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Updated: June 21, 2025
"'I reecounts that exploit with pleasure, says, the Major, bowin' p'lite as Noo Orleans first circles an' touchin' his hat to Nell. 'It's one day when we're in a fight. The line of battle is mebby stretched out half a mile. As I su'gests, I'm spraddlin' 'round permiscus with no stated arena of effort, carryin' despatches an' turnin' in at anything that offers, as handy as I can.
Sais he, 'How would you like to take charge of my almighty everlastin' property? "'Delighted! says the goney. "'Well, said Mr Astor, 'I am tired to death looking after it; if you will relieve me and do my work, I'll give you what I get out of it myself. "'Done! said the man, takin' off his hat, and bowin' down to the ground.
She's a cute youngster Helma." "She is all I have to live for, Sir," says he, bowin' his head. "Then why take such chances as this?" says I. "Twenty thousand! Say, you know this ain't any jay burg. You can't expect to get away with a wad like that." "I know nothing about the money," says he, stiffenin' up. "They'll have to find it to prove I took it."
That's what it was, though cooin'. Seems to be her specialty, too, for she goes bobbin' and bowin' around the room, makin' noises like a turtle-dove on a top branch. "O-o-o-oh, Mr. Ellins!" says she. "So glad to know you. O-o-o-oh!" And she smiles and ducks her head and beams gushy on everyone in sight. "How long can she keep that up on a stretch?" I asks Vee. "Indefinitely," says Vee.
But we speak it real well, and it's generally allowed we speak English, too, better than the British. 'Oh, says he, 'you one very droll Yankee, dat very good joke, Sare; you talk Indian and call it French. 'But, says I, 'Mister Mount shear; it is French, I vow; real merchantable, without wainy edge or shakes all clear stuff; it will pass survey in any market it's ready stuck and seasoned. 'Oh, very like, says he, bowin' as polite as a black waiter at New OrLEENS, 'very like, only I never heerd it afore; oh, very good French dat CLEAR STUFF, no doubt, but I no understand it's all my fault, I dare say, Sare.
"For two years, Madam," says Don Carlos, bowin' polite. "A dull sort of business, mingling so much with stupid tourists. Bah! And such small gains! By the time you have divided with the soldiers little is left. So I gave it up." "The next came from that queer place," says Lindy, "Port Port " "Port Said," helps out Pasha, "where I had a gambling house. That was good for a time. Rather lively also.
"Good-by, Widder; we'll have to be a-goin'. We've had quite a spell of weather, but it looks some like rain now, and I have a important engagement to-night, and we'll have to be gittin' hum." But I gently withdrawed him, bowin' very low myself and lookin' dretful smilin' at her.
"Well, by this time, a man who had seen her at her first worst an' run for a doctor, he come in with three, an' whilst they were bowin' to each other an' backin', I giv' 'er stimulus an' d'rectly she turned upon me one rememberable gaze, an' she says, 'Doctors, says she, 'would you think they'd have the gall to try to get me to cook for 'em?
"I didn't either, at first," Grandmother admitted, "but I was readin' a piece in the paper about women travellin' alone and it said that 'in order to insure comfort, a tip should be given for every slight service. Them's the very words." "It means bowin', then," returned Matilda. "Bowin' and sayin', 'Thank you." "It's no such thing. Wait till I get the paper."
I want to tell you right here, too, that I am not going to humor that absurd person any more." "Isn't he just as wise as he was when you lured him away from the hotel where I'd put him?" asks Old Hickory sarcastic. "I supposed you had a little sense then yourself, Matthew Ellins," Auntie raps back at him. "You flatter me," says Old Hickory, bowin' stiff and marchin' off huffy.
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