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Updated: June 3, 2025
Since she was under the impression that her cabin might soon become again the refuge of one or the other of the contending powers, possibly of Miss Lou herself, she left the door ajar and was on the alert. "Hi dar! granny," cried Chunk, the first to appear, "dat's right. Now you kin smoke in peace, fer you own yosef. Nobody come bossin' you yere any mo'."
Oi 'm jist bossin' me gang durin' workin' hours, an' slapin' the rist o' the toime in the bunk-house. Oi 'm dommed if Oi care who owns the rock." The two men sat in silence. Burke indifferently chewing on his quid. Winston shifted the revolver into his left hand, and began slowly tracing lines, and marking distances, on the back of an old envelope.
I will git me away from wimmen, and when I'm on the lot with the timber before me, my mind will work clear." Sez I, "Do hear to me now; do git a good builder to lay out the plan, one that knows how." "Well, I shan't do no such thing!" Sez I, "Then do git a first rate carpenter!" "No, Samantha, I shan't git any man to be bossin' me round.
Maybe, again, he was afraid of women, an' didn't want 'em bossin' around his work. I didn't know an' didn't care. It was no concern of mine. I only knew he was mighty good to me in my affliction the truest, steadiest, most unselfish friend a forlorn woman could have; an' every night I prayed for that same neighbor King, askin' the Lord to bless him for the goodness an' kindness he had shown to me.
"Why did ye make ten stitches in going round that hole; ye could just as easy have done it in four," and Si sniffed as he pointed to great, ungainly stitches an inch long. "I call that waste labour." "Now see here," blurted Sam, "if you don't like our work let's see you do it better. There's lots to do yet." "Where?" "Oh, ask Yan. He's bossin' the job. Old Caleb wouldn't let me in.
They are! I bet you there's more than one girl standing high in the graduating class to-day who never would have stuck out her first year's bossin' and slops and worry and death if she'd had to stick it out in the unimportant looking clothes she came from home in!
My father lived till I was eleven, and I thought since I was the oldest boy I could take his place of bossin', but my mother would take me down a button hole lower whenever I got too high. "Before my papa died we had a good livin'. We lived with his mistress's daughter, and we thought we lived in heaven. My papa made all of the shoes and raised all of the cattle from which he got the hide.
Boys, I did hone fer my dog Fiddler, an' the times we'd have a-huntin', and the trout-fishin', an' the smell o' the woods, and nobody bossin' and jowerin' at all. I'm a hill-billy, all right, and they needn't to glory their old flat lands to me!" Domestic affection is seldom expressed by the mountaineers not even by motherly or sisterly kisses but it is very deep and real for all that.
"I was thinkin'. Humph! What would you do to fix it so's your sister would stop her bossin' and you could have your own way once in a while?" "Do? By time, I'd do anything! Anything, by thunder-mighty!" "You would? You mean it?" "You bet I mean it!" "Would you promise to stay right here and work for Mrs. Thankful as long as she wanted you to?" "Course I would. I ain't anxious to leave.
If the women folks can sit up on their thrones an' give the word for things like that to be done, who's to know what's happening to him this very minute? He's no more safe than nothing! Just let a woman like that get mad, an' no one's safe!" "Well," said Dick, though he looked rather anxious himself; "ye see this 'ere un isn't the one that's bossin' things now.
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