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Updated: July 23, 2025
But evidently the girl was not interested by his praise of the art-life of European capitals or their historical associations; she cut short his disquisition: "See here! When I first seed you an' knew you was raised in Boston, an' had lived in New York, I jest thought you no account for comin' to this jumpin'-off place.
"'Twar jes' the dep'ty critter, Clem Tweed," explained Medora, "mighty joki-fied, an' he 'peared ter be middlin' drunk, an' though he said su'thin' 'bout exemptions he 'lowed ez we-uns lived at the eend o' the world." Her mother-in-law suddenly lowered the apron from her face. "'The jumpin'-off place, war what Clem Tweed called it!" she interpolated with a fiery eye of indignant reminiscence.
But this hyeh Pitchstone hole, if Willomene had went down into that well, I'll tell yu', that you may judge. "She seen the trail a-drawin' nearer and nearer the aidge, between the timber and the jumpin'-off place, and she seen how them little loose stones and the crumble stuff would slide and slide away under the hawss's feet.
"Wal, Ord's the jumpin'-off place," he said, presently. "Sure you've heerd of the Big Bend country?" "I sure have, an' was makin' tracks fer it," replied the stranger. Fletcher turned toward a man in the outer edge of the group. "Knell, come in heah."
It doan seems nat'ral to me fo' de Lo'd to let King George lose a good an' beau'ful country, an' den gib him sich a jumpin'-off place as dis instead. An', chile, I doan believe dat de Lo'd ever meant yo' to come here." "Why, Mammy? Do I look any the worse for it?" "Yo' couldn't look worse, Missie Jean, not if yo' tried ebber so hard."
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