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Updated: June 2, 2025
"What on 'arth's come over you?" exclaimed John, with the first throb of rousing indignation. "But if you ain't your own self no more, why, Miss Cox be it. 'T seems to me 's if I warn't my own self no more 's if I'd got into some un else, or 't least hedn't got my own ears on m' own head.
The recollection of all this the lesser and unspiritual maternal values, perchance, but essential surged over her with bitterness; she lost her poise, and fell a-bickering. "'Precious leetle lam'," she repeated, scornfully. "Precious he mus' hev been! Fur when ye lef him he hedn't a whole gyarmint ter his back, an' none but them that kivered him."
"Hit hain't like as if I was seekin' ter fo'ce ye ter do suthin' ye hedn't done afore," the persuasive voice reminded him, and again the snarling response growled out its displeasure. "No, an' ye hain't said nothin' cons'arnin' what ye knows erbout me, nuther.
He was hobbling by toward the wagon, and one of his short, crooked legs dragged. "Not much to look at, is he?" went on Stillwell. "Wal; I know it's natural thet we're all best pleased by good looks in any one, even a man. It hedn't ought to be thet way. Monty Price looks like hell.
I allow me 'n' yeow hedn't better say anythin' much more on ther subjeck, fur I allow we air bound to querril ef we dew;" and nothing that Merrill said could draw another word out of Aunt Ri in regard to Alessandro's death. But there was another subject on which she was tireless, and her speech eloquent. It was the kindness and goodness of the Cahuilla people.
Well, that gal I was one of the mourners, being my wife's friend well, that gal, though I hedn't, perhaps, oughter say lying in that casket, fetched all the way from some A1 establishment in Chicago, filled with flowers and furbelows didn't really seem to be of much account. Well, although my wife's friend, and me a mourner well, now, I was disappointed and discouraged."
'T war 'stonishin', kem ter think of it, how 'Fambly' hed the insurance ter grow up ter look like folks, let alone settin' out ter run fur office; an' ef God hedn't raised 'em up some mighty good frien's in this county, I reckon thar wouldn't be much o' 'Fambly' left.
She was red-headed, but her hair become her somehow when she curled 'n' frizzed it over a karosene lamp, 'n' then wound it round 'n' round her head like ropes o' carnelian. She hedn't any particular kind of a nose nor mouth nor eyes, but gorry! when she looked at yer, yer felt kind as if yer was turnin' to putty inside." "I know what yer mean," said Steve interestedly.
Why I luved that cuss like like " he hesitated for a simile "like my own son," he added, with the passing of one of his brood, and forthwith whacked the youngster for overturning the bait can. "Jes' like my own son. An' so I should still ef he hedn't done me dirt; ef he'd ben square. Now, you're square." "I try to be," returned Bernard, ravished by the tribute.
We couldn't budge 'em. They went on en' split round the rocks, en' the most of 'em was turned sharp to the left by a deep wash we hedn't seen hed no chance to see. "The other three boys Jimmy Vail, Joe Willis, an' thet little Cairns boy a nervy kid! they, with Cairns leadin', tried to buck thet herd round to the pocket. It was a wild, fool idee.
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