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Jones?" inquired Hannah. "Why, my dear, good child, when did ever I stop for weather? I've been a-monthly nussing up to Colonel Mervin's for the last four weeks, and my time was up to-day, and so I sat out to come home; and first I stopped on my way and got my tea along of Mrs. Spicer, at Brudenell, and now I s'pose I shall have to stop all night along of you. Can you 'commodate me?"
"I sh'll work in the store fer the rest of the week, jest to 'commodate 'em," she announced putting her head back in the door as she went out, "but not a day longer. I got a lot t'do. Say, won't I be some lady in the five-an'-ten the rest o' the week? Oh Boy! I'll tell the world!"
"I'd like ter 'commodate ye," he added, "but as I'm carryin' Uncle Sam's mail, an' must git home an' tend the light, and as ye don't know whar ye want ter go, ye best jump in an' go down to Saint's Rest, whar I live, an' in the mornin' we'll try an' hunt up yer boat." It seemed the only thing to do, and Albert availed himself of the chance.
An' I gev five-an'-eightpence for that piece o' net, if I was to tell y' anything else I should be tellin' you fibs, an' five-an'-eightpence I shall ask of it, not a penny more, for it's a woman's article, an' I like to 'commodate the women. Five-an'-eightpence for six yards, as cheap as if it was only the dirt on it as was paid for." "I don't mind having three yards of it," said Mrs. Glegg.
"Well," responded Hardy, "of course there are several things you might do to accommodate me, but maybe you wouldn't mind telling me how you got in here, just for instance?" "Always glad to 'commodate where I can, of course," returned the sheepman grimly. "I came in over the top of them Four Peaks yonder." "Um," said Hardy, glancing up at the rocky walls.
Suppose Marks and I have taken up the catchin' trade, jest to 'commodate gentlemen like you, and get nothin' for ourselves? Not by a long chalk! we'll have the gal out and out, and you keep quiet, or, ye see, we'll have both, what's to hinder? Han't you show'd us the game? It's as free to us as you, I hope.
So I told 'em I's very sorry dat I couldn't 'commodate 'em, but de fact war we wanted to put de wood in it ourselves. When I said dat, one of de niggers begin to got sassy. I just informed 'em dat dey'd better make demselves scarce mighty quick, if dey didn't want dis pusson in dar wool. Dey didn't mind what was said, howsumever, and purty soon I cotched 'em runnin' off wid de wood-box.
"I know it aint; but, you see, the judge he pays me liberal, and he gives me a fust-rate house and garden, and the liberty of his own orchards and vineyards, and a great many other privileges besides, and he expects me to 'commodate him in turn by doing of little things as isn't exactly in the line of my duty," answered Gray.
"James June & all that lives at Larences" were allowed to build a "Sabbath-House" on the green near the New Britain meeting-house "as a Commodate for their conveniency of comeing to meeting on the Sabbath;" at the same time James Slason of the same village was given permission to "set yp a house for ye advantage of his having a place to go to" on the Sabbath.
"What do you mean?" asked Greenleaf, between anger and terror, at this brutal jest. "Why, he's dead, you know, and ben layin' up there on the side-hill a fortnight." "Take me to the house, nevertheless." "Lee's house? 'Siah Stebbins, the lame shoemaker, he's jest moved into't. Miss Stebbins, she can't 'commodate ye, most likely; got too many children; a'n't over an' above neat, nuther."
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