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"Your dawg's at the other end of the yard, Mr Stubbs, that's why you don't see him. He's had an orkardness with Sayres, Mr Robarts' dog, as was in the next kennel, and I thought they'd have strangled themselves a-trying to get at one another, and so I had to separate them." "Will it be safe to let him loose?" asked Stubbs.
It was done out of opposition. I changed 'em there, and that's where they're to stand." "Well, I didn't move 'em," growled the man. "Didn't move them, sir" cried Barnett; but at that moment the door was closed with a bang. "I shall have to get rid of that fellow, Mr Ellis. He don't like me being promoted, and he has been moving my orchids out o' orkardness. Ha, ha! Not so very bad, that."
"Well," said Aunt Patsy, her eyes softening a little, "p'raps she didn't do it dis time. It mout a been his own orkardness. I hopes to mussiful goodness dat dat was so. But wot fur you call him Mister Crof'? Is dat he fus' name?" "I reckon so," said Isham. "He one ob de fam'ly now, an' I reckon dey calls him by he fus' name.
Ef he ran off on account of only two hundred and fifty dollars he ain't goin' to run back again for the mere matter o' your marrying Joan. Ef he had he'd a done it afore this. It's orkard ez I said but the only orkardness is your feelin's. I reckon Joan's got used to hers." Demorest had risen angrily to his feet.
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