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They've ez little marcy ez a pack o' wolves in a sheep-pen." "Well," continued Fortner, meditatively, "Ole Rockassel's gittin' a glut to-night. She'd orten't ter need no more now fur a hundred yeahs." "I don't understand you," said Harry. "Why, they say thet the Rockassel hez ter hev a man every Spring an' Fall.
But he had had his foot washed by a Emperor, and I spoze he felt his oats more or less, as the sayin' is in rural districts, though he orten't to, seein' it wuz a religious ceremony to inculcate humility, and the old man ort to felt it too, as well as the Emperor. But howsumever, the hull twelve on 'em had their feet washed and wiped by nobility.
Yeou see," his voice assumed a mystic, whispery tone, "she never knowed when hit war night, 'n' the people wouldn't tell her, nur make a move till she quit beant hit even mawnin'. Arter readin', she'd talk awhile; tellin' 'em things they'd orter do, 'n' things they'd orten't. 'N' onct she clean busted up a feud by makin' two ole fellers shake han's. That caught the preacher's eye.
"Ef she came alone, she's got a black ride back," said another. "It's nigh onto fourteen miles to that crossin'." "An' she orten't to be travelin' at all," said little Muggy, the smallest man of the party. "I'm a family man or I wuz once an' I tell yer she ort to be where she ken keep quiet, an' wait for what's comin' soon."
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