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Lizzie Bean was not yet an enthusiast for the simple life, that was sure. She and Mother Wit had gotten better acquainted during the preparations for the noonday meal. "I ain't never been crazy about the country myself," admitted Liz. "Cows, and bugs, and muskeeters, and frogs, don't seem so int'restin' to me as steam cars, and pitcher shows, and sody-water fountains, and street pianners.
Ever cruise around much on them Long Island branch lines? Say, it must be int'restin' sport, providin' you don't care whether you get there this week or next. I missed one connection by waitin' for the brakeman to call out the change.
Always calc'late to keep one ahead. Soon's one leg wears out and I put on the spare one, I set to work fashionin' another, to have by me. Always manage to figger some improvement." "More int'restin' than cuttin' out ax handles," said Scattergood. The deacon looked his scorn.
I'd the boyish idea that it 'ld be int'restin' t' build a house on the ice. There was no snow; stones were handier 'n timber. I carted the stones here on my sled. I built 'em in a circle. Snow came, an' I finished the buildin' with snow. You c'n sure guess the rest." "Yes, course I can," said Rube. "When the snow an' ice melted, the stones sank straight down, an' fell to the bottom in a ring.
Take Joey now, well along towards thirty, so I finds out later, but still untagged and unchosen. Maybe she likes it better that way. Who knows? And, as Nutt Hamilton has suggested, it would be int'restin' to see her and Sukey lined up together. That ain't exactly why I'm so early showin' up at the Ellins' house the night of the musical not altogether.
"Say, I'll allow the gold racket's mighty int'restin', but it makes me tired this weather. You was speakin' 'draw' " "Sure," responded Bill amiably. "We're four here, if you fancy a hand. Minky?" The storekeeper nodded, and promptly produced cards and 'chips. And in five minutes the game was in progress.
However he decided quickly, it must be done, so he said, diplomatically, "This is awful int'restin', Miss Ames, and I'm just dead sure and certain Mr. Stone'd think so, too. Let's go out and get it off where he c'n hear it. What say?" The boy had risen and was edging toward the door.
"Didn't the deakin have a chance to try him?" "He had all the chance he ast fer," replied David. "Fact is, he done most of the sellin', as well 's the buyin', himself." "How's that?" "Wa'al," said David, "it come about like this: After I'd got the hoss where I c'd handle him I begun to think I'd had some int'restin' an' valu'ble experience, an' it wa'n't scurcely fair to keep it all to myself.
What I'm a learnin' nowadays makes me know that a feller can make any old study int'restin' if he jes' sets down an' looks at it the right way." "That's what Gus and I think. There are studies we don't like very much, but we can make ourselves like them for we've got to know a lot about them." "Grammar, for instance," said Gus. "Sure.
"Never mind, you can start another," said Houston. "Yes, Billy, give us another," chimed in the boys. "Go ahead, pardner," added Morgan, "spin us a yarn, that's what we came for." "I was only tellin' the boys about the old days when I came out to the mines, and for the first few years after," Billy began. "Those must have been interesting times," said Houston. "Int'restin'? I should say so!
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