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"He didn't make no answer. Just kept on a-puffin'. I got up to go. Then he laid his hand on my sleeve. "'Bailey, says he, 'when Betsy Mayo was ailin', her sister's tribe was all for the Faith Cure and her husband's relations was high for patent medicine. When the Faith Curists got to workin', in would come some of the patent mediciners and give 'em the bounce.
"Yet nob'dy pities mo, or thinks I'm ailin' owt at all; T' poor slave mun tug an' tew wi't wark, Wolivver shoo can crawl." Old Ruth was far from being as nattle and querulous as the famous ill-natured grumbler so racily pictured by Benjamin Preston, of Bradford; but, like most of the dwellers upon earth, she was a little bit touched with the same complaint. When the rain was over, we came away.
"I'll be danged," piped old Jim, "if I don't start right away and try to git a bench. An ailin' man, like me, can't scrouge, as I used to could." "Go 'long wi' me; I'll jam you through the crowd, or mash you, Jim," offered the backwoodsman. "Fetch out the jug, Sanders, it's my treat. Come up to the counter, neighbors, 'less you mean to insult me. Here, use this dipper, Jim.
"And how's Brother James, and the fammerly?" "They're all well except 'Risty; he's off again, as if my life weren't already pestered out with one child," and Mrs. Morpher glanced significantly at M'liss. "Ah, well, we all of us have our trials," said McSnagley. "I've been ailin' again. That ager must be in my bones still. I've been rather onsettled myself to-day."
Falconer hastened to the bedside, kneeled down, and took his hand speechless. The doctor was silent too, but a smile overspread his countenance, and revealed his inward satisfaction. Robert's heart was full, and he could only gaze on the worn face. At length he was able to speak. 'What for didna ye sen' for me? he said. 'Ye never tellt me ye was ailin'.
I'm ailin' all the time, says he, 'an' if I keep middlin' full, I make out to hold my own an' to keep along o' my work. I pitied Eb. I says to him, 'You ain't goin' to bring no disgrace on us old army boys, be you, Eb? an' he says no, he wan't. I think if he'd lived to get one o' them big fat pensions, he'd had it easier.
She ain't ashamed to keep the house clean, and help mother, either. It's always May-time 'bout the old place when she's here, Stone. She's tender-hearted as a lamb, and'll nuss a chicken with the gapes for half a day. But the horse don't run on this farm that she's afraid to ride. And when me or mother are ailin', she'll sit by us night and day says she's 'fraid to trust a nigger with medicine.
Wilson followed, and the others appeared drawn irresistibly. "Hey thar kid!" called Anson, hoarsely. The girl drew her slight form up haughtily. Through her spreading tresses her eyes gleamed unnaturally upon the outlaw leader. But she deigned not to reply. "Hey thar you Rayner girl!" added Anson, lamely. "What's ailin' you?" "My lord! did you address me?" she asked, loftily.
Dr. Eaton rose to go and Miss Drusilla looked up at him as he stood straight and strong before her. She smiled, with the merry little wrinkles playing around the corners of her mouth. "I believe I'm rather ailin' myself, and will need to have a family doctor. You might look in every once in a while and see if my health is good."
I am particularly sorry for his poor old mother, who has suffered a great deal, both mentally and physically, on his account." "Ay, that's the warst o' it," said the skipper. "It wass the sicht o' the poor wumin ailin' in body an' broken heartit that first set me at Ivor." "But how comes it, Captain, that you plead so earnestly for total abstinence?" asked Jackman with a smile.
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