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Updated: May 20, 2025
The Lard has been wonderful good to us, and I'll never be complainin'." It was never Uncle Willie's way to complain about hard luck. He always did his best, and somehow, no matter how hard a pinch in which he found himself, it always came out right in the end.
"They had been freighting from the railroad, and as we left the barracks we ran afoul of four outfits, three span to the wagon, with the loads piled on till the teams was all lather and the wheels complainin' to the gods, trying to pass the corner of the barracks where there was a narrow opening between the buildings.
Ovid looked a bit doubtful, but Scattergood's voice was so interested, so bland, that any suspicion of irony was allayed. "How's your ma?" Scattergood asked. "Pert," answered Ovid. "Ma's spry. Barrin' a siege of neuralgy in the face off and on, ma hain't complainin' of nothin'." "Has she took to patronizin' a city tailor, too?" Scattergood asked. "Mostly," said Ovid, "ma makes her own."
Well, Poll, and how are you?" "There's no use in complainin', Darby; I'm middlin' and how is yourself?" "Throth, Poll, I've a lump in my stomach that I fear will settle me yet, if I don't get it removed somehow. But, sure, the hathens, I forgive them." In the meantime he slyly rubbed his nose and winked both eyes, as he looked towards Susanna, as much as to say, "I know all."
Leastwise I heerd ole Bud Rabig complainin' thet he never did hev a show wen Jesse he was around, 'cause the annermiles they jest seem ter hanker arter Jesse's traps. Folks do say he hes a kinder scent he uses ter jest coax 'em like," replied the cook, not above hoping these sons of Centerville rich people might think it worth while to toss him a generous tip for any information he gave them.
But see here, Colonel, you mustn't go thinkin' it's smooth glare-ice, like this, all the way." "Oh, I was figurin' that it would be." But the Boy paid no heed to the irony. "And it's a custom o' the country to get the wind in your face, as a rule, whichever way you go." "Well, I'm not complainin' as yet." "Reckon you needn't if you're blown like dandelion-down all the way to Minóok.
"He don't ask you because the buggy won't hold but two, and you know it. I should think you'd be glad to have me save the expense of my fare. Winnie S. would charge me fifty cents to take me to the depot, and the fare on the excursion train is " "Now what kind of talk's that! I ain't complainin' 'cause you save the expense. And I don't care if you go along with all the old men from here to Joppa.
"I didn't say I wouldn't do it for you, Seth," he pleaded. "I'm always willin' to do your work. You're the one that's been complainin'." "Ugh! Well, I'm likely to complain some more, but the complaint's one thing, and the need's another. I'm like Joel Knowles he said when he couldn't get whisky he worried along best he could with bay rum.
In deefault of a shore-enough sanchooary, he allows he yootilises that depot of trade as a headquarters; an' he's now waitin', all keyed up an' ready to turn his little game. Likewise, he's been complainin' 'round some querulous that you folks is harsh with him, an' abducts him an' threatens his skelp. "'Now, see thar! ejac'lates Abby, liftin' up her hands.
Thou canst not withhold a tincture of lemon from the sweetest cup! "But how is my precentor to-day?" I renewed, fearful of additional repairs to his eulogy. "Weel, I'm no' complainin' an' I'm no' boastin'; but there's mony a yin waur.
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