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I've been a-tellin' her she ought to have Doc Taylor in to look at her. If I had the pain that girl's a-sufferin' right now I'd be in bed, that's what I would. I'll bet a stack o' blues she got this here potomaine poisonin'. Better run right along, Miss Donnie, before the pain gets worse, an' I'll see Doc Taylor an' tell him to bring you down some medicine or somethin'."
"I guess I understand 'er all right," Hepsie said sullenly; "'t wouldn't make no difference, you bein' up. She'd be a-tellin' me what t' do just th' same, an' I'm tired enough, washdays, without havin' somebody t' aggravate me about every piece that goes through th' rench." She stood waiting for Elizabeth to speak, and when she did not, added resentfully: "You an' me always got along.
'But what about her you kidnapped? Tell me all about it, or it will be worse for you. 'Ain't I a-tellin' you as fast as I can?
"If I had I wouldn't tell you." "Must be purty good shot now?" "I hain't shot a pistol off fer four year," said the lad again shortly, and Steve stared. "Whut devilmint are you in up here now?" asked Jason calmly and with no apparent notice of the start Steve gave. "Who's been a-tellin' you lies about me?" asked Steve with angry suspicion. "I hain't heerd a word," said Jason coolly.
"My eye, gov'nor," said he, returning radiant with his treasure to Reginald, and thrusting it into his hand; "'ere, lay 'old. 'Ere's a slice o' luck. Somethink like that there daily bread you was a-tellin' me of t'other day. No fear, I ain't forgot it. Now, I say sassages. What do you say?"
"Are you Miss Caroline, ma'am?" said her guide to her respectfully, as he tried to shorten his lengthy strides. "Yes, my name is Carolan," she replied, trying to hide a smile. "Thought so, ma'am. I heerd the boss a-tellin' Miss Grainger as you would be a-comin' to Chinkie's on yer way up ter Minervy Downs. Here's the 'Queen's, miss, an' there's the boss and his sister and Mr.
"Well, it's natur' to want to live," said Miss Roxy. "Life is sweet, and in a gen'l way we was made to live. Don't worry; the Lord'll bring you right when His time comes. Folks isn't always supported jest when they want to be, nor as they want to be; but yet they're supported fust and last. Ef I was to tell you how as I has hope in your case, I shouldn't be a-tellin' you the truth.
"Well," and Bridget put both arms akimbo and smiled a smile of complete satisfaction, "what was I a-tellin' ye, anyways? Faith, don't it beat all how things come thrue when ye think 'em pleasant an' hard enough?"
"I mean," he said, "what I'm a-tellin' yer. I wanter be a good boy. My pa, he drinks. He drinks like " The word he used, in description, was not the sort of a word that should have issued from childish lips. "An' my big brother he ain't like Pa, but he's a bum, too! I don't wanter be like they are not if I kin help it! I wanter be th' sort of a guy King Arthur was, an' them knights of his'n.
"I was just a-tellin' Captain Plunkett that we'd done a mighty bad stroke this mornin', but that this 'ud be a worse one, for " "Why, it 's Phil!" cheerfully exclaimed Mr. Meredith. "Welcome, lad, and all the more that I feared 't was another call the thieving Whigs were about to pay my cribs and barn. Where have ye been, lad?
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