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And you'll never git no benefit to your own sowl, from Phoebe's boardin' the minister, nather. Take my word for that, Mike." Mike allowed himself a sort of froggy laugh. "There's nobody gets no good out of that, but him," said he; "but you've got it crooked about their not goin' to church. They did go reg'lar at fust, but the gig's at the wheelwright's gettin' new shaf's."
The man turned with a grin. It was the Gunner, naked to the waist, and smoke-grimed. "Sweet mess, ain't it?" he coughed. "How d'ye like your first smell o powder, sir?" "They're boarding!" panted Kit. "Quick!" The man leapt up. "Boardin!" he roared. "Board ME! I'll give em board." He snatched up a chain-shot, and raced down the deck. "Up aloft the lot o you!" he howled. "Heaven waits ye there!"
"I kind of hate to think o' your bangein' here and boardin' there, and one old woman mendin', and the other settin' ye down to meals that like's not don't agree with ye." "Lor', now, Mis' Tobin, le's not fuss round no longer," said Mr. Briley impatiently. "You know you covet me same 's I do you." "I don't nuther. Don't you go an' say fo'lish things you can't stand to."
"Looks like you ain't just so awful pleased to have me boardin' with Pap," Shade began truculently, when it appeared that the girl was not going to open any conversation with him. "Maybe you wasn't a-carin' for my company down street this evenin'." "No," said Johnnie, bluntly but very quietly. "I wish you hadn't come to the house to board. I have told you to let me alone."
The neighbor answered in a creak meant for a whisper: "I'm right glad she's took to religion for onct, an' is givin' us somethin' about them Crusaders. They was in Palestine, you know. She's been away to boardin' school all winter, an' I guess it'll be a high-falutin' account of the war." The quaint little old lady jerked her head up and down with decisive bobbiness.
"You see't won't be so tough for me as if I hadn't always felt it lurking within me to go off some day or 'nother an' see how other folks did things. I do' know but what the Winn gals have laid up somethin' sufficient for us to take a house, with the little mite I've got by me. I might keep house for us all, 'stead o' boardin' round in other folks' houses.
"This this Miss er What's-her-name's school you're talkin' about," he asked, "a reg'lar boardin' school, is it?" "Yes, but there are day pupils. It was my idea, provided you two were willing to listen to my suggestion at all, to suggest that Mary attend as a day pupil. She might live near the school instead of at it. That would be much less expensive."
Not to speak o' boardin' the editor, I've supplied most o' the brains as run it. You know as I never am much of a talker, but I did try to keep Elijah posted as to how things was goin' on an' the feelin' as no matter what I said, it was him an' not me as would be blamed if there was trouble, always kept up my courage.
Well, there was another chap a settin by the fire, and he DID look as if he saw it and felt it too, he did'nt seem over half pleased, you may depend. He was the District Schoolmaster, and he told me he was takin a spell at boardin there, for it was their turn to keep him. Thinks I to myself poor devil, you've brought your pigs to a pretty market, that's a fact.
Its paw's in the pen, an' its maw's up fer ninety days, an' its jes' boardin' at his house." "The case that was reported for the Home," said Mrs. Ivy, turning with a significant nod to her companion who had just come up. At the word "home" Chick shuddered. It was the most terrible word in the English language to him. "What's the matter with your thumb, old fellow?"
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