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"A Snake's tongue is its sting. You put your foot on a Snake and see how he tries to sting you. An' his tail don't die till sundown. I seen that myself, onct, an' Granny says so, too, an' what Granny don't know ain't knowledge it's only book-larnin'."
And as for an 'evil eye, troth ye're but makin' game of my want of book-larnin'. But well I know there's no such thing; and if there was, it could never harm ye or yer work if ye were doin' right. So now be off with ye to the store, and bring me five pounds of sugar, quick as ye can.
I ha'n't no book-larnin to speak of, and some things is hard to say when a man ha'n't got book-words to say 'em with. And they's some things a man can't hardly ever say anyhow to anybody." Here Bud stopped. But Ralph spoke in such a matter-of-course way in reply that he felt encouraged to go on. "You gin up Hanner kase you thought she belonged to me. That's more'n I'd a done by a long shot.
It seemed probable that they had known better days, for the head of the household was notoriously useless in the eyes of his neighbors, and was believed to get his living through "writin' or book-larnin'," but he was so quiet and gentle that they never upbraided him, and would sometimes, after making a call, wander into his garden and casually weed it for him for an hour or so.
He thought himself not dressed well enough He wished his shoulders were not so square, and his arms not so stout. He wished that he had book-larnin' enough to court in nice, big words.
"What I found had red specks sewed in the border, and this seems jest like it; but I don't sware to no dentical 'cause I means to be kereful; and I will stand to the aidge of my oath; but Mars Alfred don't shove me over it." "Can't you read?" "No, sir; I never hankered after book-larnin' tomfoolery, and other freedom frauds." "You know your A B C's?" "No more 'n a blind mule."
"No," said I. "Shear a sheep?" "No," said I. "Guide a plough?" "No," said I. "Shoe a 'oss?" "No," said I. "Then ye can't work Lord love me, wheer 'ave 'e been?" "At a university," said I. "Where, master?" "At a place warranted to turn one out a highly educated incompetent," I explained. "Why, I don't hold wi' eddication nor book-larnin', myself, master.
It seemed probable that they had known better days, for the head of the household was notoriously useless in the eyes of his neighbors, and was believed to get his living through "writin' or book-larnin'," but he was so quiet and gentle that they never upbraided him, and would sometimes, after making a call, wander into his garden and casually weed it for him for an hour or so.
"Say, Cap, you've been ter collidge 'n' got filled up with book-larnin'; p'raps ye kin tell me what kind o' bug this is. I'm jest a little bit curious to know." And Si pointed to the object of his inquiry that was leisurely creeping toward a hole in the elbow of his outer garment.
"Thrue for you," says Terence, "but how the divil did you come to the knowledge iv my father's sowl," says he, "bein' in the owld gandher," says he. "If I tould you," says Jer, "you would not undherstand me," says he, "without book-larnin' an' gasthronomy," says he; "so ax me no questions," says he, "an' I'll tell you no lies.
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