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Updated: June 24, 2025
"It's got two legs, a bill, and a place for tail-feathers, and that's near enough to a hen for fightin' purposes in this town accordin' to what I've seen of the sport here," insisted the showman. "The principal hen-fightin' science in Smyrna seems to be to stand on t' other hen and peck him to pieces!
It almost beggared the poor Methodies of that day to raise so much money, but g-glory be to G-god! we can raise it now any day in the year, and in the next g-generation we can buy our p-persecutors." "So Ebenezer Johnson, accordin' to the autum bawler's patter, got popped in the mazzard, my brother of the surplice? But he didn't climb no ladder, did he?"
"But dash it all," said the Pilgrim, "me and my mate " "Hush!" said the publican. "How long are the horses likely to be?" we asked the driver. "Dunno," he grunted. "Might be three or four hours. It's all accordin'." "Now, look here," said the Pilgrim, "me and my mate wanter catch the train." "Hush-sh-sh!" from the publican in a fierce whisper.
I found Mr. Lambkin in, and he told me as how, accordin' to last accounts, Gusty was stayin' with her uncle Van Quintem. I knowed your address, and come up here short metre. I was goin' to pretend that I was a man in search of work, and trust to luck to get a sight of Gusty.
"But after the way the missus thinks I lied to 'er about takin' the next train home from Barstow, anything I say 'll be used agin' me. My wife's got brains. She ain't put it down that the trains have quit runnin'. Accordin' to her figures, Casey's lied and he's in a hole again, an' it'll be up to her an' Jack to run windlass an' pull 'im out.
Elder Skates'll reel off the names, accordin' to which you can pile yerselves in accordin'ly, two 'n' two, side by side, thus 'n' so, male an' female, created He them!" Flushed with inspiration, Captain Pharo glanced triumphantly at his wife, who, at this more than Pentateuchal illustration, refused to sneer.
"But yer told him yer wouldn't round the niggers up, an' stow 'em away in the boat." "Not till I get service on the young lady. It wouldn't do no good." "Whut's the idee?" "Damned if I know exactly. All I know is whut I kin do accordin' ter law, an' whut I can't. The papers is all straight 'nough, but they've got ter be served afore we kin lay hands on a damned thing.
The trouble with Hobson is that he is now giving his best thought and energy to his own business." "I see," Drake said. "Well, that's accordin' to human nature, I reckon. They say Hobson speculates in grain an' cotton, an' when a feller gets to playin' a game as excitin' as that it is hard for 'im to get down to humdrum matters."
The boys went out of their way to accommodate their disreputable looking companion, for they would have struck across by another street if going home direct. "Mrs. Hosmer lives in that small cottage ahead of us," Hugh was saying, pointing as he spoke. The tramp stared, and nodded his head. "Looks right neat, accordin' to my notion," he said.
"An' accordin' to the account you've given, that's about what you've been doin'," one of the strangers said with an approving nod, which reassured the boy to such an extent that he answered without hesitation the further questions which were asked.
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