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"Fightin' ain't in your line it's too much like THEM. That Seth's sure to get even with you." "I can protect myself," he said haughtily. Nevertheless he had a depressing consciousness that his lithe and graceful burden was somewhat in the way of any heroic expression. "Seth can lick you out of your boots, chile," she said with naive abstraction.
"Republican win!" laughed Toby. "Meelyun man eena parade!" Mr. Pixley's small eyes lowered furtively. He glanced once toward the door, stroked his stubby chin, and answered softly: "Don't you be too sure of that, young feller. Them banks is fightin' each other ag'in!" "Bank? Fight? W'at eesa that?" inquired the merchant, with an entirely blank mind.
There was sharks about: cruel things happen 'pon the sea. The boat was in a gashly cauch of blood too. One chap Jeff Tresawna it was: his mother lived over to Looe had tried to open a vein, to drink, an' had made a mess o't an' bled to death. Far as I know there was no fightin' to eat one another, same as one hears tell of now an' then.
Indeed there would have been no chance for you but for the breaking out of war, and the fact that they are somewhat short of fightin' men just now. Not long after I landed on the island, an American whaler sent her boats ashore for water. They quarrelled, somehow, with the natives, who drove them into their boats with tremendous hooting and yells and some hard blows, although no blood was spilt.
Don' you see, if dey wasn't fools dey wouldn't fight; 'cause fightin' can't prove nuffin', an' it can't do nuffin', 'cep' waste life an' money. No doubt," added the negro, with a meditative gaze at the ground, "when rubbers come at a feller he's boun' to fight, for why? he can't help it; or when Red Injin savages " "Have a care, Quashy, what you say about Indians. I've warned you once already."
I'll never forget that day," said Ephraim, warming to the subject, "when we was fightin' Ewell up and down the Orange Plank Road, playin' hide-and-seek with the Johnnies in the woods. You remember them woods, General?" The President nodded, his cigar between his teeth. He looked as though the scene were coming back to him.
Why, he's actin' this mornin' jest like the world's his oyster and every month had an 'r' in it at that." "I'm delighted to hear it. I've always been taken with the chap; and I'm very glad you read him correctly. It seemed to me you were taking a risk. It would have broken the spirit of most men." "Well, you see I knew the stock. It's pushin', fightin' stock.
"I'd rather die a thousand times than have you turn your back," he whispered. It was a magic whisper, made magnetic by that fascinating dilation and contraction of his pupils; but the great body still swayed awkwardly. The storm was still there. "You know what life is to me," he was saying. "You know how I'm fightin' to get my share of learnin'; an' how much I've got to do!
"Ay, ay, Jack, 'tis true," came a deep-toned chorus of approval. "Besides," went on the forecastle orator, "we all know'd wot kind of a officer he is. Fightin' and prize money is wot we all want; and here 's where we 'll git it, you 'll see, eh, mates?" "Ay, ay; Jack's right, Bill."
I reckon the big trouble is that most folks got to see somethin' to fight afore they get goin'. Fightin' for a principle looks just like poundin' air to some folks. I don't believe in shootin' in the dark. How come, I've plugged a rattlesnake by just shootin' at the sound when he was coiled down where I couldn't see him. But this ain't no kind of talk for you to listen to, missy."
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