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Updated: June 10, 2025
Hines, vaingloriously. He was, indeed, inwardly and outwardly bursting with pride. "I thought they tuk me for a plumb fool," he kept saying over and over to himself. "They ain't never noticed me before 'cepn to make fun of me; an' all at oncet Mr. Tobe Cullum an' Mr. Newt Pinson ups an' asts me to go on a snipe-hunt, an' even p'oposes to give me the best place in it. An' I've got Mr.
But I shore aims to be at the tabernickle to-night, Aunt Dilsey I means, Sist' Dilsey. You jes' watch me. Tha's all I asts of you now jes' watch me!" Head down and shoulders hunched, in the manner of one harkening to inner voices, Jeff betook himself around the corner of the back porch. Once out of her sight, though, he flung from him his mien of absorption.
"Wal, Leony Rogers she 't was cousin to Tryphosy she was called the harndsomest gal in them parts, 'nd I had considerable hopes. So 't when she asts me, 'Neow what 'll ye have for tea, Leezur? 'They ain't nothin' I likes so well, says I, ''s a mess o' codfish mixed up along o' eggs and thickenin'.
"Danny," she says, looking like she is going to cry, "don't l-l-look at me l-l-like that. If you knew ALL you wouldn't blame me. You " "Wouldn't blame you fur what?" I asts her. "I know it's wrong of me," she says, begging-like. "Mebby it is and mebby it ain't," I says. "But what is it?" "But you never wrote to me," she says.
But it is." "Let me see it," says I. "Indeed!" She looks me square in the face. "Don't tell me a word, sis," says I. "I'm not so hard as you think." "He's coming over tonight," says Bonnie Bell to me after a time. "That's to get his answer?" asts I; and she nodded then.
Whilst I was laying sick he had been sick also, only his'n lasted much longer. But he tells me he has jest struck an idea fur a big scheme. No little schemes go fur him any more, he says. He wants money. Real money. "How you going to get it?" I asts him. "Come along and I'll tell you," he says. "We'll take a walk, and I'll show you how I got my idea."
He slipped another big slug of whiskey into him, and purty soon he asts me: "Do you know what's the matter with me?" I asts him what. "I'm too decent to be a crook," he says, "and too crooked to be decent. You've got to be one thing or the other steady to make it pay." Then he says: "Did you ever hear of the descent to Avernus, Danny?"
I tells him being a medical Injun and mixed up with a show like his'n would suit me down to the ground, and asts him what is the main duties of one besides the blankets and the feathers. "Well," he says, "this camping-out scheme of mine will take a couple of Indians. Instead of paying hotel and feed bills we'll pitch our tent," he says, "at the edge of town in each sweet Auburn of the plains.
"But, Looey," he says, "I'm done with country hotels from now on. They've got the last cent they ever will from me at least in the summer time." "How you going to work it?" Looey asts him, like he hasn't no hopes it will work right. "Camp out," says the doctor. "I've been thinking it all over." Then he turns to me. "Rube," he says, "where are you going?"
He finds the nurse looking awful funny, and bending over the dead kid. She is putting a looking-glass to its lips. He asts her why. She says she thought she might be mistaken after all. She couldn't say jest WHEN it died. It was alive and feeble, and then purty soon it showed no signs of life. It was like it hadn't had enough strength to stay and had jest went.
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