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"Ef I ever sees or hears or knows," he added to the photographer, "anywheres on the face o' this 'ere wide an' at the same time narrer 'arth, o' any o' these here dagarrier-ructions 't you've played off on me this day, bein' otherwise 'n destriyed, I sh'll take the first fa'r wind up here, an' if thar' ain't no wind I sh'll paddle, an' my settlemunt 'ith you'll be a final one. Good-arternoon."
The engineer of his train can't stop for orders short of this station, for the reason that there are no stations." "An' thim Sooz is in ambush near here?" queried Casey, reflectively. "Shure thot could only be in wan place. I rimimber thot higher, narrer pass." "Right. It's steep up-grade coming east. Train can be blocked.
They have beautiful fountains in Rome. All of a sudden as we went through a narrer street, we see a dazzlin' sheet of water come down from the rock shell work and statutes, clear streams of water seemed to be gushin' out on all sides, fallin' into a big reservoir big enough for a ship to float in, and one day we went to see the Baths of Caracella.
Then he turned down the legs of his trousers, and carefully examined the lank green carpet-bag he had been carrying. "I guess I trailed it through some o' the drifts," he remarked. "The road's pretty narrer, this season o' the year." "You give us a real start," said Susan. "We thought be sure 't was Solomon, an' mebbe the Queen o' Sheba follerin' arter.
The city lay at our feet embowered in tropical foliage, with its handsome uneek buildin's, its narrer windin' streets stretchin' fur up the mountain side, runnin' into narrerer mountain paths covered with white sand. The beautiful houses and gardens of the English colony clost down to the shore.
"I dunno baout that nuther," declared Abner with a cornerwise nod of the head. "Thar be plenty o' pesky places long the road wen it gits up intew the mountings an is narrer and windin like. I wouldn' ass fer more'n a kumpny tew stop a regiment in them places. I wuz talkin tew the Duke baout that tidday.
"If it wa'n't fer me she'd git in time as narrer as them seven-day Babtists over to Peeble they call 'em the 'narrer Babtists. You've heard on 'em, hain't you, Polly?" "No," she said, without looking up from her plate, "I never heard on 'em, an' I don't much believe you ever did neither." "What!" exclaimed David, "You lived here goin' on seventy year an' never heard on 'em?"
Harum, "them hosses didn't like it fer a cent, an' tell the truth I didn't like it no better. We couldn't go ahead fer we couldn't git by the cussed thing, an' the hosses was 'par'ntly tryin' to git back under the buggy, an', scat my ! if he didn't straighten 'em out an' back 'em 'round in that narrer road, an' hardly scraped a wheel. Yes, sir," declared Mr.
It's wore out, and I keep gettin' that faint. 'Oh, I sez, 'cheer up; when you've 'ad a cup o' tea you'll feel better'; but I'd hardly got the words out o' my mouth before he were gone in a dead faint. "We got 'im to bed between the three on us, and, my word, it were a job gettin' 'im up them narrer stairs!
After a hard and wilful youth and maturity, in which he had buried a broken-spirited wife, and driven his son to sea, he suddenly experienced religion. "I got it in New Orleans in '59," said Mr. Thompson, with the general suggestion of referring to an epidemic. "Enter ye the narrer gate. Parse me the beans." Perhaps this practical quality upheld him in his apparently hopeless search.
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