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Updated: May 16, 2025
"We may be all equals as soldiers; but we cawn't git away from it, Bill, some of 'em are gentlemen. Thet's wot they are. Some of 'em just make me ashamed of myself sometimes. No, I ain't a puttin' on no side; but I just want to let 'em see that we workin' chaps can behave as well as they can. Thet's all. See?" Meanwhile, good news came from the front.
He was one of the many drivers who had taken advantage of a long-suffering public during the war-time scarcity of taxi-cabs and he hoped to continue the process during the peace. Incivility had become a confirmed habit with him. "But I can't miss it!" declared Nan. "And this 'ere taxi cawn't catch it." "Do you mean you really can't get her to go?" asked Nan.
Ther's thirteen of 'em. An' I suppose w'en them toes gits a-shoutin' yeh cawn't 'ear nothin' of hankle, or 'eel, but it's all toes. Ther's five to one. But, doctor, 'e sez, as 'e druv' away, 'if it's not too bold, would yeh mind buryin' them toes?" "But," said Mrs. Fallows, pulling herself up, "I do talk.
She recalled certain other women who had come from the Outside and had not appreciated Gopher Prairie. She remembered the rector's wife who had been chilly to callers and who was rumored throughout the town to have said, "Re-ah-ly I cawn't endure this bucolic heartiness in the responses."
'Doctor, sez 'e, 'is them toes buried, if I might be so bold? 'Cawn't say, sez the doctor quite hindifferent, though 'e must 'a' knowed. 'Well, my opinion is, sez father, ''e'll feel them toes till they're took an' buried an' rotted away in the ground. An' then 'e tells 'bout 'is sister's boy. 'Nonsense, sez the doctor, 'tain't 'is toes at all.
Engine trouble spelt disaster, and Nan hopped out and joined the driver in the road. "What's wrong?" she asked. She looked down anxiously at her wrist-watch. "I shall miss my train at this rate." "I cawn't 'elp it if you do," returned the man surlily.
Barron, ee says ee'll make tha give up. Ee's been goin' roun' the village, talkin' to folk. I doan't care about that an' I've never been one o' your men not pious enough, be a long way but I'd like to hear now as I can't do tha no harm, Rector, now as I'm goin', an' you cawn't deny me what tha does really believe. Will tha tell me?"
This time he was gone longer, and when he returned he said anxiously: "Would it be awsking too much, sir, to 'ave you repeat your border, sir? I cawn't think I 'ave it right, sir, y'know." "Two eggs," said the American sadly and patiently "one fried on one side and one on the other." More oppressive silence and another and fainter "Very well, sir." This time he was gone still longer.
With the gale in their backs, they set off up stream, the men holding by the stirrups. For some minutes they battled on through the blizzard. Well for them that they had the brawling Creek to guide them that night, for through this swaying, choking curtain of snow it was impossible to see more than a horse length. In a few minutes Mr. Penny called out, "I say, I cawn't go a step further.
It took all the grace Job had to see the arrogant boor, with his two hundred and fifty avoirdupois, get Tony to help him mount Bess, and, poking her in the ribs, call out, "What a bloomin' 'orse! Cawn't h'it go!" and ride off toward Lookout Point. It was astonishing, the politeness Andrew Malden assumed; how he overlooked all the gruffness of his guest and treated him like a prince.
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