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"'Oh, there's many a true word said in joke, says I. "'Thrue for you, Paddy, says he. "'Oh, by gor, the butther's comin' out o' the stirabout in airnest now, says he; 'you gommoch, says he, 'sure I told you before that's France and, sure, they're all furriners there, says the captain. "'Well, says I, 'and how do you know but I'm as good a furriner myself as any o' thim?
But Chad had found out where the little girl went to church, and every Sunday, despite Caleb Hazel's protest, he would slip into the Episcopal church, with a queer feeling little Calvinist of the hills that he was that it was not quite right for him even to enter that church; and he would watch the little girl come in with her family and, after the queer way of these "furriners," kneel first in prayer.
I looked around with divining eye for the sleeping arrangements soon to come, which sometimes are embarrassing to "furriners" who are unable to grasp at once the primitive unconsciousness of the mountaineers and, in consequence, accept a point of view natural to them because enforced by architectural limitations and a hospitality that turns no one seeking shelter from any door.
A giant mountaineer stood on the bank above him, with a Winchester in the hollow of his arm. "How are you?" The giant's heavy eyes lifted quickly, but he spoke to the girl. "You go on home what you doin' hyeh gassin' with furriners!" The girl shrank to the bushes, but she cried sharply back: "Don't you hurt him now, Dad. He ain't even got a pistol. He ain't no " "Shet up!"
"What business is it of ours if them furriners take to slaughterin' themselves?" he wanted to know.
What did these blanked "furriners" have against them anyhow? They couldn't run their country not much. Pretty soon there came a shrill whistle far down-town then another and another.
Now, brother, I'm a separATE man, an' I don't inQUIZite into no man's business but you ax me straight an' I tell ye straight. Ole Tom Perkins kin trade with furriners, fer he have l'arned their ways. You watch ole Tom!
I say: I'd give something to know where you ignorant furriners come by this precious pre-War stuff." But without waiting to be denied this information, Mr. Wertheimer continued: "Going on the evidence of your looks and temper, you've been down to Tilbury Docks this afternoon to see Karslake and Sonia off."
You know how he hates furriners, 'n' whut he would do ef he happened to run across this furriner atter he has been drinkin'. I'm a-meddlin' because I hev told him that I am goin' to take keer o' ye, 'n' I mean to do it-ef ye hates me fer it. I'm a-watchin' ye, Easter," he continued, " 'n' I want ye to know it. I knowed the furriner begun comm' here cause ye air not like gals in the settlemints.
He 'lowed he was a-goin' to fight cyard-playin' and dancin' ez long ez he hed breath." Yes; 'n' thar's whar Sherd air a fool. I'm ag'in furriners, too, but thar hain't no harm in dancin, n' thar's goin' to be dancin' at this weddin' ef I'm alive."
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