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To-morrer de same, nex' day de same " "Lawd, ef dat ain't de beatenest!" cried Mrs. Morton delightedly. "Well, honey, I thank you long as I live, 'cause I nevah'd a wuk dat out by myself an de livin' worl', an' I sho does needs de money. I'm goin' do exackly dass de way you say.
The postmaster's wife can get the addresses without tearin' off the covers, and after I get 'em read she can borrow mine, and not be always makin' the people at the Ridge so mad that she's runnin' the risk of losin' her job. If you ain't the beatenest!" Basking in the unaccustomed warmth of his mother's approval, Roger finished his supper in peace.
Wrinkle have high old times. Even if I went to board somers else I'd come here an' set of an evenin' to hear him talk. He drives off every spell of blues I have. He is the beatenest man to get off jokes I ever knowed, to be as old as he is. Wrinkle p'inted to Pitman's own cow an' said, 'I wasn't lyin' to you, Sam; thar she is. He was laughin' just now an' said he had a joke in store for Mr.
Here I am, up here on top of this cabin," replied Bob, slapping the shingles with his open hand to show the negro where he was. "Wal, if dat ain't de beatenest thing!" exclaimed Sam. "What you two gemmen doin' up dar?" "O, we were coming through here last night, taking a short cut through the fields, you know, and the dogs discovered us and drove us up here."
Well, about an hour after dark we come along down in our trading-scow, and it was so dark we didn't notice the wreck till we was right on it; and so WE saddle-baggsed; but all of us was saved but Bill Whipple and oh, he WAS the best cretur ! I most wish 't it had been me, I do." "My George! It's the beatenest thing I ever struck. And THEN what did you all do?"
Then he turns around, blubbering, and makes a lot of idiotic signs to the duke on his hands, and blamed if he didn't drop a carpet-bag and bust out a-crying. If they warn't the beatenest lot, them two frauds, that ever I struck.
Is this the kitchen? Well if I ever saw sech a cool, white place to cook in before! Ain't David the beatenest hand to think up things? He got the start of that takin' keer of his ma all his life. He sort of learned what a woman uses, and how it's handiest. Not that other men don't know; it's jest that they are too mortal selfish and keerless to fix things. Well this is great!
Folks didn't call their preachers Tom, Dick, and Harry, and Jim and Sam, like they do now. But things is different, as I said awhile ago, and even the little boys says 'Sam Joynes, jest like he played marbles with 'em every day. I went to the Tabernicle three or four times; and of all the preachers that ever I heard, he certainly is the beatenest.
He told Louise before night: "I tell you what, Abe's got the best of it! If I'd knowed I was goin' to be picked to pieces by a lot of busybodies the way I be, I'd never agreed to stay by the ship till Abe got back. No, sir! These folks around here are the beatenest I ever see." Yet Louise noticed that he seemed able to hold his own with the curious ones.
"But what a cheek he has to ask you to go on such a journey!" cried Mark. "He talks as though he expected you to start immediately for the Arctic Circle." "There would be good hunting up there in the mountains," said Andy Sudds, succinctly. "I wouldn't mind that." "An'disher chrysomela-bypunktater plant he wants," grunted Washington. "Hi, yi! ain't dat de beatenest thing?
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