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Smash away, old bait!" he continued, apostrophising with great exultation and self-admiration the river whose terrors he had thus so successfully defied; "ar'n't I the gentleman for you? Roar as much as you please; when it comes to fighting for anngelliferous madam, I can lick you, old Salt, 'tarnal death to me!
"I thought we should get one on every hook," said Tom. "Ar'n't we going to catch any more?" "Why, you've got two," said Dave. "Well, what are two, Dave?" cried Dick. "More'n I've got many a day," said the man. "I often think I'd like a pike to stuff and bake; but lots o' times I come and I never get one. There's one for you yonder." "Is there where?" cried Tom.
"Nay, I'm sure I can't tell; only I can see fine that thou ar'n't same as thou was yesterday." They were just entering the park, and Elizabeth stood musing while Martha closed the gates. Then, after walking a few yards, she said, "Martha, do you believe the dead can speak to the living?" "Ay, I do. If t' living will hear, t' dead will speak.
I pulls them in, and takes them to Will Heaviside, who appears to be mightily pleased, and gives me the money. `I wouldn't have lost them for ten, no, not fur twenty pounds, says he. `At all events you've paid me more than they are worth, says I. `Have I? says he; `stop a bit; and he outs with his knife, and rips open the waistband, and pulls out a piece of linen, and out of the piece of linen he pulls out a child's caul. `There, says he, `now you knows why the trowsers wouldn't sink, and I'll leave you to judge whether they ar'n't worth five shillings. That's my story."
"Ar'n't you ever going to speak again? I have heard you only once." "I rarely make set speeches, although I not infrequently engage in debate when some measure comes up that needs airing." "You ought to speak oftener, North," said Senator Shattuc. "You always wake us up." "You have no business to go to sleep. If I talked when I had nothing to say, you'd soon cease to be waked up.
"They take a day off and call on each other. One or two is Senators' wives. Some of the Senators is rich, but some ar'n't. Mis' Montgomery's jest as nice to them as to the swells, and she told me to be sure and go into the next room and have a cup of tea.
"And you, Deerslayer," she at length succeeded in saying "are you, indeed, altogether unhurt? It seems almost miraculous that a pistol should have burst in your hand, and you escape without the loss of a limb, if not of life!" "Such wonders ar'n't oncommon, at all, among worn out arms.
Words did not readily occur to John, but he made the best answer that was possible under the circumstances. Throwing out his arm he drew Jinny's face down to his and kissed it. "Now do you believe I'm 'appy," he said. "Well, if you ar'n't you ought to be," said Jinny coquettishly. "Did you see that cocklin' wench, Jack?" "Her as went by just now?" inquired John indifferently.
"Vy, now, Mr Simple," said the woman, "ar'n't you a nice lady's man, to go for to ax me to muddle my way through all the dead dogs, cabbage-stalks, and stinking hakes' heads, with my bran new shoes and clean stockings?" I looked at her, and sure enough she was, as they say in France, bien chaussee. "Come, Mr Simple, let him out to come for his clothes, and you'll see that he's back in a moment."
"Good-evening," said the old man; and then, looking at me, "How's this?" said he, "you ar'n't, sure, the child I met in the morning?" "Yes," said I, "I am; what makes you doubt it?" "Why, you were then all froth and conceit," said the old man, "and now you take off your cap to me." "I beg your pardon," said I, "if I was frothy and conceited; it ill becomes a child like me to be so."
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