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I met a feller once who had been thar an' he said it wuz a whalin' big town, full uv all kinds uv strange people, an' hevin' an' inquirin' mind I like to see all kinds uv furriners an' size 'em up. Do you reckon, Paul, that New Or-lee-yuns is the biggest city in the world?" "Oh, no, Jim. There are many much larger cities in the old continents, Europe, Asia and Africa."
Devil Judd hardly ate anything, so embarrassed was he by the presence of so many "furriners" and by the white cloth and table-ware, and so fearful was he that he would be guilty of some breach of manners. Resolutely he refused butter, and at the third urging by Mrs. Crane he said firmly, but with a shrewd twinkle in his eye: "No, thank ye. I never eats butter in town.
"For the last time, Rapkin," he cried in despair, "do you mean to tell me there's no dinner ready?" "Oh," said Rapkin, "there's dinner right enough, and a lot o' barbarious furriners downstairs a cookin' of it that's what broke Maria's 'art to see it all took out of her 'ands, after the trouble she'd gone to." "But I must have somebody to wait," exclaimed Horace.
I'll be bound he's a good enough feller when ye come to know him, an' git over yer contempt for his idle ways. Very likely he draws, too an' plays the flute; most o' these furriners do. Come now, Flinders, look alive wi' the grub." When the stranger returned to the fire he spread his huge hands over it and rubbed them with apparent satisfaction.
The face of the country changed, the people changed in looks, manners and dress, and she shrank closer to Hale with an increasing sense of painful loneliness. These level fields and these farm-houses so strangely built, so varied in colour were the "settlemints," and these people so nicely dressed, so clean and fresh-looking were "furriners."
She had cried out impulsively to save Hale, but Dave would not understand. No, in his eyes she had been false to family and friends to the clan she had sided with "furriners." What would her father say?
I wonder what but then, them furriners are wonderful for findin' out concernin' ev'rythin'." She hugged her pulpy spelling book against her breast with a little shiver of determination. "I'm goin' to l'arn, too," she said with firm decision as she scrambled up the rough and rocky mountain path.
I guess the less any of us true blue Americans say 'bout flinging stones at furriners the safer 'twill be for all on us." But Mr. Wiggins continued his diatribe: "There ain't no denying it, the first people in town are down on the whole thing.
I got into a misunderstanding with the colonel about that lady; colonel allowed her and me was too thick, so me and him, begad, had a rough-and-tumble, and that's how I come by this here." He pointed to his empty eye-socket. "Pluggie was one of your furriners jest like Mex, but not so pooty." "If she was half as handsome as Mex," said Pierce, "I don't wonder that you gave your right eye for her."
On many of them the bark had been riddled from root to top, as by myriads of bullet-holes. In each hole had been cunningly stored away an acorn, the woodpeckers' granaries. "Look at thet, naow!" exclaimed the observant Aunt Ri; "an' thar's folk's thet sez dumb critters ain't got brains. They ain't noways dumb to each other, I notice; an' we air dumb aourselves when we air ketched with furriners.
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