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"Lor' bless yer, no, lydy," answered the old lady, quite unperturbed, "yesterday was the hanniversary of old Wattles's wedding-day, and they've been keepin' it up as usual. That's all."
When he had relieved himself without, enlightening Mr. Dootleby, Dick spoke again. "She ain't nobody's darter, ole gent, but he sez she's his gurl. She been keepin' comp'ny wid young Swiggsy, an' she wont promise not ter. Dat's de whole biznuss. De harder he walloped, de more she wouldn't promise." Mr. Dootleby felt in his arms the strength of a whole army corps.
"He treated her as mean as pusley," one woman said. "There he'd been keepin' company with poor Aggie three mortal years, comin' regular every Wednesday and Sunday night, and settin' up with her, and keepin' off other fellers." "I think he treated her awful mean," assented the other woman. "I don't know what I would have said if it had been my Mamie."
He hoped you was all well, and keepin' yer spirits up, Joan." "Poor sawl!" sighed Joan: "I 'spects he finds that's more than he can do." "Ah, you may well say that," replied Mrs. Tucker, casting a troubled look toward her daughter's altered face. "Adam's doin' purtty much the same as you be, Joan frettin' his insides out."
Trueman's wife thinks she is perfect, she has told me so time and agin thinks she hain't done anything wrong in upwards of a number of years. But she didn't say nothin' to this, only begun agin about the wickedness and immorality of my makin' riz biscuit that mornin', and the deep disgrace of Josiah Allen keepin' on with his work.
"An' he lef' me a shootin'-iron, in case of a fox, or a wolf, or suthin' kem along. 'Bout sunset the neighbors kem. An' till then I sot thar keepin' watch, an' a-viewin' the witch-face 'crost the Cove, plumb till the sun went down." She bowed her head again on her arm, and a momentary silence ensued.
Allen was in after mail, 'n' she said Brunhilde Susan was in bed, 'n' the cow was all milked for the night, 'n' her mind was easy over 'em both; 'n' Gran'ma Mullins was to the drug-store after some quinine to put on little Jane's thumb. She says this week as she has little Jane she 'll jus' cure her o' thumb-suckin' once an' f'r all time by keepin' it dipped in quinine.
"He says, 'You'll have yo' hands full. There's a number of young fellows hereabouts that you don't lay it over none in p'int of freshness or looks. "I says, 'Does she encourage any of 'em? "He says, 'Nope, she don't. Ain't I been tellin' you she's givin' her mind to keepin' house fo' her pore old father? "I says, 'If she don't encourage 'em none, she shore must disencourage 'em.
She and Stevie was to be here over two hours ago, and I can't imagine what's keepin' 'em." He insisted upon his visitor's remaining, although the latter, when he understood the situation, was reluctant to do so. "Caroline'll be real glad to see you, Jim, I know," the captain said. "And I want you to stay for my sake.
'Never did such a thing as that in my life afore, he muttered, as he went back to his van; 'to go and lose a bit o' paper with writing on it, d'reckly I got it, too; I'm afraid my head's a-leavin' me; they ain't keepin' company, that's plain. I made a mess o' that, or he wouldn't have wanted her direction. I saw what he was up to well, they'd make a good-looking pair.
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