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It on'y showed me 'ow anxious most people are that everybody else should be good. I thought they was never going to stop, and, if it 'adn't been for a fit of coughing, I don't believe that the scraggy little woman could ha' stopped.
"T'ke't out o' the purl, then oh!" groaned Ian. "W'as 'e marrer now, eh?" sighed Victor. "On'y a big stone i' m' ribs." "Shove't out o' y'r ribs 'en an' 'old y'r tongue." Profound slumber stopped the conversation at this point, and the frogs that croaked and whistled in the swamps had it all to themselves.
You fixed it up so my straw would point that way. It ain't fair, an' I won't do it." "You got no right following me." "I ain't following you, but you keep going just the place I want to go. It's you following me, on'y keepin' ahead. I told you I was after cherries." "Well, the cherries are that way and I'm going this way, and I don't want you along." "You couldn't get me if you wanted me." "Erh "
Would you like to be blown through them, and not see where you were going?" "Well, no," said Ford: "I rather guess I wouldn't." "Jes' you let Capt'in Kinzer handle dis yer boat," almost crustily interposed Dick Lee. "He's de on'y feller on board dat un'erstands nagivation." "Shouldn't wonder if you're right," said Ford good-humoredly. "At all events, I sha'n't interfere.
I dinnaw why it was, whether it was th' influence iv our new citizens in Cubia an' th' Ph'lippeens or what it was, but annyhow th' on'y news that come out iv Kentucky was as peaceful, Hinnissy, as th' rayports iv a bloody battle in South Africa.
Wotever you hear from HER, and, for the matter o' that, from her own darter too for I'm takin' back the foolishness I said to ye over yon about your runnin' off with Cress you'll remember, Mr. Ford, it warn't from no ill feeling to YOU, in her or Cress but on'y a want of kam!
I said something of the kind to Barney, and he laughed. "Oh yes, sir," he said. "It's like going aloft when you're young. I remember the first time I went up to the main-topgallant mast-head, I said to myself, `On'y let me once get down safe, and you'll never ketch me up here again; while now one goes up and does what one has to do without thinking about it, and Hear that?"
"Why, Henery, ses Bob Pretty, 'wot are you a-thinkin' of? Where's your memory? Why, it's on'y two or three days ago you see it and 'ad to get up a tree out of its way. "He smiled and shook 'is 'ead at 'im, but Henery Walker on'y kept opening and shutting 'is mouth, and at last 'e went outside without saying a word. "'And Sam Jones see it, too, ses Bob Pretty; 'didn't you, Sam?
The little boys, with all their valour, scurried away in clouds. Mrs. Joe Peterson, however, cast a glance over her shoulders as she, with her skirts gathered up, was running as best she could. She instantly stopped and, in tones of deepest scorn, called out to the others, "Why, it's on'y Pete Witheby!"
And there's pretty near a dozen of you as'll 'ave to go in the box and swear as you saw the tiger. Now, can I sell any of you a bit o' pork afore you go? It's delicious eating, and as soon as you taste it you'll know it wasn't grown in Claybury. Or a pair o' ducks wot 'ave come from two 'undered miles off, and yet look as fresh as if they was on'y killed last night.
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