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I never found Lucinda amusin’, Lord knows, but I like to see Granite do her. An’ we play cards, an’ she dances, an’—" "Aunt Mary," said Jack abruptly, "do you know the people who had Janice want her back again?" "I didn’t quite catch that," said his aunt, "but you needn’t bother to repeat it because I ain’t never goin’ to let her go. Not never."
One day I found him with his bran-tub bottom upwards, amusin' himself tryin' to stand with all four legs on it at once. And he'll clear marm's clothes-line at a leap as easy as you'd jump over a pair of bars. But I never happened to catch him practisin' his dancin'-lesson must have done it, though, on the sly, or he couldn't have footed it so lively that day over to Centerville.
The graveyard is full of unselfish, devoted fathers an' husbands who worked themselves to death for the comfort an' support of their own families, yet spendin' their days on earth tryin' to beat their neighbors in the same game. "It's funny how we're livin'. It's amusin', it is our ethics of Christianity. We've baptised everything but business. We give to the church an' rob the poor.
"He eats fish, but he ain't no manner of fish himself, mother, no more than you nor I be!" explained Captain Ephraim, with a grin. "An' he won't be in your way a mite, for he'll live out in the yard, an' I'll sink the half of a molasses hogshead out there an' fill it with salt water for him to play in. He's an amusin' little beggar, an' gentle as a kitten."
'The minute I hit camp, says I. ''Twas marked on the bag of potatoes and onions. 'They're always together, says she, soft like 'always together in life. 'They go well together, I says, 'in a stew. 'I mean hearts and crosses, says Santa. 'Our sign to love and to suffer that's what they mean. "And there was old Doc Musgrove amusin' himself with whisky and a palm-leaf fan.
He sure has no time for amusin' the ladies." "I imagine that is our loss," said Edith Wayne, in her earnest way. "I admire him." "Stillwell, you need not be so distressed with what is only gallantry in the boys, even if it does make a temporary confusion in the work," said Madeline.
Will Osten asked permission to go, and Griffin granted his request with a grin that was the reverse of amiable. "Musha! what sort o' bodies did the capting main?" said Larry, when they had pulled beyond earshot of the ship. "Ha, paddy," replied one of the men, "they're pleasant fat bodies amusin' to catch and much thought of by aldermen; turtles no less." "Ah! then, it's jokin' ye are."
Lawyer Wilson lives so far away, he can't keep any watch o' Mark, an' Mis' Wilson's so cityfied an' purse-proud nobody ever goes to her with any news, bad or good; so them that's the most concerned is as blind as bats. Mark's consid'able stiddier'n he used to be, but you needn't tell me he has any notion of bringin' one o' that Baxter tribe into his family. He's only amusin' himself."
While he's an old bushman he's all right an' amusin' an' good company; but when he's Brassington he's mad Don't you ever let on to my old woman that I told you. I allers let my tongue run a bit when I get out of that hole we're living in. We've kept the secret all these years, but what does it matter now? I ask you." "It doesn't matter much," I said.
I want to see how long it'll take to git all over the village that he didn't ask no odds o' nobody. Hadn't ben out o' a job three days 'fore the' was a lot o' chances, an' all 't he had to do was to take his pick out o' the lot on 'em." "Really?" said John. "Yes, sir," said David. "Some folks is gaited that way. Amusin', ain't it? Hullo, Dick! Wa'al?"
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