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And so on down the line. Everybody gets what chance determines for him, and there can be no charges of unfairness. It turned very cold that night. The last thing I heard was Matt Hyde protesting to the hunchback: "Durn you, Bill Cope, you're so cussed crooked a man cain't lay cluss enough to you to keep warm!"
He hung up his receiver and went out, finding Bucephalus still at work on the wagon. "Did yo' catch him, sah?" asked the man. "Werry conwenient little instrament, dat tullyphome, ain't it? Werry myster'ous, too. Just think o' hearin' a man talkin' a mile or two away, an' yo' unnerstan' him as plain like he was right cluss up."
It is true, that the neighbourhood sometimes fancied him 'close, or, as they expressed it, "cluss," and men got to look sharply to their own interests in their dealings with him; but, on the whole, there was perhaps more reason to apprehend, in such a community, that the example of so good a man should be accepted as authority, than that his acts should impeach his character, or endanger his standing.
Yo'll fin' it cluss to de do', sah." "All right," and Jack went into the barn, where he saw a telephone receiver and transmitter on a little shelf near the door. He took down the receiver and called up the number which Bucephalus had given him, waiting a moment for an answer. "Hello, who is this?" he presently heard over the wire. "John Sheldon. I was told to call you up.
Presently I felt my sleeve pulled, and heard the woman's voice. 'You didn't know as I was cluss behind you all the while, a-watchin' your tantrums. Never spile a good mind, my young swell. Out with t'other quid, an' then I'll tell you somethink about my pootty darter as is on my mind.
Here Joel sneezed, repeating the word "and" several times, in hopes the chaplain would supply the name he so much wished to hear. "But you saw no savages? I know the captain is out, and you will be careful not to mention it, lest it get to Mrs. Willoughby's ears, and make her uneasy. You saw nothing of the savages?" "Not a bit the critturs lie cluss enough, if they haven't actually tramped.
The female sank down in the golden air, and I kept cluss beside her, and as she kept droppin' she suddenly changed, like the old woman in the fairy-book, into a bouncin' girl, the very pictur of the goddess of liberty! Arter this, she turned and smiled on me. She looked just like alabaster cream; the most dazzlingest creetur that ever startled the beholder!
'Reia, said Sinfi, with much solemnity, 'the world's full o' vittles; what's wanted is jist a hand as can put the vittles and the mouths where they ought to be cluss togither. That's what the hungry Romany says when he snares a hare or a rabbit. We walked on. After a while Sinfi said: 'A Romany knows more o' these here kinds o' things, reia, than a Gorgio does.
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