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"Baxter ain't fittin', I tell ye, Abram Marrows," he exploded. "He ain't fittin' and never will be. Baxter don't know most nothin'. Set him to grubbin' clams, Abram, but don't let him fool 'round the Ledge. He'll git the sloop ashore, I tell ye, or drop a stone and hurt somebody.
Is your part all right?" "Yes, ma'am! And the only things fittin' to eat, cordin' to my thinkin', is what's been made right here. All that truck what's come from Washington is just slops, and, if you mark me, you'll be dead if it's et.
'Twas the most fittin' position fur my frame of mind and chimed in fust-rate with the general religious drift of my thoughts. "The Cut-through is two mile or more from Herrin' Neck. 'Cordin' to my count we hit terra cotta just three times in them two miles. The fust hit knocked my hat off.
"I have the villains in double irons and chained to the mainmast," replied McGuffey, "and as a testimonial of my gratitude for the increased interest in the syndicate which you and Scraggs has just voted me, I will scheme up a fittin' form of vengeance on them two tar babies. However, only an extraordinary sentence can fit such an extraordinary crime, so I must have time to think it over.
In their rapt attention there was no tinge of envy, for such things were too far above their reach to be once thought of in connection with themselves. It was upon the fit of Desire's dresses, however, that Miss Mercy, with the instinct of the artist, grew most impassioned. "'Tain't no credit to me a fittin her," she would sometimes protest. "Thar's some figgers you can't fetch cloth tew, nohow.
"Richard'll think I'm lost," and bidding her new acquaintances good bye, she hurried to the gate, having first given orders for Bedouin to be brought from the stable. "Shan't I go home wid you, Miss?" asked the negro, who held the pony; "it's hardly fittin' for you to go alone."
"I claim that old man's not fittin' to be runnin' a court any longer," he stated bitterly. "He's too old and peevish that's whut ails him! Fur one, I'm certainly not never goin' to vote fur him again. Why, it's gettin' to be ez much ez a man's life is worth to stop that there spiteful old crank on the street and put a civil question to him that's whut's the matter!"
Miss Peckham on the other side of the stretcher, and without looking at the other women, asked: "Oughtn't he be took to the hospital? There's nobody here to take care of him but that fly-away young one." "I won't have him taken to a hospital!" cried Janice stormily. "You bring him right into the house " "Well, 'tain't fittin'," said Miss Peckham decidedly. "I guess both Mr.
"Flora," she exclaimed, "how came you here, and did you make this fire and fix the room for me?" "Yes, I made the fire," Flora replied, "and fixed up the things a little, hustlin' that young one's goods out of here; because it was not fittin' for you to be sleepin' with her. Mr. Guy was mad enough when he found it out." "Mr. Guy, Flora? How should he know of our sleeping "rrangements?"
"Who's your witness?" asked Slim, in his most judicial tones. "Bud Lane me an' him rode over to the weddin' together from the Lazy K, an' I was put out as not fittin' to be there, an' by that very man there that did the killin'." The punchers had to grin, in spite of the seriousness of the occasion. Buck appeared to be deeply hurt at the unceremonious way he had been left out at the feast.
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