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"Darn yer, old Jim Sykes, you let me be, or I'll " the boy began, but when he saw his captor was not Jim Sykes, but a tall, fine-looking man, wearing a soldier's uniform, he changed his tone, and standing still, answered civilly: "I thought you was Jim Sykes, the biggest bully in town, who is allus hectorin' us boys.
After which he began to bluster, as is the manner of cowards. "Pooty thing, city gals comin' hectorin' round with their airs an' " "Shut the drawer!" said Hildegarde, quietly.
"Didn't take Abe long to git to braggin' an' drinkin' an' naggin' an' hectorin' everything, 'mos', 'cept fightin'. Nobody ever drawed Abe Shivers into a fight. I don't know as he was afeerd; looked like Abe was a-havin' sech a tarnation good time with his devilmint he jes didn't want to run no risk o' havin' hit stopped. An' sech devilmint! Hit ud take a coon's age, I reckon, to tell ye.
"All Marthy's fault, hain't it? Kind of a mean disposition, hain't she?" "No sich thing, Scattergood, and you know it dum well. There didn't use to be a sweeter-dispositioned girl in the state than Marthy.... Somethin's jest went wrong. They's times when I git mad and it all looks to be her fault, and then I ketch my own self startin' some hectorin' meanness.
That all comes o' my drivin' by the store so fast on account o' the boys hectorin' of me, so 't when I got to the turn I was so kind of het up I jogged right along the straight road. Haste makes waste 's an awful good motto. Pile out, young ones! It's only half a mile from here to the Falls, 'n' you'll have to get there on Shank's mare!"
"I oughter been sati'fied with all I got, stiddier hectorin' other folks till they 'ain't got no heart ter hold on ter what they been at sech trouble ter git," he said, as he turned out the horse and strode gloomily toward the house with the saddle over his arm.
"It makes my head ache to study," said Jack. "Perhaps your head is weak, Jack," suggested his father, slyly. "More than likely," said Rachel, approvingly. So it was decided that Jack should go to school. "I'll get even with Aunt Rachel," thought he. "She's always talking against me, and hectorin' me. See if I don't." An opportunity for getting even with his aunt did not immediately occur.
But I say, Mattie, you don't want nobody arter you do you now? Mat. I don't know what you mean by that, Bill. Bill. You don't want a father do you now? Do she, Susan? Sus. We want no father a hectorin' here, Bill. You 'ain't seen one about, have you? Bill. I seen a rig'lar swell arter Mattie, anyhow. Mat. What do you mean, Bill? Bill.
"Yes," said her husband, glad of any concession, "and they ah' good folks. And Clem's as happy as a bud with 'em, you can see that." "Oh, she was always happy enough, if that's all you want. I presume she was happy with that hectorin' old thing that fooled her out of her money." "I ha'n't ever regretted that money, Rebecca," said Claxon, stiffly, almost sternly, "and I guess you a'n't, eitha."
Buckheath glanced angrily and contemptuously into the stupid, fatuous countenance above him; he appeared to curb with some difficulty the disposition to retort in kind. Instead, he returned, sarcastically: "The fellers around town say you won't keep anything but gals because nothin' but gals would put up with your hectorin' 'em, and crowdin' ten in a room that was intended for four.
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