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Then he hastened back to the fire and said: "Le's see them letters." A pine-knot had been thrown on the fire to make a bright blaze, by the light of which Si was laboriously fumbling over the letters.
"I'm beat out," she acknowledged, with a wistful look at him, half deprecating humility. "I guess I'll poke off to bed." "Yes," said Tenney, "le's go." At that minute there was a little waking call from the bedroom off the sitting-room. Tenney gave her a startled glance. "Why," he said, "you got him in there?"
Didn't I say, no longer ago than last night, that for a man that was a gentleman all the time and every way you took him, give me Arkansas? I'll leave it to any gentleman here if them warn't the very words I used. Come, now, Mr. Arkansas, le's take a drink le's shake hands and take a drink. Come up everybody! It's my treat. Come up, Bill, Tom, Bob, Scotty come up.
She wouldn't want to have to entertain both Eddie and Griffin, and Griffin 's her guest; and besides " "You're getting all tangled up. If I was to let you go on you'd trip over a long word and bust your dome. Come on. We've done enough cleaning. Le's hike. Come on up to the house and help me on my bobs. I got a new scheme for pivoting the back sled.... You just wait till to-night.
I saw him a-givin' 'em something. He's tryin' to git away. Le's ketch him." At the word the boys made a rush for the man who was quietly walking off. As they ran they threw stones, which went with astonishing precision and force. One of them struck the man on the head and felled him. Then the boys jumped on him and began pounding and kicking him.
But, w'at you wan' it fer?" answered Aunt Connie, smiling down at the little girl whom she loved so dearly. "It's a secret, Aunt Connie! I want to give it away, and I don't want to tell even my mother until well," and Sylvia hesitated a moment, and then continued, "until next week. Then I will tell her, and you too." "Dat's right, Missy. I'll make yo' de finest cake I knows how. Le's see!
If we was to give both our shares to him NOW it wouldn't make no difference after the row and the way we've served him. Shore's you're born, he'll turn State's evidence; now you hear ME. I'm for putting him out of his troubles." "So'm I," says Packard, very quiet. "Blame it, I'd sorter begun to think you wasn't. Well, then, that's all right. Le's go and do it."
I guess they expect to make enough, take it all together." Dilly walked on, quite bewildered. She had lost her fine, joyous carriage; her shoulders were bent, and her feet shuffled, in a discouraged fashion, over the unlovely bricks. Molly kept the lead, with unconscious superiority. "Le's go into the store now," she said, "an' swap off the eggs.
After we had traveled about two days we came to a belt of country where there were wild turkeys in great numbers, and on the morning of the third day out, Uncle Kit called me early, saying: "Come Willie, jump up now, an' le's go an' see if we can't git a wild turkey for breakfast." He had heard the turkeys that morning and knew which direction to go to find them.
"Le's go back this way, so they won't catch her," cautioned Bobaday. The dog began to bark. Robert and Corinne moved away with the docile little child between them. At the barking of the dog one or two other figures appeared behind the tent. Fairy Carrie in her spangled dress was running between Robert and Corinne into the dark.
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