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Birt was the eldest son, and his mother had only his work to offer in payment. The proposition always took the tanner in what he called a "jubious time." Spring is the season for stripping the trees of their bark, which is richer in tannin when the sap flows most freely, and the mule was needed to haul up the piles of bark from out the depths of the woods to the tanyard.
See, if I got to turn roun', an' foller the main track back agen to the Cane-grass Swamp, an' take the Nalrookar track from there, I won't fetch the station much short o' fifty mile; an' there ain't a middlin' camp the whole road. Everythin' et right into the ground. Starve a locust. 'Sides, I'm jubious about the Convincer Sand-hill, even with half a load. Bullocks too weak."
"Dem fellers laff fit to bus' deirselfs, an' say, 'Hi dar! wha' dat fine 'coon dawg gwine fer now? "I say, 'Him gwine fer a 'coon, gen'l'men, he suttinly am. Yo' see, I jes nacherly 'bleeged ter say so. Same time, I kin' er jubious.
"The Far-downer got at you that trip, Collins," remarked Mosey, seeking to retrieve his dignity by turning his back on the performance. "He seen you comin'. Say, ole son how'd you like to swap back?" "I felt sort o' jubious, on'y I did n't wanter say nothink." "Collar the horse quick!" suggested Dixon. "Nail him now, or you'll never ketch him." "No great hurry," I muttered, dismounting.
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