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Sit ye down, and, after eating of this morsel, tell me, if you can, the name of the creatur' that has bestowed on you its flesh for a meal?" The exercise he had taken, and the sharpness of the wind, proved excellent stimulants; and Paul himself had hardly been in better plight to do credit to the trapper's cookery, than was the lover of nature, when the grateful invitation met his ears.
That little creatur' may not live the night out. But I'll walk along with you, an' step in an' see how things seem." Once only in the Half-Mile walk did they speak, and then Clelia broke forth throbbingly to the accompaniment of a sudden color in her cheeks. "I don't know as I want to go into Richmond's house when he's away, now we're not the same."
I dunno whether It touched me; I dunno whether It said anything but I know It made me a new creatur'. I knew then I shouldn't be afraid o' things no more nor sorry. I found out 't was all right. 'I'm glad I'm alive, I said. 'I'm thankful! Seemed to me I'd been dead for the last twenty year. I'd come alive. "An' so I set there an' held my breath, for fear 'twould go.
And suttnly he did not show a bad taste; for though the other daughters were as ugly as their hideous ma, Mary Shum was a pretty little pink, modest creatur, with glossy black hair and tender blue eyes, and a neck as white as plaster of Parish.
An' if Squire Pettijohn is mean enough an' onfeelin' enough to treat him like he vowed he would ary tramp, 'even his own son, I guess we can let the Lord 'tend to him. He wouldn't know another day's peace, not if he's human; 'cause once that mis'able creatur', no matter what he is now, was a baby a baby in arms. But my suz, Eunice! I've just figured it out! How can the Squire 'rest anybody?
The Mingos will turn green with envy, and, what is more, they will not ventur' heedlessly near a village where it is known to be kept. So, look well to it, Delaware, and remember that you've now to watch over a thing that has all the valie of a creatur', without its failin's. Hist may be, and should be precious to you, but Killdeer will have the love and veneration of your whole people."
For I must tell you my grandfather and grandmother doted on one another. "I know you would," said my grandmother, dismally. "And I can't think how the temptation took me. But the poor creatur' was little more'n a boy and there were a-something in the eyes of him " She meant to say there was a-something that reminded her of her own eldest, that she had lost a dozen years before.
Like's not the old gentleman 'll think to call for it as he comes back along. Here's his fan, too, but he won't be likely to want that this winter." She looked at the large umbrella; there was a great deal of good material in it, but it was considerably out of repair. "I don't know but I'll stop an' mend it up for him, poor old creatur'," she said slowly, with an apologetic look at me.
Glory didn't feel, in the least, like a "poor creatur'." She felt as "chirpy as a sparrow bird," over in City Hall park; and, if the sun didn't shine in the Lane, she knew it was shining in the street beyond, so what mattered? Vaguely disturbed, the child laid her hand on his arm and asked, "Be you sick, grandpa?" He answered promptly and testily, "Sick? No, nor never was in my life.
He has had but a hard time of it amongst us, poor creatur'; for it used to make us wrathy to find thar war so little fight in him that he wouldn't so much as kill a murdering Injun. I took his gun from him once; for why, he wouldn't attend muster when I had enrolled him.
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