin' their arms.
It was very evident that Stoddard desired to detain them in conversation, but Johnnie smilingly, yet with decision, cut the interview short. "I don't see why you hurried me a-past that-a-way," the little mother said resentfully, when they had gone a few steps. "I wanted to stay and talk to the gentleman, if you didn't. I think he's one of the nicest persons I've met since I've been in Cottonville.
"Git in the haymow an' think they got to have their blamed old pipe a-goin' " "Cigarettes, more likely," said another. "More darn devilment comes from cigarettes " "Why'n't you " "Ount know nung 'bout tramps," said Linc. "All I seen was the fire. I was a-comin' long a-past there an' I smelt the smoke an' thinks I What say?" "Why'n't you telefoam down?" Linc, the hero, shrunk a foot.
He was finishing when she sped by the window and came sparkling into the room with the announcement that the guests from far Cheyenne were coming. Frances was up in excitement; Mrs. Chadron searched the floor for her unfinished sock. "What was that flashed a-past the winder like a streak a minute ago?" Banjo inquired. "Flashed by the window?" Nola repeated, puzzled.
Then I come to a farmhouse an' an' I went around that so's not to scare the Dog, an' I went pretty near as far as Downey's Dump yes, a little a-past it only to one side when up jumps a Partridge as big as a Turkey, an' a hull gang of young ones about thirty or forty. I bet I seen them forty rod away, an' they all flew, but one that lighted on a tree as far as oh, 'cross that field, anyway.
"But did you know 'bout him? Say Johnnie Consadine turn yourself round from that old loom and answer me, I was goin' a-past the door, and when I ketched sight o' you and him settin' there talkin' as if you'd knowed each other all your lives, why you could have could have knocked me down with a feather." Johnnie sat up on her heels and turned a laughing face across her shoulder.
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