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Indeed, you can judge whether this buildin' has advantages for bein' lit up, when I tell you that it has 20,000 incandescent and 3000 ark lights. I hearn a bystander a-tellin' this, and sez Josiah, "I can't imagine what a ark light is Noah couldn't had a light so bright as that is. But," he sez, "mebby the light shines out as big as the ark did over the big water." And I spoze mebby that is it.
Hearn, a little discontentedly, "I think you are growing rather quiet and distraite of late. When have I heard one of your genuine, mirthful laughs?" With a sudden wonder my mind took up his question. When had I heard her laugh, whose contagious joyousness was so infectious that I, too, had laughed without knowing why?
"'Creation! sais I, 'if this don't beat gineral trainin'. I have heerd in my time, broken French, broken Scotch, broken Irish, broken Yankee, broken Nigger, and broken Indgin; but I have hearn two pure genewine languages to-day, and no mistake, rael rook, and rael Britton, and I don't exactly know which I like wus. It's no use to stand talkin' to this critter. Good-bye, sais I.
And one night I hearn the most masterly and convincin' arguments brung up on both sides arguments calculated to make a bystander wobble first one way and then the other, with the strength and power of 'em. It wuz at a church social held to Miss Lums, and a number of us had got there early, and this subject wuz debated on before the minister got there.
He grinned as he resolved that some day he would tell the fellow this as a pleasing gibe; but the thought was arrested by the sound of his own name. "Waal, sir," said the dealer, pausing in shuffling the cards, "I s'pose ye hev all hearn 'bout Walter Wyatt's takin' off." "An' none too soon, sartain." A sour visage was glimpsed beneath the wide brim of the speaker's hat.
He also warned us of Japan, the new Japan though not in a friendly way; he would have been glad to see Western civilisation submerged by the yellow races. Shy, complex, sensuous, Hearn is the real Lafcadio Hearn in these letters. Therein we discover the tenderness, the passion, the capacity for friendship, the genuine humanity absent in his books.
'Mebbe they will, I ses, 'but I don't b'lieve none of it, I ses; 'an' b'jiminey, I ses back t' 'um, 'mebbe your fellers 'll all run like hell when they onct hearn a gun, I ses. He larfed. Well, they didn't run t' day, did they, hey? No, sir! They fit, an' fit, an' fit." His homely face was suffused with a light of love for the army which was to him all things beautiful and powerful.
I guessed I wouldn't wander around none and run no chances of getting took up by him. So I was getting ready to lay down on top of a level pile of boards and go to sleep when I hearn a curious kind of noise a way off, like it must be at the edge of town. It sounded like quite a bunch of cattle might shuffling along a dusty road.
The cowboy blew rings of smoke, watching them spread and dissolve in the evening air. "Had a hoss onct," he began slowly, "ornery, glass-eyed, she-colt that got mixed up in a bob-wire fence. Seein' as she was like to make the buzzards happy 'most any day, I took to nussin' her. Me, Joe Scott, eh? And a laugh comin'. Well, the boys joshed mebby you hearn some of 'em call me Doc. That's why.
Likely you've hearn tales, an' likely they was mostly lies. You see, it was this-a-way: Me an' my wife owned land j'inin'. The Turkey Track Minin' Company they found coal on it, an' was wishful to buy. Her an' me wasn't wed then, but we was about to be, an' we j'ined in fer to sell the land an' go West."
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