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Updated: June 11, 2025
Each retiring speculator has left his stock-in-trade, along with the good-will, to his successor; and at the present moment it is a combination of shops, where everything you don't want is to be found in a state of dilapidation, together with a very hungry-looking proprietor, who, for want of customers upon whom to exercise his ingenuity, pulls away all day long upon the accordion to the tune of We're a' noddin'. The other end of Our Terrace has its butcher, its public-house, its grocer, and a small furniture-shop, doing a small trade, under the charge of a very small boy.
Though," added the roguish Rufe, with a grin of enjoyment, "arter I hed dressed up the blackberry bush in mam's apron an' shawl, an' sot her bonnet a-top, it tuk ter noddin' and bowin' with the wind, an' looked so like folks, ez it gin ME a skeer, an' I jes' run home ez hard ez I could travel. An Towse, he barked at it!" Andy Byers spoke suddenly. "Waal, Birt holped ye, then."
"In the box, miss; I brought the seed hacross the hocean, and they wuz beauties, they wuz wot came hup. They'll be noddin' and wavin' now red and 'andsome, if she hasn't cut them. She wouldn't cut them, would she, miss? She couldn't 'ave the 'eart, I think." "No indeed, she hasn't cut them," the nurse declared with decision, taking Polly's burning hand tenderly in hers.
Then I heard a deer comin' jumpin' down th' runway, 'n' knowin' 'for I could get him wide awake 'nough t' cock 'n' sight his gun th' deer 'd be on us, I slipped up behind th' stump 'n' laid my rifle 'cross its top, th' muzzle not over a foot above his noddin' head. I was no more'n ready 'fore here come a buck?
An' then she looks down at the table-cloth 'It wants darnin', says she. "Tis easy seen as a woman's hands be needed here. "'They are, truly, says he, lookin' at her so wistful-like. "'Well, we'll see, says she, noddin' at him very kind." "An' did she really look over everything Mrs. Domeny, my dear?" interrupted Mrs. Cross eagerly. "She must ha' been a wonderful sensible woman!"
"'Wa'al, says the chap that was leadin' him, 'I never see the hoss that wa'n't if the price was right. "'Your'n? I says. "'Mine an' his'n, he says, noddin' his head at the other feller. "'What ye askin' fer him? I says. "'One-fifty, he says.
"Ask him," says she, noddin' at Mr. Sallie. But Leavitt only hangs his head guilty and shuffles his feet. "Then I'll tell you," says she. "Yesterday he slipped out, hunted up his cousin, and got us invited to dinner. More'n that, he said we'd come." "Well, why not go?" says I. "Because," says she, "I I just can't do it.
"'Yes, yes, he says flurried, 'yes, it is like he was rushin' to cover an' a 'yes' to agree was his best protection. "'Oh, well, it ain't so early either, Silas cuts in, noddin' crafty. "'No, no, Eb agrees immediate, 'I donno's 'tis so very early, after all. "'I'm thinkin' o' takin' the store over myself, says Silas Sykes, tippin' his head back an' rubbin' thoughtful under his whiskers.
"Well, it was rill easy to manage 'em, they bein' men an' susceptible to fascinations o' lawin' it over somethin'. An' we all got into the delivery wagon, an' Eb, he come too, sittin' in back, listenin' an' noddin', his feet hangin' over the box informal. "I allus remember how the cemetery looked that mornin'. It was the tag end o' June an' in June cemeteries seems like somewheres else.
"Then, I've guessed right; he turns out not to be a gentleman eh, Dahly? Go on noddin', if ye like. Never mind the shop people; we're well-conducted, and that's all they care for. I say, Dahly, he ain't a gentleman? You speak out or nod your head. You thought you'd caught a gentleman and 'taint the case. Gentlemen ain't caught so easy.
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