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Updated: June 15, 2025
"'It's twenty years ago, goes on Enright, 'while I'm that season in Texas, that a sharp packs his blankets into Yellow City an' puts it up he'll practice some law. No; he ain't wanted, but he never does give no gent a chance to say so. He comes trackin' in onannounced, an' the first we-all saveys, thar's his sign a-swingin', an' ashoorin' the sports of Yellow City of the presence of
Why, sir, he thess took one look at the gate an' then he cut an' run hard ez he could limped acrost the yard thess like a flash o' zig-zag lightnin' an' 'fore anybody could stop him, he had clumb to the tip top o' the butter-bean arbor clumb it thess like a cat an' there he set, a-swingin' his feet under him, an' laughin', the rain thess a-streakin' his hair all over his face.
Jack was a good bold boy, sure enough, and he got the key into the lock and turned it. Wid that I swung the door open for him, so hard that it crashed against the wall and near shook the house down. And then me fine boy saw all the casks and the hogsheads in the cellar a-swingin' and a-rockin' and a-whirlin' around, as if all the wine had been in him instead of in them.
Over her small window she had hung a black shawl to keep out the light, and upon this screen were thrown recurrent flashes of sunlight. "Still a-swingin'," she murmured. "Wonder how fur back we be now!" She was herself surprised at the eagerness she felt to observe at last the results of their extraordinary attempt. She rose quickly and was very soon ready to leave her room.
But the fifty-nine other people in the car with me didn't seem to be afraid, and I thought of the thirty-five other cars, all full, and a-swingin' up in the air with me; and the thought revived me some, and I managed to maintain my dignity and composure. Josiah acted real highlarious, and he wanted to swing round time and agin; he said "he would give a cent to keep a-goin' all day long."
Well, things was sorter whoopin', when somebody ups an' tells Harve that Rich had said somep'n' agin Nance an' him, an' somebody ups an' tells Rich that Harve had said somep'n' agin Nance an' HIM. In a minute, stranger, hit was like two wild-cats in thar. Folks got 'em parted, though, but thar was no more a-swingin' of Nance that night.
The bell wuz made of the white roses, and a fair white lily hung down, a-swingin' its noiseless music out into the hearts below sacred music which we all seemed to hear in our inmost hearts as we looked into the faces that stood under that magic bell.
Wot's a keepin' him?" said the first speaker, glaring over his shoulder in the direction of the door. "Twelve sharp, that's wot it says," shuddered a small, pinched thief. "He's a-swingin' now." Suddenly a wild, appalling shriek arose from the corner behind them. As one man, they whirled.
"If you stir from here, you're no son of mine," said Ezekiel. "But she's in danger, dad." "As she oughter be. By mornin' she'll be strewed along the shore and not a spar to mark where she's a-swingin' now." "And the men?" "It's a jedgment, boy."
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