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"An' it was a-workin' out as lovely as Billy-oh," he said, "till that syme underbred costermonger's swipe remembered he was Methody an' him who, only a few d'ys back, went raound s'yin' 'scrag the "Boomskys"! A couple o' thousand pounds gone as quick as look at it. Oh, I eyn't never goin' to git over this."
That was what bothered poor old Steve Hollis when he was handin' in his checks 't least it was th' same general sort of idea. I guess you never knew Steve, did you, Rayburn? He was an old railroader had been a-workin' on th' Old Colony one way and another for more'n twenty years.
It seems but yeste'day, I tell ye, that the Squire died, but mebbe it's a matter of six-an'-twenty 'ear agone since 'e came to me where I was a-workin' in 'is fields, and he pinted out to me the nurse wot was walkin' up and down near the edge of the pasture carryin' his baby all in long clothes.
After I'd arn't a heap of money for Marster Kennedy he wanted to go to the Legislatur', and as some on 'em wouldn't vote for him while he owned a nigger, he set me free, and sent for me to come home. 'Twas hard partin' wid dem boys and Marster Morton, I tell you, but I kinder wanted to see mother, who had been here a good while, and who, like a fool, was a-workin' an' is a-workin' for nothin'."
It was ten o'clock when he reached home, and he heard the sound of tools as he lifted the latch. "Why, mother," said Seth, "how is it as father's working so late?" "It's none o' thy feyther as is a-workin'; it's thy brother as does iverything, for there's niver nobody else i' th' way to do nothin'."
I couldn't help thinkin' quite a number of thoughts as I stood on a barell with a board acrost it, afraid as death of fallin' and a workin' for dear life, and the other female sisters a standin' round on similar barells, all a-workin' fur beyond their strengths, and all afraid of fallin', and we all a-knowin' what we had got ahead on us a paperin' and a gettin' up the fair.
Whether that was what had caused her stammering, he could not quite decide, although he gave the matter an absurd amount of thought. She went on quickly: "He's lived here, workin' of his little mounting farm an' an' an' doin' jobs aroun', an' such, an' I've lived here, a-workin' mine, a little, but not much.
"What fellow in Larne?" demanded Margaret with asperity. "Why, him that used to be so swate when ye was a-workin' in the mill." "Who told you that?" "Oh, now, you needn't try to kape it from me! Don't you think I knew all about it? Do you think Dora wouldn't tell me, honey? Don't I know you was engaged to him before you left the mill at Larne? Has he gone an' desaved you now, Maggie?
It would take up their minds, and kep 'em out of vittles and other mischief. It wuz somethin' like providin' a circus for 'em. But howsumever, the Deacon wuz a-workin' at this; he wuzn't quite satisfied with its runnin' gear, and he wuz a-perfectin' this rat trap every leisure minute he had outside of his buzz saw and threshin' machine business, and so he wuz fearful busy.
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