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"So you've been down by the sea-wall, hunting up things to p'ison the only friend you ever had on earth with, and left the brindle cow and her calf to die in the woods?" But Belle O'Neill had reached that plane of despondency where the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune could no longer sting her.
Which was wonderful hard for the cook t' manage, look you! as the skipper, which knowed nothin' about feelin's, would never stop tellin' un: the cook bein' from Thunder Arm, a half-witted, glossy-eyed lumpfish o' the name o' Moses Shoos, born by chance and brung up likewise, as desperate a cook as ever tartured a stummick, but meanin' so wonderful well that we loved un, though he were like t' finish us off, every man jack, by the slow p'ison o' dirt.
How did you make out to do that?" "Sleight of hand," suggested the other. "No powder marks, either. And, lastly, it was, a rifle did it, not a revolver." "Anything more?" "Some. That side talk between you and Miss Phyllis wasn't over and above clear to me then. I savez it now. She hates you like p'ison, but she's too tender-hearted to give you up. Ain't that it?" "That's it."
The neighbors thought this solicitude merely another sign of Diadema's "p'ison neatness," excusable in this case as there was so much white in the new rug.
Then Goarly winked at him, "I cannot imagine that even the laws of England could justify a man in perpetuating a breed of wild animals that are destructive to his neighbours' property." "I could shoot 'un; not a doubt about that, Mister. I could shoot 'un; and I wull." "Have a care, Dan," whispered Mrs. Goarly. "Hold your jaw, will ye? I could shoot 'un, Mister. I don't rightly know about p'ison."
Besides, Pete hasn't got many friends, and I reckon he knew he wouldn't get much sympathy. He rigged up his place after awhile and laid in a new stock of p'ison, but it'll take a long time for him to make up the losses that follered his inviting Jack Halloway to have a drink. Shawanoe," added the trapper, abruptly turning to the Indian, "I want to ask you a question."
It's what I has fences for, to be ridden over." "You didn't exactly hear what I have to say, Mr. Runce." "And I don't want. No offence, sir, if you be a friend of my Lord's; but if his Lordship was to say himself that Goarly was right, I wouldn't listen to him. A good cause, and he going about at dead o' night with his pockets full of p'ison!
"I wonder the lads have left you with a whole bone in your skin." "What have I done worse than any other poor man, Mr. Twentyman? When I took them herrings I didn't know there was p'ison; and if I hadn't took 'em, another would. I am going to cut it out of this, Mr. Twentyman." "May the go along with you!" said Larry, wishing his neighbour a very unpleasant companion.
Howsomever, this wouldn't do, this marrying; for, first, Dick Braxley was a bigger rascal than myself, and it was agin my conscience to give him the gal, who was a good gal, deserving of an honest husband; and, next the feller was mad after young madam, and there was no telling how soon he might p'ison my gal, to marry the other.
When I set a table for comp'ny I pile on a hull lot, 'n' I find it kind o' discourages 'em.... Mis' Southwick's hevin' a reg'lar brash o' house-cleanin'. She's too p'ison neat for any earthly use, that woman is. She's fixed clam-shell borders roun' all her garding beds, an' got enough left for a pile in one corner, where she's goin' to set her oleander kag.
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