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But next day again, I was working there same as before, and there's my young miss a-sitting there in the very spot only nobody with her this time." Olof had been lying on his back, hands under his head, looking up into the darkness. All at once he sat up, and stared at the speaker. "'Twas a queer girl, thinks I, and lights my pipe.

Whose look was mild, whose speech was slow, Whose hair was whiter than the snow, Whose face was very like a crow, With eyes, like cinders, all aglow, Who seemed distracted with his woe, Who rocked his body to and fro, And muttered mumblingly and low, As if his mouth were full of dough, Who snorted like a buffalo That summer evening, long ago, A-sitting on a gate.

And there he has everything around the room 'is little table and chairs and toy pianner, and I've got to jump over 'em on my 'ands and knees with that there wicious scoundrel a-sitting on my neck and yelling, "Come on, you d d old slow-coach! Wot did I give you them oats for?" Now I puts it to you, Mr.

I know how to pity 'em, for when mammy locked me up till I'd agree to steal again, there was such a gnawing and gnawing, that I should have give in, if it hadn't been for you. "Every time, I'd say to myself, I can't stand it no longer; then I'd see you a-sitting in your donkey carriage, looking at me with such sorry eyes.

"Why, look you," responded that talkative lady, "if you have yonder green gown, you can don it of an even when your master comes home from work, and he'll be main pleased to see you a-sitting in the cottage door with your bit o' needlework, in a pretty green gown." "Ay, so he will!" said Margaret, suddenly making up as much mind as she had. "I thank you Mistress Clere.

Thereupon the accused dropped him a little short courtesy, looked him steadily in the face with her pale gray eyes, and delivered herself as follows: "If you please, sir, I was a-sitting by th' old well, with baby in my arms; and I was mortal tired, I was, wi' carring of him; he be uncommon heavy for his age; and, if you please, sir, he is uncommon resolute; and while I was so he give a leap right out of my arms and fell down th' old well.

Arguments were being used to prove that, according to all logic, if a ghost appeared one night, it was safe to appear a second. "Who'll speak up to go and watch for it?" asked Mrs. Duff. "I can't. I can't leave Dan. Sally Green's a-sitting up by him now; for Mr. Jan says if he's left again, he shall hold me responsible.

"I know no more than a babe unborn," declared Mr. Wilks. "The last I see of the cap'n 'e was a-sitting at this table opposite you." "Sam wouldn't hurt a fly," said Miss Nugent, with a kind glance at her favourite. "Well, where is the governor, then?" inquired her brother. "Why didn't he go home last night? He has never stayed out before." "Yes, he has," said Mrs.

Harper told about Joe scaring her with a firecracker, and you told about Peter and the Painkiller " "Just as true as I live!" "And then there was a whole lot of talk 'bout dragging the river for us, and 'bout having the funeral Sunday, and then you and old Miss Harper hugged and cried, and she went." "It happened just so! It happened just so, as sure as I'm a-sitting in these very tracks.

"He ha' been that," Gideon said, after the chorus of approval had died away. "Oi seed t' young un today a-sitting in front o' th' cottage, a-talking and laughing wi' Bill." "They be good uns, feyther and son, though they tells oi as neither on them bain't Yaarkshire." The general feeling among the company was evidently one of surprise that any good thing should be found outside Yorkshire.