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"But I ax you, as Boss, be this here camp a camp, er a camp-meetin'? Walley Johnson kin go straight to hell; but ef you sez we 'ain't to sing nawthin' but hymns, why, o' course, it's hymns for me till I kin git away to a camp where the hands is men, an' not wet-nurses!" "That's all right, Red!" said the Boss.
She paused at a rose-bush on the way and plucked a bright-red bud, and, bringing it to him, she began to fasten it on the lapel of his coat. "You are getting entirely too slouchy," she mumbled, a pin in her mouth. "You never used to wear such dowdy clothes. You've got to spruce up ain't he, Pa?" "Well, it ain't Sunday, nor camp-meetin'," Wrinkle made answer.
And as Uncle Isaac never except after long absences paid even "Master John" the honor of coming to meet him, Elizabeth wondered who the guest could be. Coming down stairs she met Harriet in her very gayest head-kerchief and her white-embroidered apron, and her best-company manner: "De minister am come, Miss Lizzie de Rev. Mr. Rollins am 'rived; and de camp-meetin' will be 'ranged 'bout now.
"De bes' times I can 'member always come 'roun' de Fourth o' July. Dat was always de beginnin' o' camp-meetin'. Aint nothin' lak dat in dese days. "Ever'body what had any standin' went. Dey cooked up whole trunks full o' good things t'eat an' driv' over to de camp groun's. De preacher had a big pavilion covered wid sweet-gum branches an' carpeted wid sawdust.
Or if I did not care for the business I could have warned the girl " "The girl what girl?" Renshaw bit his lip but answered boldly, "The old man's daughter a poor girl whom this act would rob as well as her father." Sleight looked at his companion attentively. "You might have said so at first, and let up on this camp-meetin' exhortation.
"Ain't that for all the world like a camp-meetin', when a reformed ring-tail roarer calls out to the minister, 'That's a fact, Welly Fobus, by Gosh; amen! or when preacher says, 'Who will be saved? answers, 'Me and the boys, throw us a hen-coop; the galls will drift down stream on a bale o' cotton. Well then, our very lowest, and their very highest, don't always act pretty, that's a fact.
"Hosses out thar, but here we go like niggers to a camp-meetin'," she went on. "I'm not goin'." "Oh, do go, Mrs. Starbuck," Mrs. Mayfield pleaded. "No, I won't go a step. I won't be shamed in this way." "Sorry, Margaret," said Jasper. "I 'lowed you'd enjoy yo'se'f, still if you don't want to go thar's no way of compellin' you. Wall, climb up, everybody." Mrs.
'Twas Devil's Island once, till the Methodies changed it fur politeness. This is the camp-meetin', then? Yer, Wonnell, take this piece of money, an' go to some house an' fetch us a bite of dinner. We'll wait fur you."
Or if I did not care for the business I could have warned the girl" "The girl what girl?" Renshaw bit his lip, but answered boldly: "The old man's daughter a poor girl whom this act would rob as well as her father." Sleight looked at his companion attentively. "You might have said so at first, and let up on this camp-meetin' exhortation.
"Ain't that for all the world like a camp-meetin', when a reformed ring-tail roarer calls out to the minister, 'That's a fact, Welly Fobus, by Gosh; amen! or when preacher says, 'Who will be saved? answers, 'Me and the boys, throw us a hen-coop; the galls will drift down stream on a bale o' cotton. Well then, our very lowest, and their very highest, don't always act pretty, that's a fact.
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