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"Made it last night," he explained, "an' it turned out better'n usual. Thought mebbe I'd have company before long." "Did you meet the others?" Reynolds asked. "Oh, yes, I met 'em," Samson chuckled. "Were they far ahead?" "Y' bet, an' chatterin' like a bunch of monkeys. Guess they're thar by now." "Were they surprised to see you?" "H'm, they didn't see me.
"'Well, said I, 'if it 'tis, try it now, and see what sort of a fist you'll make of it. "So Paddy takes the rifle, lookin' as knowin' all the time as if he had ever seed one afore. Well, there was a great red squirrel, on the tip-top of a limb, chatterin' away like any thing, chee, chee, chee, proper frightened; he know'd it warn't me, that was a parsecutin' of him, and he expected he'd be hurt.
"What the mischief are ye standin' star-gazin' there for, ye lazy swabs, chatterin' an' grinnin' away loike a parcel av monkeys?" he cried, waving his arms about as if he were going to knock some of them down. "If I had my way wid ye, an' had got ye aboord a man-o'-war along o' me, it's `four bag' I'd give ivery man Jack o' ye.
"Tom," he said, "why can't you let a feller finish his dinner without chatterin' furever? I see the day comin' when you'll talk us all plum' to death." Silent Tom shook his head in dissent. He had exhausted speech. Paul, who had remained at the door, watching, announced an increase of rain and wind.
Say, it had sittin' behind the brass rail in the office beat to a froth, and I was enjoyin' it, lazy and comf'table, with my feet up on the bench and my head back; when all at once there's a big spasm of applause, the doors openin' on the back veranda are swung open, everybody starts chatterin' together, there's a swish and a rustle and a clatter of high heels; and the next thing I knew the whole blamed garden was full of 'em.
Yet I remember that Grandma Bartlett, who had been deterred by the infirmity of age from joining the procession, and had remained at the window, alone, regaled the Wallencampers, on their return, with a choice fancy, in which the Turkey Mogul and I had stood "talkin' and chatterin' on the school-house steps, for an hour or more."
"An' I reckon hard hit. But I won't follow him to-night." Both the girls got up, and Helen found she was shaky on her feet and very cold. "Oh-h, wasn't it won-wonder-ful!" cried Bo. "Are you scared? Your teeth are chatterin'," queried Dale. "I'm cold." "Well, it sure is cold, all right," he responded. "Now the fun's over, you'll feel it.... Nell, you're froze, too?" Helen nodded.
And then to see the little critter shake herself when she gets up, like a duck landin from a pond, a chatterin away all the time like a Canary bird, and you a haw-hawin with pleasure, is fun alive, you may depend. In this way Blue Nose gets led on to offer himself as a lovier, afore he knows where he bees. But when he gets married, he recovers his eyesight in little less than half no time.
Grouped in the middle of it, in front of a fountain banked with ferns, are about a dozen people who seem to be chatterin' away earnest and excited. "Why, how odd!" says Mrs. Robert, hesitatin' with her thumb on the bell button. "Looks like a fam'ly caucus," says I. "Maybe they heard we were coming and are taking a vote to see whether they let us in or bar us out."
He caught sight of me as he came back, and seating himself upon a branch, not six feet from my head, began chatterin' and barkin' as if givin' me a regular lecter for invadin' his premises, and takin' possession of his tree. He didn't seem to understand the matter at all, and I didn't undertake to explain the reason of my being there.
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