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Updated: June 14, 2025
"I's a-wantin' ye to help Daddy Skinner," she whispered, with drooping lids. "I don't need no help." At that moment a wail from the infant startled them both. Professor Young's hand dropped as if it had been struck. Tess only grasped the basket more firmly. Her secret was out. Without a word, she slipped the cover from the child's face, and pushed the sugar rag into its mouth.
I soon learned, however, that the general out-at-elbows appearance was due to another cause. A genial Cockney gave me the hint. "'Ave you joined up, matey?" he asked. I told him that I had. "Well, 'ere's a friendly tip for you. Don't wear them good clo'es w'en you goes to the depot. You won't see 'em again likely, an' if you gets through the war you might be a-wantin' of 'em.
"Don't wake 'em up. I just naturally got ter tell you-all somethin', Auntie Sue; but, I ain't a-wantin' Mr. Burns an' that there Betty Jo woman ter hear. I reckon I best come through the winder." Acting upon the word, she climbed carefully into the room. "Judy, child! What ?"
The boys fairly screamed with laughter at this exhibition, and Uncle Jake was so overcome that he felt called upon to take another dram a contingency that was renewed when Tip swung from the measure of a cotillon to that of a breakdown, singing "I hain't bin a-wantin' no mo' wines mo' wines Sence daddy got drunk on low wines low wines." "Come, Tip," said Teague, "yess shet up shop.
Come, sit down here on this log, and tell me about whatever it is that troubles you; then you can go back to sleep again." "I ain't a-wantin' ter set down. I ain't been asleep. Hit seems like I can't never sleep no more." She wrung her hands and turned her poor twisted body about nervously; then demanded with startling abruptness: "When do you-all 'low she'll git back?"
"Whose brat air it?" he asked, with no shadowing suspicion in his glance. "Where did ye get it, Tessibel?" "I air a-carin' for it for a while. I comed, Satisfied " Could she ask these people in sore grief for a dress that the dead child on the board had worn? "Ye comed for what?" asked the man. "I air a-wantin' to take him to the church, and I ain't got no dress for him.
You'll be mighty fur off your feet if you let Matt Pike put things in your head that hain't no business a-bein' there, and special if you find yourself a-wantin' to know where he's a-perambulatin' in his everlastin' meanderin's.
"So ye have, Meejor, so ye have. Oi was hearin' about it, av coorse. It's the Tim Tuff Assowseashun, aint it?" "Now, looker yere!" said Tuff sharply, "Aincher got no orders 'bout dis meetin'?" "Oi have that, Meejor. Oi was towld that you an' some friends av yourn moight be a-wantin' seats, an' Oi was ter see that ye got 'em." "Dat's all right, den.
She said, 'Young housekeepers was allers a-wantin' rags, and, in course, there wa'n't nothin' but what was bran'-new out of the store. Can I ever forget the Hill children, with their mysterious movements, their hidings, and their unaccountable absences? and then the work-basket on my toilet-table, on my wedding-morning! the little pin-cushions and emery-sacks, the fantastic thimble-cases, and the fish-shaped needle-books! all as nice as their handy little fingers could make, and every stitch telling of their earnest love and bright faces!
The Professor backed fearfully away from the dangerous looking horse and the equally formidable-appearing cowboy. Whereat Patches addressed Stranger with a roar of savage wrath. "Whoa! You consarned, square-headed, stiff-legged, squint-eyed, lop-eared, four-flusher, you. Whoa, I tell you! Cain't you see I'm a-wantin' to shake hands with this here man what the boss has interduced me to?"
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