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Updated: May 17, 2025
A man may be dead in the flesh, but living in law." "La! how cur'ous! Law is a wonderful thing, to them that understands it." The worthy Mrs. Thomas expressed a much more profound sentiment than that of which she was probably aware, herself. Law is a wonderful thing, and most wonderful is he who can tell what it is to-day, or is likely to be to-morrow.
Because he remembered nothing and know nothing, he may at first have been tolerated as a "cur'ous chap," then employed as he had explained. He could take the place of a better man where men were greatly needed. This theory could solve the problem; and Martine's hospital experience prepared his mind to understand what would be a hopeless mystery to many.
'Twas in the quarry I worked, mostly erbout 'lection time. Cur'ous, ain't it, whut good pay a feller'll git fer light work erbout 'lection time? Wall, this year I ain't hed proper treatment. This party 'lows money is tight, an' he's filled his quarry up with dagoes, damned dagoes." He paused to scowl over the shanties of his immediate neighbors and at the industrious washerwoman up the dock.
An' he keeps comin' when I calls, too, or I'd shore burn the ground 'round him to a cinder. I'd be a disgrace to old Tennessee to let my boy Tom go preescribin' what I'm to call him. But they be cur'ous folks! The last time this hirelin' changes his name, I asks the reason. "'Tom, I says, 'this yere is the 'leventh time you cinches on a new name.
Of course we don't skin 'em none while they's stuck in the snow; but when the snow melts in the spring, we capers forth an' peels off the hides like shuckin' peas. They's froze stiff at the time, for the sun ain't got 'round to thaw the beef none yet; an' so the meat's as good as the day we downs 'em. "'An' that brings us to the cur'ous part.
They're cur'ous talkers i' this country, sir; the gentry's hard work to hunderstand 'em. I was brought hup among the gentry, sir, an' got the turn o' their tongue when I was a bye. Why, what do you think the folks here says for 'hevn't you? the gentry, you know, says, 'hevn't you' well, the people about here says 'hanna yey. It's what they call the dileck as is spoke hereabout, sir.
I can only tell you what I said; I do n't pretend to know how much he believed." "Heave ahead what next?" "Then I told him we went to Kamschatka for gold dust and ivory." "Whe-e-ew! What did the man say to that?" "Why, he smiled a bit, and a'ter that he seemed more cur'ous than ever to hear all about it.
Of course we'll have to ask after poor Tom, but we haven't any curiosity." "Wal, p'aps not ony thar is people that find this a dreadful cur'ous place. It's got, as I said, a pootyish harbure; but that ain't the grand attraction.
The Cap'n bought this no'count farm an' had this house built on it a proceedin' that, ef I do say it, struck ev'rybody as cur'ous." "It was curious," agreed Mr. Merrick. "But the cur'ous'est thing was thet he didn't make no 'tempt at farmin'. Folks said he had money to burn, fer he loaded it into this fool house an' then sot down an' smoked all day an' looked glum.
How happened it, darlin'? I'm cur'ous to hear." "I don't know, Mrs. Forbes," said Ellen, "but oh, where shall I find Dr. Gibson? Do tell me! he ought to be there now; oh, help me! where shall I go for him?" "Well, I declare," said the landlady, stepping back a pace, "I don't know as I can tell there ain't no sort o' likelihood that he's to hum this time o' day.
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