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You'mind me of an old man that used to live in the place where I was raised. He never borrered any trouble, but when things was contrary, he waited for 'em to take a turn. When he saw a neighbor frettin', he used to say, 'Fret not thy gizzard, for it won't do no good." Ben laughed. "That was good advice," he said. "I don't know where he got them words from. Maybe they're in the Bible."
"It jest shooted itself!" said Pomp, in whom the old lady's words inspired a vague feeling of alarm. "I 'clare to gracious, Mass' Morton, it did!" "Didn't you have the gun in your hand, Pomp? Where did you get it?" "I jest borrered it of Mass' Frank, to play sojer a little while," said Pomp reluctantly. "Does he know that you have got it?"
Ole folks hadn't orter try to be young uns. I've telled yer so, Clo, fifty times," shrieked the yellow maiden; "'tain't no wonder yer snickered, Dolf; borrered feathers! he, he! Vic!" Clorinda sprang to her feet with a yell of triumph and rage, and limping toward Victoria, caught that yellow maiden by her much-prized tresses, and for a few moments the battle between the rivals raged furiously.
Joe promised her agin, and 'e went off and borrered a clock from Albert Price, and at twelve o'clock that night he jumped up out of bed and began to dress 'imself and pretend not to 'ear his wife when she asked 'im where he was going. It was a dark, nasty sort o' night, blowing and raining, and, o' course, everybody 'ad gone to bed long since.
Joe promised her agin, and 'e went off and borrered a clock from Albert Price, and at twelve o'clock that night he jumped up out of bed and began to dress 'imself and pretend not to 'ear his wife when she asked 'im where he was going. It was a dark, nasty sort o' night, blowing and raining, and, o' course, everybody 'ad gone to bed long since.
What do you cal'late 'twould have looked like if you'd borrered somebody else's eyes? Say, Posy, was it you fetched the billion and a half, or whatever 'twas, into the house?" "Me? ME with all that money? My savin' soul!" "Well, who did fetch it? Santy Claus?" "I sha'n't tell you. I promised Miss Martha I wouldn't tell one word about that money and I ain't goin' to." "Hooray, Posy!
"Not if you'd borrered it, Mr. 'Opeless. She belongs to a Mr. Mills o' Melborough Na-ow! Melchard o' Millsborough. 'E's one o' them there painful dentisters." A sound like a smothered sneeze, followed by a syncopated gurgle, coming from behind him, warned Dick to tone down the comic relief.
"I'm beginning to suspict that he didn't intind to give back that money he borrered that is, if he should iver lay hands on the same." Jeff looked pityingly at his friend; but reading in the expression of his face that he was jesting, he made no response. Instead, he spoke impressively: "You never would have lost that money if you hadn't been in liquor."
If people do you a kindness it's generally because they want to get something out of you; same as a man once a perfick stranger wot stood me eight 'arf-pints becos I reminded 'im of his dead brother, and then borrered five bob off of me.
Dat mus' be de church, Berry. Den I members 'bout de Ku Kluckers, an' I sez ter myself agin, sez I, 'Berry, dem rascals hez come ter Red Wing an' is raisin' de debble dar now, jes dere own way. Den I runs de mule and de carryall inter de woods, 'bout a mile down de road, an' I takes out Bre'er 'Liab's gun, dat I'd borrered fer company, yer know, an' hed got some cattridges fer, ober at Lewyburg, an' I comes on ter take a han' in ef dar wa'n't no danger, yer know, honey.
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