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He presently began a long and intricate denunciation of the commander of the forces. "Mebbe, it wa'n't all his fault not all together. He did th' best he knowed. It's our luck t' git licked often," said his friend in a weary tone. He was trudging along with stooped shoulders and shifting eyes like a man who has been caned and kicked. "Well, don't we fight like the devil?
"Not one leetle mite, you don't!" assented her host, promptly and cordially. "I was beginning to think mebbe I did!" persisted the injured lady. "Everybody knows," protested the woodsman, "as how what you don't know, Mrs. Gammit, ain't hardly wuth knowin'." "O' course, that's puttin' it a leetle too strong, Mr. Barron," she answered, much mollified.
They admired Paul and had a deep affection for him, but they thought that their little joke might keep him nearer to the earth when he was in a dangerous Indian country. "Mebbe he thinks Alfred the Great an' his Mogul Tartars hev come an' took it away," whispered Shif'less Sol. Then Paul held up his hand. "Feelin' o' the wind," said Shif'less Sol.
"Mebbe I would," Uncle Matthew replied. "Though sometimes I think I'm not the sort that has adventures, for there's men in the world would find something romantic wherever they went, and I daresay if Lord Byron were living here in Ballyards, he'd have the women crying their eyes out for him. That was a terrible romantic man, John! Lord Byron! A terrible man for falling in love, God bless him!..."
It's mebbe a wakeness on ma pairt, but I whiles mak' messages into the room juist to see her sittin' pittin' stitches into that embroidery, as they ca' it, an' hear her gie that little lauch o' hers! She has me fair bewitched. There's a kinna glawmour aboot her. An' I tell ye I culdna stand her by onything at the first.... I even think her bonnie noo an' she's no' that auld.
"Why, Grandpa!" cried Walter, in shocked surprise, "I never did hear you talk like that before." "Never had so much call to do it, mebbe," interposed the old man cynically. The last rays of the setting sun touched the two silvered heads, and rested there like a benediction, before disappearing below the horizon.
I," and Houston smiled with the memory of his victory, "I convinced him that he should give me credit." "Eet is good. In the woods, there are many men. The log, he is pile all about the mill. Three thousand tie, already they are stack up." "And the woman she has caused no trouble?" "No. Peuff! I have no see her. Mebbe so, eet was a mistake." "Maybe, Ba'tiste, but I was sure I recognized her.
We had got a bit chilly wading in the snow, and the fire gave us a mighty sense of comfort. 'I thought somethin' might happen, said Uncle Eb, as he hung his lantern to the ridge pole and took a big paper parcel out of his great coat pocket. 'I thought mebbe somethin' might happen, an' so I brought along a bite o' luncheon. He gave us dried herring and bread and butter and cheese.
All the docs say the outside of a hawss is good for the inside of a man. Mebbe it'll be the making of him." "I won't have it. I'll rouse the whole countryside against you. Why don't you parole him till he is better?" "All right. We'll leave it that way," announced the man. "I'd hate to hurt your tender feelings after such a pleasant evening.
"Well," she said, "I am glad you decided to come right away; we miss Vickers already, and I have no doubt, according to his recommendation, that you will be able to fill his place acceptably." "Thank you, ma'am. I reckon I'm to take up my quarters in the bunkhouse?" He paused. "Or mebbe the foreman's shanty?"
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