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"I'm not goin' to believe," said one good old brother, who was an exhorter in the Methodist Church, "that the army is sich a pitfall, sich a snare to the feet o' the unwary as many try to make out. There's no need of any man or boy who goes to serve his country and his God, fallin' from grace and servin' the devil. Don't you think so, too. Deacon?
Course, this fallin' back on his native tongue must have been a relief to him, but it didn't help me out much. Some I could guess at, and when I couldn't I'd get him to repeat it until I worked up a hunch. Then we'd take a fresh start. It's surprisin', too, how well we got along after we had the system doped out. And accordin' to the Hon. Pete this Cap.
Faith, it's not beautiful that Craigin calls it, fer ivery thaw the bottom goes clane out av it till ye can't git round fer mud an' the dump fallin' through to the antipods," replied Tom. "Yes, but up on this flat here, Tommy, under the big pines, that would be a fine spot for the camp." "It wud that same. Bad luck to the man who set it where it is."
I seen last night, at feedin'-time, the hair on her tail an' flanks was fallin' out. The Doc says " "Never mind that," Smoke broke in impatiently. "What I want " "What's eatin' you?" Shorty demanded in indignant astonishment. "An' Sally gettin' naked bald in this crimpy weather! I tell you that dog's sick. Doc says " "Let Sally wait. Listen to me " "I tell you she can't wait.
County Court days you'd see him goin' along on his big gray mare with Annie behind him, holdin' on to the sides of his coat with her little fat hands, her sunbonnet fallin' off and her curls blowin' all around her face, like as not she hadn't had 'em combed for a week, and in the evenin' about sunset here they'd come, Annie in front fast asleep, and Old Man Bob holdin' her on one arm and guidin' his horse with the other.
The country's played out, that's whatsa matter. Law and order, law and order, till a feller can't turn round no more without fallin' into jail." "She's one lucky thing for you, cowboy," said Racey, seriously, "that Kansas did come. Three of 'em! You had yore gall. Lookit here, next time you let 'em talk. Names don't hurt less they're said to a feller's face."
"Only way he shows his years he ain't so fond of fallin' as he was. And I don't blame him. Round about forty a man begins to get a bit brittle like." He lilted off after his jockey. Goosey Gander stood stripped of everything but his bridle, with dark flanks and lowered head reaching at his bit. He was a typical Woodburn horse: a great upstanding bay, full of bone and quality. But he showed wear.
"I mought hev knowed that we-uns war a-goin' ter hev this spell o' weather by the sign o' the warpin'-bars fallin' las' night," said John Grow, stamping off the snow as he came in from feeding his horse. "I hope 'tain't no worse sign," said his wife. "But I misdoubts." And she sighed heavily. "'Tain't no sign at all," said Solomon suddenly. He could keep his secret no longer.
"Well! the wind wass blowing, and the snow wass fallin' shockin', and I could not let her carry her big bundle of clothes and she in the condition she wass " "Condition?" gasped Cardo, "what do you mean?" Shoni looked at him with keen, searching eyes.
Her hands wus clasped over her knees; and her hair, which the boy had got loose a playin' with her, wus fallin' round her face and neck. And her great, earnest eyes wus lookin' into the West, and the light from the sunset fallin' through the mornin'-glorys wus a fallin' over her, till I declare, I never see any thing look so pretty in my hull life.
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