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"Do you know that machine cost me twenty-five pounds?" I cried. "The jam'll wash off," said Berry. "You don't know how easily jam comes off. Why, I've known..." "If I thought you really had turned them on to the typewriter, I should never forgive you." "You oughtn't to say a thing like that, even in jest," said Berry; "it isn't Christian. I tell you for your good."
Sas'fras tea comes mighty handy with dandelions in the spring, an' them two'll carry us through April. Then comes wild lettice an' tansy-tea that's fur May. Blackberries is good fur June an' the jam'll take us through winter if Bull Run and Appomattox ain' too healthy.
Now that he knew the way, Casey had in mind a certain short-cut that would subtract two days from the round trip. He held up his hand, fingers spread, and got up. Then he thought of the threat and added one of his own. "I've got a God myself, Jim. You lie about that gold mine and the jam'll choke yuh to death. You can ask anybody." Casey went out and straightway packed for the journey.
Baron Courbertin threw his arms about him, crying, "As sure as God made little apples, thou art a man!" Tommy's face was white, and he sought refuge in speech from the silence which settled down. "I'll deny I lift a guid paddle, nor that my wind is fair; but gin ye gang a tithe the way the next jam'll be on us. For my pairt I conseeder it ay rash. Bide a wee till the river's clear, say I."
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