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"Well, you know who troubled him, don't you, Bart?" "I mean about the cost o' them repairs in the engine room. Unless he can come through in thirty days with the balance he owes, the boiler people are goin' to libel the Maggie to protect their claim." Mr. Gibney arched his bushy eyebrows. "How do you know?" he demanded. "He was a-tellin' me," Mr. McGuffey admitted weakly.
It was readin' Scriptures to him she was when I come away, and him a-settin' there, right pitiful, a-tellin' her how he'd lost all he had in the flood. A religious talkin' man if I ever heard one." "Red-headed?" inquired Myrtella, arresting a hot iron in mid air. "He was." "When she gits done with him, you send him over here," Myrtella brought the iron down on the board with a thud.
"I'm a-tellin' you, man," he was saying, "that there wan't nothin' else to be done, an' I'm a-gettin' damn sick o' hearin' you finding fault all the time with the way I been a-runnin' o' this little job." "I'm not finding fault, Simms," returned another voice which the girl recognized immediately as Divine's; "although I do think that it was a mistake to so totally disable the Lotus as you did.
The old woman put out her bony hand and laid it on the girl's arm. "Sally, you are not a-tellin' me the truth. You are a-goin' to try to see John Westerfelt." "Well, what if I am, mother?" "I don't believe I'd go, darlin'. I'd be above lettin' any triflin' man know I was that bad off I railly would try to have a little more pride."
"You're certainly bard to get information from," Jim burst out irritably. "Tell us about it. You ain't goin' to lose money just a-tellin' a guy." "I guess I choked him some," came the answer. Then, by way of explanation, "He woke up on me." "You did it neat. I never heard a sound." "Jim," the other said with seriousness, "it's a hangin' matter. I fixed 'm. I had to. He woke up on me.
But all the same Reuben's salute seemed mutilated and boorish to the man of more finished breeding, and helped to mark him as unworthy to be the suitor of so charming a creature as the rustic beauty. "Mr. De Blacquaire's a-tellin' us, Reuben," said old Fuller, "as theer's been some talk o' breaking up the church band and starting a horgin i' the place on it."
And it might be some enterprisin' old goose-raiser a-tellin' his oldest boy the best way to save the white wings of ganders. But I don't believe this wuz so. There wuz a riz up, noble look on the old man's face that wuz never ketched, I don't believe, with wrestlin' with geese on a farm, and neighbors all round him.
Kep' a-tellin' her de ticket was good for ten days an' dey'd go wid her back to town; an' dat if she'd stay dey'd take her 'cross de ribber to see de city. I seed she wanted ter git home to her husban', an' she tol' 'em so. Den dey tried to make her believe he was comin' for her, an' dey pestered her so an' got her so mixed up wid deir lies dat I was feared she was gwine to give in, arter all.
They ain't been a thing I've enjoyed ez much in my life ez my sackerfices on account o' Sonny's edjercation not a one. Th' ain't a patch on any ol' coat I've got but seems to me to stand for some advantage to him. Well, sir, it was thess like I'm a-tellin' you. He set still ez long ez he could, an' then he riz an' spoke.
No, he wuz fur away as fur as the Real is from the Unreal. Wall, we filed into the Loontown meetin'-house in pretty good shape. The same meetin'-house I had been sent to reconoiter. But Cephas hadn't no black handkerchief, and he looked worried about it. He had shed tears a-tellin' me about it, what a oversight it wuz, while I wuz a fixin' on his mournin' weed.
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