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Updated: May 11, 2025
But mebbe ye doesn't get the same kind o' newspapers which we poor folks gets reg'ler weekly penny lists o' murders, soocides, railway haccidents, burgul'ries, fires, droppin's down dead suddint, struck by lightnin' and collapsis, with remedies pervided for all in the advertisements invigoratin' to both old and young, bone and sinew, brain and body, whether it be pills, potions, tonics, lotions, ointment or min'ral waters.
I saw Bob Turner go past, quite a spell ago, and he was whistlin' like lightnin'. And I heard you say, more'n once, 't you 'hadn't no man to boss you you could do as you pleased." "So I can when when g-g-gr-gramma ain't r-r-round," replied he, so meekly that Alfaretta relented.
I say we can supply all the folks that's nec'sary. I've got fourteen in my own family. S'pose ye lived on a tremendous sidehill that reached clear to New York City, so ye could git on a sled an' scoot off like a streak o' lightnin'. Do ye think ye'd be any happier? Do ye think ye'd chop any more wood er raise a bigger crop o' potatoes? S'pose ye could scoot yer crops right down t' Albany in a day.
"An' is there any difference between this hero Whistlin' Dan an' a mad dog?" Still they were mute. "I tell you, boys, we got a better chance of dodgin' lightnin' an' puttin' a bloodhound off our trail than we have of gettin' rid of this Whistlin' Dan. An' when he catches up with us well, all I'm askin' is that you remember what he done to them four dollars before they hit the dust?"
"Might as well think o' goin' to hell an' back ag'in," said Solomon. "Since Bunker Hill the British are like a lot o' hornets. I run on to one of 'em to-day. He fired at me an' didn't hit a thing but the air an' run like a scared rabbit. Could 'a' killed him easy but I kind o' enjoyed seein' him run. He were like chain lightnin' on a greased pole you hear to me."
"'Yea, Mountain Tom, said ole Bill, 'I'm here. You an' me have got a long reckonin' to settle now. "The villain at first turned as pale as a skewer; but he seemed to regain his courage, and exclaimed, "'It won't take us long to settle up, "And, quick as lightnin', he drew his knife, an' made a pass at Bill. "But he had got the wrong buck by the horn.
I'd have swapped my horse and buggy for Noah's Ark that night and wouldn't have asked any boot neither. Did you see Mullet's bridge? Elnathan says he cal'lates he's got willow kindlin' enough to last him all summer. Ready split too the lightnin' attended to that. Lute Rogers don't talk about nothin' else.
"That ain't the same stuff," Joe said, with high disdain, almost contempt. "Wire lightnin' and sky lightnin' ain't no more alike than milk's like whisky. Well, say that science did make up a batch of sky lightnin' but I ain't givin' in it can be done how air they goin' to git up to the clouds, how're they goin' to make it do the bustin' at the right time?" "That's more than I can tell you, Joe.
But it was five long miles to that hotel from the Wellmouth Centre station. Their progress so far had been slow enough. Now they had stopped altogether. A flash of light showed above the top of the carriage boot. "Mercy on us!" cried Aunt Thankful. "Is that lightnin'? All we need to make this complete is to be struck by lightnin'. No, 'tain't lightnin', it's just the lantern.
"Come and look at it," he said encouragingly. "They're beautiful in this part of the country. Come and watch it." "I'll not watch it!" cried Peg. "Shut it out!" Once more the young man closed the curtains. Peg looked at him and said in an awe-struck voice: "They say if ye look at the sky when the lightnin' comes ye can see the Kingdom of Heaven.
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