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But there the Vicar struck; and findin' no way to shake him, she made terms by outin' with two bottles o' wine that, to her scandal, she'd rummaged out from a cupboard o' young Master Dick's since he went back to Oxford College. 'Well, at any rate, says the Missus, 'my boy shall be spared the temptation: an' I hope 'tis no sign he's betaken hisself to secret drinkin'!
"And are people happier now than they were then?" asked Shelton. The old butler sucked his pipe. "No," he answered, shaking his old head; "they've lost the contented spirit. I see people runnin' here and runnin' there, readin' books, findin' things out; they ain't not so self-contented as they were." "Is that possible?" thought Shelton.
He was a sergeant, too. Them was his last words. Thunder, I wish we was sure 'a findin' our reg'ments t'-night. It 's goin' t' be long huntin'. But I guess we kin do it." In the search which followed, the man of the cheery voice seemed to the youth to possess a wand of a magic kind. He threaded the mazes of the tangled forest with a strange fortune.
"Sure; I heerd as how the sojers hed been drawed in, an' naturally reckoned the Injuns would n't be over-long findin' it out. 'Nother fool thing fer the sojers ter dew." He paused, listening intently. In the silence, above the slight sound of the running water, I felt sure I could distinguish voices speaking not far distant. "It 's no place yere ter stay," he whispered, his lips close at my ear.
"Wall," sez he, cross as a bear, "that is the way you'll have to take me back, if you go on in this way much longer." "In what way, Josiah?" sez I. "Why a findin' springs and draggin' a man off to 'em, and makin' him drink." "Why, Josiah Allen," sez I, "I told you not to drink don't you remember?" "No! I don't remember nuthin', nor don't want to.
She'd dig an' rake away an' be right down happy over it. Them was the very words she said." "Were they?" said Mary. "How many things she knows, doesn't she?" "Eh!" said Martha. "It's like she says: 'A woman as brings up twelve children learns something besides her A B C. Children's as good as 'rithmetic to set you findin' out things." "How much would a spade cost a little one?" Mary asked.
During dinner Pete pointed to the river far below us, saying, "Look! Indian canoe." I could not make it out without my binoculars, but with their aid discerned a canoe on the river, containing a solitary paddler. None of us, excepting Pete, could see the canoe without the glasses, at which he was very proud and remarked: "No findin' glass need me. See far, me. See long way off."
"He is one of our tribe, I think," replied the Indian, in the same low voice, "but I know him not; the light of the fire is not strong." "If he's one o' your tribe," said Roy, "it's all up with us, for they won't be long o' findin' us here. Keep close to me, Nell. I'll stick by you, lass, don't fear."
"If I had what that scoundrel has promised me for findin' him out or securin' him here's here's here's to you I say, if I had, you and I would" Here he pointed with his thumb over his shoulder, as much as to say they would try another climate. "And now," he proceeded, "for a search on the shake-down. " and he was proceeding to search Fergus, when Mary flew at him like a tigress.
I'll turr-n over an' sleep till eight-wan and thin I'll wake up refrished, I says. 'Tis ilivin o'clock whin me tired lids part f'r good an' Casey has been here to pay me eight dollars an' findin' me not up has gone away f'r another year." "A marrid man gets th' money, Hinnissy, but a bachelor man gets th' sleep.
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