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I took her up befo' me on de hoss, an' we started fur home, 'Pears like de road from Platte City to de Leavenworth ferry's jus' 'bout de lonesomes' in dis yeah worl', an' I hadn't trabelled more'n five mile 'fore I knew I was follered.
Just as soon as this surveying business is over I am going to have a glorious hunt. If only you were here we would start out by our lonesomes and have all the adventures we ever talked about. Probably Chris will go with me. I haven't quite the pluck to try it alone, as I know you would do in my place. I may brace up to it, though. Dad has given me permission to do just as I please.
"That's just what'll block the game, I'm afraid. I don't want to, either. None of the boys'll want to. It'll mean going up there and baching, six or seven months of the year, by our high lonesomes. We'll have to fulfill the requirements, if we start in because them pilgrims'll be standing around like dogs at a picnic, waiting for something to drop so they can grab it and run.
But, for a long time, Jerry, under the pink and white cover, blinked at the little circle of brightness reflected from the electric light outside, trying hard not to wish she had Pepperpot with her "to keep away the lonesomes." The night sounds of the city hummed in eerie cadences in her ears.
"Lonesome?" repeated Alberdina, not moving from her ridiculous trunk. "I no time haf had for lonesomes. Many peoples to dis house come crazy peoples men and vimmen, hein? They haf my moneys took already yesterday! Ach, Gott! They haf me tied wid ropes. They have nogged and nogged in the night times. Dos vimmens, I hear the boice already yet. I no lig dees place. I to my home go bag to-day.
"No, we can't go really!" protested Dunk, holding back. "We just came out for a glass of soda," insisted Andy, "and we've got to get right back!" "Oh, yes! That's all right." "Soda!" "Listen to him!" "Regular little goody-goody boys!" "They were trying to sneak off by themselves and have a good time by their lonesomes!"
"Grandmother!" cried Mary Jane eagerly, "may I have any ones? May I pick them out? May I have these funny little ones? These that are all by their lonesomes in the corner?" Grandfather and Grandmother both looked to where Mary Jane pointed. "The ducks!" they exclaimed together. "They came out all right!" Then Grandmother added, "To be sure you may have them, Mary Jane.
There's some things I just can't stummick, an' meetin' that feller before the very last minute I got to do it, is one of 'em." "Of course, of course! You sha'n't meet him until the very last minute. Though he's a mighty nice chap, my nephew Peter is a mighty nice chap." "He must be! We're both of us a mighty nice pair, ain't we? Him goin' one way an' me goin', another way, all by our lonesomes!"