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"She lays there on a bed of pain," said the deacon. "But she says to me, 'You go. Better the house o' mournin' than the house o' feastin', she says. Oh, my friends! what can be more blessed than the counsel of an aged and feeble companion?" The deacon sat down, and Tom Drake, his finger on the pea-shooter, assured himself, in acute mental triumph, that he had almost done it that time.
It's better to come to the house of murnin' than the house of feastin', you know." "You may be thankful you've a house to cover you, Ann Perrine, an'" "Yes, I know. I'm resigned. But there's no affliction like death. Bone, open the gate for Mis' Browst. Them hasps is needin' mendin', as I've often said to Joseph, um!"
Fothergill West of Branksome, who would come if he was required, ought tae be able tae show a bauld face what think ye?" "'Deed, sir," I says, "feastin' is aye better than fechtin' but if ye'll raise me a pund a month, I'll no' shirk my share o' either." "We won't quarrel ower that," says he, and agreed tae the extra twal' pund a year as easy as though it were as many bawbees.
"I understood as old Wiggins was made a good deal on in Liverpool as bein' the oldest skipper that had ever come there, and the Board of Trade and what not giv' him dinners, and so on which, considerin' his age, he oughtn't to have took and by other skippers at the hotel he were much honored, bein' giv' the head of the table and treated with great deference and all this dinin' and winin' and feastin' weren't no good to him and, arter a stay of three weeks, when we ag'in went down the river with full complement of passengers and a good freight, he weren't not by no means as well as when we went in.
'Plain victuals goes ill down after feastin'. Philip felt the colour mount to his face; he was not in the mood for patiently standing the brunt of the attack which he saw was coming, and yet he had a reverent feeling for woman and for age. He wished she would leave him alone; but he only said 'I had nought but a slice o' cold beef for supper, if you'll call that feasting.
"Friends," said the Trapper, standing erect in his place and looking cheerfully at the row of bearded and expectant faces on either hand in front of him, "friends, I axed ye to come and eat this Christmas dinner with me because I love the companionship of the woods and hated, on this day of human feastin' and gladness, to eat my food alone.
But we didn't; and after feastin' our eyes on the beauty and wonder on't, we sot off to see the rest of the flowers and plants, for we laid out when we first went to the World's Fair to see one thing at a time so fur as we could, and then tackle another, though I am free to confess that it wuz sometimes like tacklin' the sea-shore to count the grains of sand, or tacklin' the great north woods to count how many leaves wuz on the trees, or measurin' the waters of Lake Ontario with a teaspoon, or any other hard job you are a mind to bring up.
I answered her like one talkin' onbeknown to herself, two of my eyes and my spectacles furtively watchin' the liniment of my beloved pardner, and my speritual eyes feastin' on the perfect loveliness of the seen.
Stand here by my side and sing us the song that has been ringin' in yer ears all day. This is a table of feastin', and feastin' means more than eatin'. Sing us the song that tells ye of the past, of yer boyhood's days and father and mother." Oh, the secrets of the woods! How many have fled to them for concealment and refuge!
Have you had any experience?" "Just the Colorado Ranger School, sir," said the boy. "You were to be here three days ago." "Yes, Mr. Merritt, but I was delayed, and I put up a couple of days with Ben, here." "He reckoned he had more right to a rabbit what a bob-cat was feastin' on than the cat had," volunteered Rifle-Eye in explanation.
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