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I cain' a-walk withouten I stum-bils! Then le'ss go on Keep walkin' on! These times is sow'owful, an' I am pow'owful Sick an' fo'lawn!" She heard a step upon the path behind her, and, turning, saw a white-wrapped figure coming toward her. "Mamie?" she called. "Hush!" Mamie lifted a warning hand. "The windows are open," she whispered. "They might hear you!" "Why haven't you gone to bed?"
Hedrick sat up, his eyes closed, his features contorted as with agony, and chanted, impromptu: "Slush, slush, luv-a-ly, slush! Le'ss all go a-swimmin' in a dollar's worth o' mush. Slush in the morning, slush at night, If I don't get my slush I'm bound to get tight!" "Hedrick!" said his mother. "Altogether I should say that Mr.
"Well, well," sez Josiah, "le'ss git along unless you want to stay here and preach all day on the sidewalk." "But," sez I, "I'm not preachin', Josiah, I'm eppisodin'." "Well, there is a time for eppisodin' and a time for common sense, and le'ss git along." He acted real grumpy, I guess he'd thought more on me, if I had pretended I thought his life wuz worth double mine.
And all the rest joined in. The other scholars in the room came crowding up to the stove. "Le'ss see it!" they demanded of Comfort. They teased her to let them take it. "Lemme take it for just a minute. I'll give it right back, honest," they begged. But Comfort was firm about that; she would not let that ring go from her own two fingers for one minute.
"Come," said she, "don't you mind anything about 'em, Comfort. Le'ss go in the school-house. I've got a splendid Baldwin apple in my dinner-pail, and I'll give you half of it. They're mad 'cause they haven't got any gold ring." "I have got a gold ring," sobbed Comfort: "Honest and true, Black and blue, Lay me down and cut me in two."
That was the awful truth-testing formula of the village children. "Course you have," said Matilda, with indignant backward glances at the others. "Le'ss go and get that Baldwin apple." Comfort went with Matilda; but it took more than a Baldwin apple to solace her; and her first day at school was a most unhappy one.
"So am I. Ef you ain't in a hurry, le'ss walk along together." "All right, sir," answered Ben. "I think I know what's comin," he said to himself. "You're stayin' at your Uncle Job's, ain't you?" asked Deacon Pitkin. "Yes, sir." "You don't calc'late to keep on there, do you?" "No, sir; he would like to have me stay and work in the shop, but I don't fancy shoemaking." "Jest so.
"I felt of my pocket after I got back to school yesterday, after we'd been up to the old Loomis house, and I couldn't find the ring." "My!" said Matilda. Comfort gave a stifled sob. Matilda turned short around with a jerk. "Le'ss go up that road and hunt again," said she; "there's plenty of time before the bell rings. Come along, Comfort Pease."
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