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"Where's my little girl?" "She's there. Never mind her yit, till you're dressed. Here; not them cloze; these here homespun things. Make haste, but don't get excited." "How long have I slept?" asked Mary, hurriedly obeying. "You couldn't 'a' more'n got to sleep. Sam oughtn't to have shot back at 'em.
Seeing their mother put on her bonnet, the younger children clamoured to go with her. "I do want to walk a little-ways wi' Sissy, now she's going to marry our gentleman-cousin, and wear fine cloze!" "Now," said Tess, flushing and turning quickly, "I'll hear no more o' that! Mother, how could you ever put such stuff into their heads?"
"Victorine, I could go with you in that boat, if only I could be for one minute in that old empty front room alone." Victorine halted and sadly tossed a hand: "Ah! h-amptee, yes, both the front and the back till yes-the-day! This morning, the front, no! Juz' sinze laz' week they 'ave brick' up bitwin them cloze by that burned hole, to make of the front an office, and now the front 't is o'cupy!"
But Edny Ann reckoned the cowhiding was to be done by Alston. "An' her dersarves it, kase her's a big fool," said Edny Ann, "hangin' roun' him, an' patchin' his cloze like her wus morred ter 'im an' washin' his shut an' britches ev'ry Saddy night."
We'll, he dressed like a streak, and stalked off; and Beany whispered, 'Where did you get that coat? but seems we didn't like to yell it right at him. He had a funny look. So we swam and by-en-by we come away too." "You forgot what we found," reminded Beany. "When we came where his cloze had been we found two papers.
My elbow then as now was leaning on a table, supplied with books and writing-tools. "What shall I do," thought I, "then, to pass away the time till ten? Can't think of going to bed till that hour, and if I sit here, idly basking in the beams of this cheerful blaze, I shall fall into a listless, uneasy cloze, that, without refreshing me, as sleep would do, will unfit me for sleep. "Shall I read?
It was good cloth, too, unt I sold it at a bargain." "It certainly was good cloth, and cheap," admitted the Deacon. "What in the world are you doin' down here in them clothes?" "I'm doing just what these men are doing here in their cloze," answered Rosenbaum. "I'm trying to serve the country. I'm doing it different from them, because I'm built different from them. I hope I'm doing it well.
"To that corpulent figgur," sez I, "in military fixins." "That, sair," sez he, with severity, "is a portrait of his Majusty the King of Denmark, lately disEased." "A portraickt of his cloze, you mean," sez I. "Is that sprorling pictur a work of art? With that I scowled at the Creteck, and left him looking considerable smawl pertaters.
En Brer Coon, he sorter lick his cloze inter shape en rack off, en Brer Possum, he lay dar like he wuz dead, twel bimeby he raise up sorter keerful like, en w'en he fine de coas' cle'r he scramble up en scamper off like sumpin' was atter 'im."
"Pap, do you reckon I'm fool enough to traipse down to Gullettsville an' mix with them people, wearin' cloze like these? Do you reckon I'm fool enough to make myself the laughin'-stock for them folks?" Teague Poteet was not a learned man, but he was shrewd enough to see that the Mountain had a new problem to solve. He took down his rifle, whistled up his dogs, and tramped skyward.
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