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The boat lies southwest of the island and you are taking us due north. Turn about and take us to our boat instantly." "I am taking you to where I am going to land you, all right," the sailor replied gruffly. "You have got to learn that you can't come foolin' in my business without getting yourselves into trouble. I'm goin' to learn you."
"And I'll tell yer more 'n all," said Andy; "I specs you'd better be making tracks for dem hosses, mighty sudden, too, -for I hearn Missis 'quirin' arter yer, so you've stood foolin' long enough."
I ain't no liar and my wife ain't neither." "When will she come back, Captain Mike?" asked Madge in a friendly tone, hoping the title of "captain" would soften the surly sailor. "She's not comin' back," the man replied impatiently. "I've got to go to my dinner, and I ain't goin' to answer no more questions. Don't you come foolin' around this way any more; my old woman don't like it.
"Don't you come foolin' about me you knows right well I called you, and you knows, too, you almost cried, and told me to clear out, and let you git an hour's sleep; for by the Lord you thought Archer and I was made of steel! you couldn't and you wouldn't and now you wants to know the reason why you warn't along with us!"
"I expect you're going to tell me now that Sanson T. Wrangler got foolin' around in some low down gamblin' saloon and lost that pile of dollars over a game of poker. What?" "No," continued Isa, "that wasn't the way of it; though I allow he was in Brierley's saloon Saturday night, boastin' to his friends about how he'd rounded up the cash, and had locked it away in his iron safe back of the store.
Do I look like I was rollin' in wealth?" "Then a five dollar bill means something to you, eh?" The shiftless man opened his eyes widely. "Does it? Say, I ain't had a fiver in my fist fer a month, two months! Farmin' don't pay, an' it ain't easy to git work outside, the season's been that poor. If you " "Tell me all you know, and perhaps I'll give you five dollars." "Ain't foolin'?" "No.
My bedchamber is down the hall there, and this has been my lounging room. Of course, I had my meals in the dining-room my after-the-theater suppers, you might say. It's been good fun, foolin' the servants. I hope you don't mind my fakin' grub from your larder, kid. I used to sit around, unbeknownst to the niggers, and listen to them talk about spirits and ghosts and all that sort of thing.
"We all were jest a foolin', Matt," muttered one. "That's alright," returned the big fellow; "But you'd better tie up again and go back into the house and dance a while longer. Folks might think you was scared if you was to leave so soon." Not until the party was breaking up, and he saw Sammy in the doorway, did Young Matt go back to the house.
"You'd better keep those hands up," he went on quickly, as he saw the two rascals making a move as if to start something. "They'll keep 'em up all right enough," broke in Rawlinson. "I reckon you know me," he went on sternly. "And I'll stand for no foolin'." "We haven't been doing anything wrong," came from Levine, lamely. "Oh, no! Of course not!" said Allen sarcastically.
"You ain't foolin' none?" Then, as though realizing his own weakness, he began to bluster. "Cos I ain't takin' no foolin' in a racket o' this sort. An' any feller thinks he ken fool me'll sure hate hisself when I'm through with him." A mild snicker greeted his "big talk," and the boy flushed hotly.
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