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Indeed, he had not left the fort above an hour when he turned savagely on the negro. "Look-ee here," he said, "if that's the way ye're a-going on, the sooner ye turns yer face and tramps back to the fort the better. When you were at Concord it done no harm to make as much noise as a jackass braying whenever you opened that mouth of yours, but it won't do in the forests.
Look-ee here, young feller, you jest quit it.... B'jing! here's my watch. You kin listen to it tick." The baby tried the watch on his toothless gums, found it not to his taste, and flung it from him with such vehemence that it would have suffered permanent injury but for the size and strength of the silver chain which attached it to Scattergood. The cries became more maddening.
I'm sure no one ever expressed a doubt as to the syndicate's finds and I " "But look-ee here, Mr. Gilderman," interrupted the prospector; "you've got to excuse me. I'm supposed to look into this thing myself, besides it's for the blamed fool's own benefit. Any fool can see that the deepest wash runs the other side of that dune, not this."
Is that a woman in breeches?" said one of them, pointing to Vassenka Veslovsky sitting in a side saddle. "Nay, a man! See how smartly he's going it!" "Eh, lads! seems we're not going to sleep, then?" "What chance of sleep today!" said the old man, with a sidelong look at the sun. "Midday's past, look-ee! Get your hooks, and come along!"
Concluding that it would be easier to ride the two sides of the triangle than the one over which they had come out, they headed for the valley at a sharp angle. As they rode, the keen eye of Jackson caught sight of a black object apparently struggling on the ground at the bottom of a little swale which made down in a long ribbon of green. "Look-ee yan!" he exclaimed.
He's one of the head guys in our union now. Mary she used to give us stuff to eat when dad was a-strikin' the last time." "An' look-ee," continued the boy, "right there next to the Martins' yer can see the old house where Adam Ward used to live before the Mill made him rich an' he moved to his big place up on the hill. I know 'cause I heard dad an' another man talkin' 'bout it onct.
To the mother she added, hurriedly, as if fearing a protest, "Please, Mrs. Whaley, let me help. I am so sorry I did not know before. Won't you forgive me and let me help you now?" "Gee!" exclaimed Bobby, who had opened the purse. "Look-ee, mom! Gee!" As one in a dream, the mother turned from the money in the boy's hand to Helen. "You ain't meanin', ma'am, for us to use all that?"
The peasants had all got up from the cart and were inquisitively and mirthfully staring at the meeting of the friends, making their comments on it. "They're pleased, too; haven't seen each other for a long while," said the curly-headed old man with the bast round his hair. "I say, Uncle Gerasim, if we could take that raven horse now, to cart the corn, that 'ud be quick work!" "Look-ee!
The mountaineer rubbed one huge hand over his stubbly chin, threw one of his long legs over the pommel of his saddle, and dangled a heavy cowhide shoe to and fro. "Would you mind tellin' me whut pay a member of the House of Legislatur' gits a day?" The Hon. Sam looked surprised. "I think about two dollars and a half." "An' his meals?" "No!" laughed Mr. Budd. "Well, look-ee here, stranger.
I was sure you would see the Mill." "An' look-ee, look-ee," shouted the boy, forgetting, in his quick excitement, to maintain this superior air, "look-ee, Mag! Come here, quick." With energetic gestures he beckoned his sister to his side. "Look-ee, right over there by that bunch of dust, see? It's our house where we live. That there's Tony's old place on the corner.
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