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"Where they laid him as wos wery good to me, wery good to me indeed, he wos. It's time fur me to go down to that there berryin ground, sir, and ask to be put along with him. I wants to go there and be berried. He used fur to say to me, 'I am as poor as you to- day, Jo, he ses. I wants to tell him that I am as poor as him now and have come there to be laid along with him." "By and by, Jo.
"They did catch the noo complaint the doctor do spaik of bronkeetis I think it is and although I did tie 'em up wi' flannel round their necks, an' water-gruel, besides 'ot bottles to their feet, they're all gone dead. I mean to have 'em buried on Monday. Will 'ee come to the berryin, Billy?"
She's come to get me to go along with her to the berryin ground. I won't go to the berryin ground. I don't like the name on it. She might go a-berryin ME." His shivering came on again, and as he leaned against the wall, he shook the hovel. "He has been talking off and on about such like all day, ma'am," said Jenny softly. "Why, how you stare! This is MY lady, Jo."
If you wath to thee our Children in the Wood, with their father and mother both a dyin' on a horthe their uncle a retheiving of 'em ath hith wardth, upon a horthe themthelvth both a goin' a black- berryin' on a horthe and the Robinth a coming in to cover 'em with leavth, upon a horthe you'd thay it wath the completetht thing ath ever you thet your eyeth on!
It takes him a long time to say this, and few but an experienced and attentive listener could hear, or, hearing, understand him. After a short relapse into sleep or stupor, he makes, of a sudden, a strong effort to get out of bed. "Stay, Jo! What now?" "It's time for me to go to that there berryin ground, sir," he returns with a wild look. "Lie down, and tell me. What burying ground, Jo?"
He patiently awaits an explicit answer; and Jo, more baffled by his patience than by anything else, at last desperately whispers a name in his ear. "Aye!" says Allan. "Why, what had you been doing?" "Nothink, sir. Never done nothink to get myself into no trouble, 'sept in not moving on and the inkwhich. But I'm a-moving on now. I'm a-moving on to the berryin ground that's the move as I'm up to."
Over in them Mashpaug woods, where you hail from, money kind of grows on the bushes, like huckleberries, I presume likely. Martha Phipps been over there berryin', has she?" "No, she ain't. Besides, I never said Miss Martha brought the money into the house. All's I said was that 'twas in there and I see it with my own eyes." "Sho! With your own eyes, eh? Well, well!
I can't git a apron or a sun-bunnet on him in churnin' time or berryin' in dog-days he is sot. But I sez, "Josiah, I spoke in metafor." And he sez, "I would ruther you would use pantaloons and vests, if you are a-goin' to allegore about me." But to resoom. France, England, Germany, all have wonderful exhibits, and as for our own country, there wuz no end seemin'ly to the marvellous sight.
Good neet, Mary; it's like ye'll be a' thrang eneuf to-morrow wi' the feast for the berryin', and it's like eneuf ma mistress and laal Liza will be ower at the windin'." The dame sighed audibly. "And keep up a blithe heart, Mary. Remember, he that has gude crops may thole some thistles." When the door had closed behind the weaver, Willy came back to the kitchen from his little room.
"'That, indeed, is the name that's on me, said Matthew; 'and what might you be wantin' of me? "'I've sorrowful news for you, Mat, said the stranger. 'Your sister Rose, that married my poor cousin Tim Mulloy, beyant the mountains, is dead, and I'm sint to bid ye to the berryin' to-morrow.
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