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Updated: June 1, 2025
"Jest give me time," beamed Captain Leezur, sounding mellifluously, "'n' I can row any Pointer ashore in an argyment 't ever was born yit. I takes a moderate little spall to dew it in. Forced-to-go " "Ye be a lazy, yarn-reelin' set, all on ye," said Captain Rafe, grinning with affection and delight on the group. "I'm going to have ye all posted and put on the teown!"
"Wal, neow," said Captain Leezur, my chiefest admirer, "ef you ain't a case to describe anything in natur'! Ef I had you areound I shouldn't never want no dagarrier of a sick chicken, for you'd call 'em right up afore me!" I murmured my low thanks, blushing as usual under flattery. Vesty was talking brilliantly with some of the company, quite away from me.
"If you want to talk about the weather," rippled the girl's voice, quite gently, "why don't you go and sit on the log with Captain Leezur? He rolled down another this morning." "I am going," I sighed. "What do you think he would tell me about the weather?" "What we all say: 'The wind's canting in from the west, and you'll see this fog hop."
Why, dodrabbit ye, Leezur!" said this native Artichoke, "ye never done an ongodly thing in yer life 'cept, maybe," he added, "to cuss a little when ye was fishin' for the bucket." "'Specially," said Captain Leezur intelligently, "when the women folks has been thar afore ye, r'ilin' the water and jabbin' of her furder deown."
"D'ye ever have the toothache?" said Captain Leezur kindly; "ef ye do, come right straight deown to me, and ef she 's home you shall have her" and he exhibited beamingly that talismanic little bone cleft from the forepaw of a deer, "Ye pick yer teeth with 'er and ye're sartin never to have the toothache, but ef you've got a toothache, she'll cure ye.
Captain Leezur has not been housed through icy snow-fall and winter blast! nay, he has been ever there, as when I left him sitting on the log, beaming, tranquil heir of eternity. "Ilein' my saw, ye see," said he, springing up and grasping my hand; "ef I remembers right, I was settin' here ilein' my saw, when ye come and bid me good-by?" "You were."
"What is the weather going to be, Captain Leezur?" I said, following his gaze skyward. "Wal, I put on my new felts," said he, indicating without any false assumption of modesty those chaste sepulchres enclosing his feet "hopin' 'twould fetch a rain! said I didn't care ef I did spot my new felts ef 'twould only fetch a rain!
"Wal neow," said Captain Leezur seriously, "my experience has been, there ain't nothin' so onpleasant, when ye're eatin' picked-up codfish, 's to feel the rufe o' yer mouth all runnin' in afeoul along o' a mess o' bones.
"'S I sums it up, ef ye want to stay here and ketch the last fish 't God ever made, 'ste'd o' bracin' up and mendin' yer roads and takin' yer part in a shyer town, ye must do so." "Sho!" said Captain Leezur, regarding him with wistful compassion; "I hain't seen as fish was gittin' skeerce."
"Leezur's my name; and neow I'll tell ye how ye can all'as remember it; it's jest like all them great discoveries, it's dreadful easy when it's once been thought on. Leezur leezure see? Leezure means takin' things moderate, ye know, kind o' settin' areound in the shank o' the evenin' Leezur lee-zure see!" Oh, how he beamed! The systems of Newton and Copernicus seemed dwarfed in comparison.
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