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"I was heading for home about eight, with two big dreeners full of clams, and had just climbed the bluff and swung over the fence into the path, when somebody remarks: 'Here, you! I jumped and turned round, and there, beating across the field in my direction, was an exhibit which, it turned out later, was ticketed with the name of Alpheus Vandergraff Parker Davidson 'Allie' for short.
They mean that you ain't to cross the field. Understand? "I understood. I was mad clean through, but I'm law-abiding, generally speaking. 'All right, I says, picking up my dreeners and starting for the farther fence; 'I won't cross it again. "'You won't cross it now, says he. 'Go back where you come from. "That was a grain too much. I told him a few things. He didn't wait for the benediction.
'Take him, Prince! he says, dropping the chain. "Prince was willing. He fetched a kind of combination hurrah and growl and let out for me full-tilt. I don't feed good fresh clams to dogs as a usual thing, but that mouth HAD to be filled. I waited till he was almost on me, and then I let drive with one of the dreeners.
'Taint pleasant to be made a show afore folks, but 'twas the feller's condescending what-excuse-you-got-for-living manners that riled me most. "I picked up what was left of the dreeners and walked over to the fence. That field was just sowed, as you might say, with clams. If they ever sprouted 'twould make a tip-top codfish pasture.
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