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Updated: June 15, 2025
'C. P. Barkis, he cried faintly. 'No better woman anywhere! 'Look! Here's Master Davy! said Peggotty. For he now opened his eyes. I was on the point of asking him if he knew me, when he tried to stretch out his arm, and said to me, distinctly, with a pleasant smile: 'Barkis is willin'! And, it being low water, he went out with the tide.
On the other hand, something is due to the young ladies in the case, and as much for their sake as for any other reason have I set upon paper this narrative of the man's ingratitude, simply telling the story and drawing no conclusions whatever. Barkis was not endowed with much in the way of worldly possessions.
Later I have held him on my knee and told him stories of an elevating nature mostly of my own composition and have afterwards put these down upon paper and sold them to syndicates at great profit. So that, in a sense, I am beholden to Barkis for some measure of my prosperity.
He sat in his usual place and attitude like a great stuffed figure. But when she began to look about her, and to speak to me, he nodded his head and grinned several times. I have not the least notion at whom, or what he meant by it. 'It's a beautiful day, Mr. Barkis! I said, as an act of politeness. 'It ain't bad, said Mr. Barkis, who generally qualified his speech, and rarely committed himself.
'I know you will! And she kissed me beforehand, in grateful acknowledgement of my hospitality. After that, she covered her head up with her apron again and had another laugh about Mr. Barkis. After that, she took the baby out of its little cradle, and nursed it.
Then, when Barkis grew older, I taught him the most approved methods of burning his fingers on the Fourth of July, and when he went to college I am convinced that he gained material aid from me in that I loaned him my college scrap-books, which contained, among other things, a large number of examination papers which I marvel greatly to-day that I was ever able successfully to pass, and which gave to him some hint as to the ordeal he was about to go through.
And nothing's truer than them. Mr. Barkis turned his eyes upon me, as if for my assent to this result of his reflections in bed; and I gave it. 'Nothing's truer than them, repeated Mr. Barkis; 'a man as poor as I am, finds that out in his mind when he's laid up. I'm a very poor man, sir! 'I am sorry to hear it, Mr. Barkis. 'A very poor man, indeed I am, said Mr. Barkis.
You made it all right, first. It's all right. In his attempts to be particularly lucid, Mr. Barkis was so extremely mysterious, that I might have stood looking in his face for an hour, and most assuredly should have got as much information out of it as out of the face of a clock that had stopped, but for Peggotty's calling me away.
'I have got a trifle of money somewhere about me, my dear, said Mr. Barkis, 'but I'm a little tired. If you and Mr. David will leave me for a short nap, I'll try and find it when I wake. We left the room, in compliance with this request. When we got outside the door, Peggotty informed me that Mr.
There are so many ways, too, in which one may help a boy without impairing his self-reliance that on the whole it was not very difficult to assist Barkis.
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