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"What's eatin' you? What'd you skip out from our house for? What'd you mean " He was broken in upon by Maria's voice as she came in at the head of a bevy of other girls: "Si Klegg, ain't you ever comin' out? What's akeepin' you? We're tired waitin' for you, and w're comin' right in. What're you doin' to them ragamuffins that you've bin gatherin' up? Tryin' to patch 'em up into decent-lookin' men?
I heard you was akeepin' house out here, and so I thought I'd come along and see you, and if you hadn't no girl I'd like to live with you again, and I guess you might as well take me, for that other girl said, when she got down from the shed, that she was goin' away to-morrow; she wouldn't stay in no house where they kept such a dog, though I told her I guessed he was only cuttin' 'round because he was so glad to get loose."
That night, as he was lighting his after-supper pipe, the Boarder remarked casually: "I'd like to rent the surplus fer an hour to-morrer, Amarilly." "Why, what on airth can you do with it?" was the astonished query. The Boarder looked sheepish. "You see, Amarilly, I'm akeepin' stiddy company with a little gal." "I seen you and her this arternoon. She's orful purty," said Amarilly reflectively.
"Why, what possible use could he have for a surplice?" "He's akeepin' company with a young gal Lily Rose and she wanted his likeness tooken sorter fancy-like, so he wuz took in the surplus, and he got himself framed in a gilt and shell frame, and she hez it ahangin' over her bed.
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