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"No, I forgot I hadna got yin," replied Mysie. "I wonder where I'll hae to gang to get yin. Hoo much will it be, think you?" "Oh, I dinna ken," said the boy. "Come alang here to the bookin' office, an' ask a ticket for the place you want to gang to, an' the clerk will soon tell you the price o't."
"'Ere ye are, sir," announced the porter, not waiting for the chauffeur to pull open the door. "I most amissed ye," he rattled on. "Kotched the keb, sir, an' tucked yer boxes inside, then I looked for ye at the bookin' office, 'cording to directions. Let me tuck this 'ere laprobe over ye." As the stranger stepped into the limousine and seated himself the porter clambered in after him.
"An' they didn't have no bookin' ahead. Florette come an' talked to me again, an' she says again she wanted Freddy to be happy, an' git a better start'n she'd had an' all. 'An, Bert, she says, 'if anything ev' happens to me, you go an' give 'um the money for Freddy, she says." "Poor thing! Perhaps she had a premonition of her death," murmured Miss Nellie. Bert gave her a queer look.
When when's she comin' to tell me goo'-by?" "Why why look-a-here. Brace up, ole man. She had to leave a'ready." "She's gone?" "Say, you don' think bookin' like that can wait, do you? It was take it or leave it quick. You didn't wan' her to throw away a chancet like that, huh, Freddy? Huh?" Freddy's head sank on his chest. His hands fell limp. "A' right," he murmured without looking up.
Up went both our guns at once, and I believe we were very near puttin' a bullet in each of his eyes, when we noticed that these same eyes were not bookin' at us, but starin', most awful earnest like, up a gully in the mountains; so we looked up, an', sure enough, there we saw a deer on the mountain-top, tossin' its head and snuffin' round to see that the coast was clear before it came down to the water.
Some ac's is booked out through the circuit from N' Yawk; others is booked up by some li'l fly-by-night agent, gettin' a date here an' a date there, terrible jumps between stands, see? and nev' knowin' one week where you're goin' the nex', or whether at all. Well, Florette was gettin' her bookin' that way. An' on that you gotta make good with each house you play, get me?
He was hurrying away, but his companion caught his arm. "Heave to, John!" he ordered. "I've got a horse and a buggy here myself, such as they are, and unless you're dead sot on bookin' passage in Winnie S.'s what did you call it? bust I'd be mighty glad to have you make the trip along with me. No, no. 'Twon't be any trouble. Come on!"
They have to keep hollerin' out loud how good they are so He'll hear and won't make any mistake in bookin' their own particular passage. Sort of takin' out a religious insurance policy, you might say 'twas. . . . Humph!" he added, coming out of his reverie and looking doubtfully at his companion, "I I hope I ain't shocked you, ma'am. I don't mean to be irreverent, you understand.
'I could take in sewing and help some, said Elizabeth Brower, as she sipped her tea. There was a little quiver in David's under lip as he looked over at her. 'You ain't able t' do hard work any more, mother, said he. 'She won't never hev to nuther, said Uncle Eb. 'Don't never pay if go bookin' fer trouble it stew easy if find.
An' to think as he might ha' Mary Burge, an' be took partners, an' be a big man wi' workmen under him, like Mester Burge Dolly's told me so o'er and o'er again if it warna as he's set's heart on that bit of a wench, as is o' no more use nor the gillyflower on the wall. An' he so wise at bookin' an' figurin', an' not to know no better nor that!"
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