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Updated: June 16, 2025
"If he'd listened to me at the right time, would we have to be taking in boarders and sinking DOWN in the scale at the end of our lives, instead of going UP? You were both wrong; we didn't need to be so panicky that was just what that old man wanted: to scare us and buy us out for nothing! If your father'd just listened to me then, or if for once in his life he'd just been half a MAN "
"You've got more courage than ever I had; don't you s'pose you can stiffen up and defend yourself a little mite?... Your father'd ought to be opposed, for his own good... but I've never seen anybody that dared do it." Then, after a pause, she said with a flash of spirit, "Anyhow, Waitstill, he's your father after all.
"Ah, that was last month when I and Lin shot the bear in the swamp willows. He made me dry off my legs. Chuck it away." "And spoil the pair? No, indeed!" "Mother always chucked 'em, an' father'd buy new ones till I skipped from home. Lin kind o' mends 'em." "Does he?" said Jessamine, softly. And she looked at the photograph. "Yes.
"I heard Squire Bates and Major Dabney naming it one day last week." "Well, it's shore comin' right thoo' Paradise. I heard tell how it was goin' to cut the old Maje's grass patch plumb in two, and run right smack thoo' you-uns' peach orchard." "Huh!" said Thomas Jefferson. "What do you reckon my father'd be doing all that time? He'd show 'em!"
Next moment she thought, "Now they all s'pose I did that to purpose! I don't care if they do! I'll act worse'n that! I wonder what my father'd say if I should jump right up and down, and scream?" It certainly was not safe to try the experiment. Dotty contented herself by scowling at her dry toast.
I wish father'd let me go out to find a sea-serpent like that; but he don't let me have a chance to distinguish myself. "Bill was saying only yesterday that the Indians caught him once and drove eleven railroad spikes through his stomach and cut off his scalp, and it never hurt him a bit. He said he got away by the daughter of the chief sneaking him out of the wigwam and lending him a horse.
"Whitey," said Bill, "I got somep'n' for you t' do, an' I'm 'fraid it'll take you out o' school for a while." Whitey looked sharply at Bill for a trace of suspicion or sarcasm, but Bill's face was as blank as a Chinaman's. "'S very important," Bill continued, "an' I think your father'd consider me justified in takin' you away fr'm your lessons."
"Captain Kemp!" exclaimed Ned, "I believe father'd be willing to lose something, rather than have the Mexicans get that ammunition." "Very likely he would," laughed the captain, "but I'm an Englishman, and I don't care. What's more, I'm like a great many Americans. Millions of them believe that the Mexicans are in the right in this matter."
"I always say if John Burkhardt had shown you the color of real money! But what's a man to-day on just a fair living? Not worth burying yourself in a dump like this for. No, sirree. When I married Ed, anyways I thought I smelled big money. I couldn't see ahead that his father'd carry out his bluff and cut him off. But what did you have to smell a feed-yard in a hole of a town!
"I swear I'm all puffed up with conceit when I consider the kind of father I selected for myself." "Those scoundrels would have killed you," old Hector reminded him, with just a trace of emotion in his voice. "And if they'd done that, sonny, your old father'd never held up his head again.
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