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"Mr. Leggett, befo' I comes to dat finality, I owes it to myseff an' likewise to my pa'ents to git yo' respondence to, anyhow, one question, an' ef you de man o' poweh you say you is, y' ought to be highly fitt'n' to give de correc' reply." "Espoun' your question, miss! Espoun' yo' question!" "Well, seh, de question is dis: Why is de ? No, dat ain't it. Lemme see.
Told me so herself." "She tells everybody. Sometimes she's right set up about havin' buried two and havin' a third livin', and then when she gets mad with Mr. Jepson she says anybody could get husbands like hers. But, Miss Mary" again the anxious look hovered a moment on the earnest little face "muther ain't got a dress to her name fitt'n to wear.
"He knows whether de wheels in his pocket is fitt'n fur de gorspil kyar ur not! An' I say ter you to-day dat ef dat money in yo' pocket ain't clean money, don't you dare ter fetch it up heah! "Ef you made dat money sneakin' roun' henrooses in de dark o' de moon I don't say you is, but ef you is you set right still in yo' seat an' don't dare ter offer it ter de Lord, I say!
Make yo' paw put me som'ers in de crowd to-day whah I ken see you when you draps de hammeh on de golden spike Law'! dass de dress o' dresses! You looks highly fitt'n' to eat!" Young Fair had come to see the last spike driven in the Pulaski City, Suez and Great South Railroad. At breakfast Mrs. Garnet poured the coffee.
De Lawd mowt move me to do most fo' de one what least fitt'n' to" she choked "to die. An' yit ag'in dat mowt depen' on de circumstances o' de time bein'." "Well, it mustn't, Rebecca, it mustn't!" "Y' yass'm no'm'm! Mustn' it?" "No, in any case you must do as I tell you." "Oh, o' co'se! yass'm!" "So promise, now, that in any pinch you'll try first to save your son." "Yass'm."
"You knows you kin." "No, mi'ss, takin' all roads as dey come I ain't no ways fitt'n'; no'm." "Well, daddy's fitt'n'!" said the sun-bonnet. Euonymus flinched, yet smilingly said: "Yass, da's so, but I ain't daddy, no mo'n you is." "Well, us kin go fetch him in th'ee shakes." Euonymus flinched again, yet showed generalship. "Yass'm, us kin go ax daddy." I smiled. "Let Robelia go and you stay here."
"Ef you backed yo' wagon inter somebody else's watermillion patch by de roadside an' loaded up on yo' way ter town 'fo' sunup I don't say you is, mind yer, but ef you is set right whar you is, an' do des like you been doin', 'caze de money you made on dat early mornin' wagon load ain't fitt'n fur wheels fur de gorspil train!
This ain't yo' fight, son, an' you no need to get mixed in with it. You hear, son?" "I" the lad tried twice before he could speak "I want to go with you." "Why, no, son, you no need to go. You ain't fitt'n' to go. Yo' too young. You a-trembling now fum head to foot. Ain't you got a chill?" "N-no, sir." The boy shivered visibly. "I've got a pain in my side, but it don't don't hurt.
I've been talkin' right much with Him about it, and I'm askin' Him every day to make me fitt'n' to be your friend. They say love can do a lot for a person, and make a good thing out of a bad one, quicker'n anything else. And you'll never know on this earth how much I love you, Miss Mary." "Why, Peggy!"
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