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I bet the old gentleman will be all right now, for the sight of her face is bettern' all the medicine in all the poth'cary consarns in St John." What a temptation presented itself to the young man. He could easily ask the honest-hearted fellow about his interview with Mr. Verne, and of the effect upon him; also the nature of the conversation.
"Well, I I mars Clay, when a man is under de influence ob de sperit, he do-no, what he's 'bout no sah; dat man do-no what he's 'bout. You mout take an' tah de head off'n dat man an' he wouldn't scasely fine it out. "I don't know but what they were girls. I think they were." "Now mars Clay, you knows bettern dat.
"Now ef you wanted to keep in wid Marster Carr don' drap you shoes in de field an' leave 'em he'd beat you; you mus' tote you' shoes frum one field to de tother, didn' a dog ud be bettern you. He'd say 'You gun-haided devil, drappin' you' shoes and eve'thin' over de field'."
"Well, I I mars Clay, when a man is under de influence ob de sperit, he do-no, what he's 'bout no sah; dat man do-no what he's 'bout. You mout take an' tah de head off'n dat man an' he wouldn't scasely fine it out. "I don't know but what they were girls. I think they were." "Now mars Clay, you knows bettern dat.
You put a broom acrosst your door at night an old witches gotta count ever straw in dat broom fore she can come in. "Some folks can jes nachly see hants bettern others. Teeny, my gal can. I reckon das cause she been borned wid a veil you know, a caul, sumpum what be over some babies' faces when dey is borned. Folks borned wid a caul can see sperrits, an tell whas gonna happen fore it comes true.
They look out every nite and say oh ant the moon lovely. Thir is one thing I have not told and that is they al-ways now their lessons bettern boys. From Mr. Edward Channing's recent article in SCIENCE: The marked difference between the books now being produced by French, English, and American travelers, on the one hand, and German explorers, on the other, is too great to escape attention.
I've naught to say against modern languages: but when I see it on the newspaper nowadays that naval officers ought to give what's called "increased attention" to French and German, I hope that they'll use it bettern than Bligh, that's all!
"My boy Jesse book-kept for the camp." "I disgust bad liquor." "This poke salat eats good." "We can muscle this log up." "I wouldn't pleasure them enough to say it." "Josh ain't much on sweet-heartin'." "I don't confidence them dogs much." "The creek away up thar turkey-tails out into numerous leetle forks." A verb will be coined from an adverb: "We better git some wood, bettern we?"
And you said, 'Now Mother you lie right still on that sofa and let me do it! I can! And you could! you did! They were bettern' mine that first time and your Father praised 'em and you've been at it ever since." "Yes," said Diantha, with a deeper note of feeling than her mother caught, "I've been at it ever since!" "Except when you were teaching school," pursued her mother.
You know God's side of it bettern' I do, but we're all for the sinner, and I can't bear to see him so quiet and mild. It's just like havin' a corpse in the house to see him there in front of the dead fire; I wouldn't wonder if the morning light will find him cold and stiff in death." Rosie's tears gushed forth anew at this sad picture.
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