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Halsing, solemnly, "why did you ever come to the frontier?" "We were lacking somewhat in this world's goods. And we wish to make a provision for our little girl. We are young and don't care for privation." "You ain't fitten for the frontier."
Mary Ellen could not restrain a smile, but it did not impinge upon the earnestness of the other. "Yas'm, Miss Ma'y Ellen," she continued, again taking the girl's face between her hands. "Gord, he say, it hain't good fer man toe be erlone. An' Gord knows, speshul in er lan' like this yer, hit's a heap mo' fitten fer a man toe be erlone then fer a 'ooman.
"Rindy ain' mah'ed. He's des' an accident. Shet yo' mouth, you imp er darkness, fo' I shet hit fur you." "Don't hurt him, Delphy," pleaded the girl. "Rindy ought to be ashamed of herself, but it isn't his fault. I'm going to send him some clothes. He looks fat enough, anyhow." "He's fitten ter bus'," retorted Delphy sternly.
"W'y, yes, y'can, too, Ezry," Aunt Keren argued, "seems to me you're forehanded enough, to do for an only child. 'Tain't 's if you was like me 'n' Ab., with our four chunies." "She'd have to go to an academy first to get fitten for it," said Ma. "She couldn't go to the Univers'ty for three or four years yet." "Of course not," I answered; "but you might write to Mr.
Ye set thar nosin' a handful o' rocks ez ef they war fitten ter eat! An' now look at the boy a stuffin' 'em in his pockets ter sag 'em down and tear 'em out fur me ter sew in ag'in. Waal, waal!
And she says to me, 'Pap, you shan't go one step toward that fetch-taked town unless you agree to take Sammy some pickles made outen the finest cucumbers that ever growd. And I jest said, 'You do up your pickles and don't you be askeered of me. And she begins then to fix 'em up, a-talkin' all the time fitten to kill herself.
And many's the time afterward, when me and the doctor had lost track of each other, and they was quite a spell people got to thinking I was a tramp, I've went into these here Andrew Carnegie libraries in different towns jest as much to see if they had anything fitten to read as fur to keep warm. Well, we went easing over toward the Indiany line, and we was having a purty good time.
'Pap, she says, and I begin to dodge back, 'for as smart a man as you are, I do think you can say the foolishest things of anybody I ever seen. Pickles fitten to eat in a town where if a person ain't dressed up he can't get into the churches on the Lord's day; and where, if they do get in, the minister won't even so much as cast his eye on 'em while he's a preachin' of his sermon!
What are you going to do?" A sudden kindness was in the girl's voice. "I'm a-goin' out to Fort Bridger, that's what I'm a-goin' to do; an' when I git thar I'm a-goin' to lick hell out o' both my squaws, that's what I'm a-goin' to do! One's named Blast Yore Hide, an' t'other Dang Yore Eyes. Which, ef ye ask me, is two names right an' fitten, way I feel now."
"Pap," said the girl, urgently, "the baby ain't fit to go to the mill to-night if ever she ought. You said that you'd get day work for them all. If you won't do that, let Deanie stay home for a spell. She sure enough isn't fit to work." Himes faced his stepdaughter angrily. "When I say a child's fitten to work it's fitten to work," he rounded on her. "I hain't axed your opinion have I? No.
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