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"Why, what do you like about it?" she exclaimed. To her it had been distasteful. "Everything," he answered. "That young come-outer, and his fam'ly that can't understand him for he is broad gauge, yu' see, and they are narro' gauge." The Virginian looked at Molly a moment almost shyly.
A little wizened-up thing she was, always; but I tell you folks 'round here thought a nawful lot of Aunt Debby! And Eddie, if you'll believe it, never took the sickness at all. They say, sometimes, babies don't. "They got a fam'ly to come and work the farm for 'em, and Debby she took care of her little brother, same as she always had.
Don't you remember how that hired man down to Sudleigh toled the whole fam'ly out into the barn, one arter another, an' chopped their heads off " "You gi' me t'other end o' my cloud," commanded Mrs. Wadleigh. "I'm glad I've got on stockin'-feet. Where's t'other mittin? Oh! there 'tis, down by the sto'-leg.
If she had no baskets to stop for, she had "a bit o' business," which turned out to be a paper she had brought for the grandfather, or some fresh mint for the baby, or "jes' to inquire fur th' fam'ly." As to the amount that cart carried, it was a perpetual mystery to Lois.
But your interests bein' my interests after this, you hand ev'rything over to me, and I'll put a twist in the tail of that Bengal tiger in your fam'ly that 'll last him all his life." At the end of a long talk he sent her away with a pat on her shoulder and a cheery word in her ear.
And the boy, he says, "I'm powerful scaret o' dyin', that's why," he says. And that fuzzy caterpillar he laughed. "Dyin'!" he says. "I'm lottin' on dyin' myself. All my fam'ly," he says, "die every once in a while, and when they wake up they're jest splendid, got wings, and fly about, and live on honey and things. Why, I wouldn't miss it for anything!" he says. "I'm lottin' on it."
I hev some poultry customers here in the city, and I make out I got to come to look after business. That story don't go fur with the fam'ly; but they hev their way about everything else, so they got to gimme my way about this." Davenport turned around from the window, and spoke for the first time since entering: "Then you don't occupy this room more than half the time?"
Rowe is quite right. A canal is nothing to a river. There was a wide piece of water between us and one of the banks now, and other barges went by us, some sailing, some towing only, and two or three with women at the rudder, and children on the deck. "I wouldn't have my wife and fam'ly on board for something!" said Mr. Rowe grimly. "Have you got a family, Mr. Rowe?" I inquired.
"You know who I mean," pursued Sproul, complacently, "seein' that you've had fifteen years to study on her name. Now, bein' as I'm one of the fam'ly, I'm going to ask you what ye're lally-gaggin' along for? Wimmen don't like to be on the chips so long. I am speakin' to you like a man and a brother when I say that married life is what the poet says it is. It's "
To be sure.... Seems to me, though, it would be a sight more satisfyin' to live them fifty-odd years with her and raise up a fam'ly, and git some benefits out of that sweetness and beauty and sich like, besides mullin' 'em over in your mind. Speakin' of Seliny, wasn't you?" "Yes." "Don't hanker to marry her?" "Mr. Baines " "Then why in tunket don't you?" "She's a Baptist." "White, hain't she?"
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