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"Do you lose cows every day?" "Cows! What ye talkin' abaout?" "Why, you said pound. That's for lost cows and dogs, isn't it?" Cap'n Lem stared a moment, and then cackled merrily. "So 'tis, some places," he answered. "Geewhitaker! I must tell Lucil that!" His eyes disappeared. When he could open them again he went on: "I never give a thought to that afore.
Why did Thinkright ask me to get the best room ready, then? If a monkey comes into this house I go out of it, and I stay out." "'Tain't a monkey, no, 'tain't," returned Cap'n Lem tearfully but pacifically; "but I made the best joke, Lucil, if I do say it. I'm laughin' yit. Ye couldn't 'preciate it till ye see her, then I'll tell ye, an if yew don't bust your sides" "Her?
"The daughter of a great King should hide her head in shame if she admits any other thought." As Cap'n Lem's team drew deliberately up the hill to the house, his daughter-in-law and grandchild came out on the doorstep. "Hello, Lucil; hello, Minty," he cried.
"Do you mean to say that everybody would get up here if it weren't for me?" asked Sylvia disconcerted. "Wall, Thinkright's allers done his chores afore he sits down with yer; but Lucil, she's kind o' cawtage folks-y in her feelin's. When my woman was alive I allers did git my own breakfast anyway, and let her lay as long as she wanted, and so I do Lucil.
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