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Updated: May 9, 2025
Sometimes he would have her every day for several weeks, and that would be in the prime of the summer weather, when the harvest was drawing nigh, and the school had its long yearly holiday. Summer, the harvest "play," and Linty! oh, large bliss! my heart swells at the thought.
The house was old and low, having a small porch in front, but if it ever had seen paint, it did not show it at that time. It was a warm linty gray, the shingles of the old roof almost moss-covered. "The joke IS on me," said Kate. "I shall have no quarrel with the paint here, and will you look at that?" Adam looked where Kate pointed across the street, and nodded.
"I ken it's his wull," answered Cosmo: his master never took notice whether he spoke in broad Scotch or bastard English "I ken mears maun dee, but eh! SHE was sic a guid ane! Sir! I canna bide it." "Ye ken wha sits by the deein' sparrow?" said Mr. Simon, himself taking to the dialect. "Cosmo there was a better nor Grizzie, an' nearer to Linty a' the lang nicht.
Dully, patiently, he scraped linty grease from the drip-pan, gouged at the mud caked on the wheels. He used up many minutes in washing his hands; scoured them with gritty kitchen soap; rejoiced in hurting his plump knuckles. "Damn soft hands like a woman's. Aah!" At dinner, when his wife began the inevitable, he bellowed, "I forbid any of you to say a word about Paul!
Milt was realizing and hating himself for realizing that Bill's face was dirty, his hair linty, the bottoms of his trousers frayed masses of mud, while Bill chuckled: "I figured out maybe I could get a job here in a restaurant, and you and me could room together. I sold out my good will in the Old Home Lunch for a hundred bucks. I was going to travel swell, riding the cushions.
Then, down the entire length of the ridge the cotton-planter had followed, its two little wheels straddling the row, while the small bull-tongue in front opened the shallow furrow for the linty, furry, white seeds to fall in and be covered immediately by the mold-board behind.
Unseeing he went through prison corridors stinking of carbolic acid to a room lined with pale yellow settees pierced in rosettes, like the shoe-store benches he had known as a boy. The guard led in Paul. Above his uniform of linty gray, Paul's face was pale and without expression.
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