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No, you never did, sez I. 'But, on the other 'and, this 'ere cove is the very spit o' the poachin' cove as I'm a-lookin' for. True! sez I to meself, 'but this 'ere cove is a-wearin' of a bell-crowner 'at, but the poachin' cove never wore a bell-crowner nor never will. Still, I must say I come very near pullin' trigger on ye just to make sure.
"I might get a strip or two more off, but it's short enough already. Let's see; how long have I been a-wearin' of that shirt; oh, I remember, I bought it jist two days afore Five Bob was pupped. I can't afford a new shirt jist yet; howsomenever, seein' it's Brummy, I'll jist borrow a couple more strips and sew 'em on agen when I git home."
"But some one was following me." "Well, it weren't I. A keeper I be, a-lookin' for a poachin' cove just about your size, and it's precious lucky for you as you are a-wearin' that there bell-crowned 'at!" "Why so?"
All dat time I been a-wearin' clo'es, en now you come en tarrygate me, sayin' I got to stan' up in de nekked rind en wave fedders 'cause I in slaveryment? You bes' ain't let Mistuh Peter Champneys hear you talkin' lak dat!" The bewildered and baffled young man raved in three languages, but Emma Campbell flatly refused either to be in "slaveryment" or in the "nekked rind."
But nothin' but money'll do it, an' I can see by them old shoes you're a-wearin', an' you goin' with that old last year's coat all winter, that you that you ain't earned but just enough to keep you an' Gracie alive." "That's all true enough, Mrs. Mulhall," returned the nurse, cheerfully, "but I am sure it will help you just to tell me about the trouble."
"Yes, yes," said the Captain, "I take that ar's the reason you've ben a-wearin' the ring he gin you and them ribbins you've got on your neck this blessed minute, and why you've giggled off to singin'-school, and Lord knows where with him all summer, that ar's clear now." "But, father," said Sally, getting redder and more earnest, "I don't care for him really, and I've told him so.
Her feet were bare, and their bareness was only a revelation of greater beauty, so perfect was their arched slenderness. Miss Dunbar crossed them with unembarrassed freedom, and looked at the stranger as if she found her worth steady inspection. "Thet thar's a purty dress you're a-wearin'," she vouchsafed at length. Rebecca glanced down at her costume.
Wall, I didn't stay much longer, for weariness, and also the cords of affection, wuz a-drawin' me back to Miss Planks. Wall, the days and weeks wuz a-wearin' away, and Josiah and I wuz a-enjoyin' ourselves first rate. The children, and Isabelle, and Krit wuz a-havin' jest as good a time, too, as four smart young folks can have.
"An' I be very old an' tired, Peter; my 'eart be all wore out wi' beatin' an' beatin' all these years 'tis a wonder as it didn't stop afore now but a a stapil, Peter, don't 'ave no 'eart to go a-beatin' an' a-wearin' of itself away?" "No, Ancient." "So 'ere be I, a-standin' in the Valley o' the Shadow, an' waitin' for God's Angel to take my 'and for to show me the way.
"Oh, all right then. Go on. Supposin' I am killed?" "Will you give me your scalps?" "Your ma'll smack you if she catches you a-wearin' them," he temporized. "I don't have to wear them when she's around. Now if you got killed, Laban, somebody'd have to get them scalps. Why not me?" "Why not?" he repeated. "That's correct, and why not you? All right, Jesse. I like you, and your pa.
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