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There's northin' like a witness of transactions, Mr. Parker. Now you and me ain't got together right up to now.
"I never heard deep-water cussin' before, with all the trimmin's. Old Trufant ain't got northin' but side-hill conversation, and I reckon he's about run down." Constable Nute should have awaited more fitting opportunity, but Constable Nute was a rather direct and one-ideaed person. As manager of the town hall he had business to transact with the first selectman, and he proceeded to transact it.
"You been sayin' right along that you did believe in 'em," grunted the first selectman. "Northin' of the sort!" declared Hiram. "I was only showin' you that when you rose up and hollered that there never was any witches you didn't know what you were talkin' about."
The men who gazed on him from the waist saw in his resolution only stubborn determination to punish them. "He's sartinly the obstinatest man that ever lowered his head at ye," said Zeburee Nute, breaking in on the apprehensive mumble of his fellows. "He won't stop at northin' when he's mad. Look what he's done in Smyrna. But I call this rubbin' it in a darn sight more'n he's got any right to do."
"You and me and him," observed the Cap'n, with sullen prod of his thumb in direction of the "gingerbready" tower of the Bickford place rising over the ridge, "marooned in that judges' stand like penguins on a ledge we'll be li'ble to break the monotony. Oh yes! There ain't no doubt about that." "Why, there'll be northin' to it!" blustered Hiram, encouragingly.
For a man that's dreamed of garden-truck jest as he wants it, and never had veg'tables enough in twenty years of sloshin' round the world on shipboard, it's about the most cussed, aggravatin' thing I ever got against. And there I am! Swear and chase and northin' comin' of it!" Hiram clenched his cigar more firmly in his teeth, leaned over carefully, and picked up the recumbent P.T.
"Ow, Gaw' blimme, let hup! Hi never meant northin'! A lie Ow, yuss a lie! She's a proper lydy Hi never 'eard the hother Gaw' strike me blind!" The man with the scar cast the fellow contemptuously away; and Cockney lost no time in putting the distance of the room between them. The big man turned on the Swede, and his voice was sharp and commanding. "Swede, does the Golden Bough sail to-morrow?"
When the agreement of sale was laid before him he signed with a blunted lead-pencil, still in his trance. "Northin' but a cross-cut saw with two axe-handles for legs," he said to himself, his eyes on the Colonel's back as that individual stamped wrathfully away. "Teeth and edge are hard as iron! It's no good to talk mattermony to him.
I don't mean to dump you, nor northin' of the sort, but there ain't anything I can seem to do. You take what there is this here is all that belongs to me." He shook the valises at them. "I'm goin' to git out of this God-forsaken town I'm goin' now, and I'm goin' strong, and you're welcome to all I leave, just as I leave it. For the first time in my life I'm glad I'm a widderer."
"You've knowed me thutty years and sailed with me five, Dunk Butts, and ye're shinnin' into the wrong riggin' when ye come at me with a rock. I ain't in no very gentle spirits to-day, neither." "I wasn't doin' northin' to you," squealed Butts, his anger becoming mere querulous reproach, for the Cap'n's eye was fiery and Butts's memory was good.
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