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"Why, what's the matter?" demanded Sam innocently. "Isn't it a good picture? "I'll picture you!" "I thought I was doing my best." "Show me off for a donkey! If it wasn't against the rules I'd I'd wollop you!" "A donkey! Oh, Peleg, I did nothing of the kind! Here is your picture, on my word of honor." "It's a donkey's head, I say." "And I say it's your picture.
He was tellin' me about some tenant he'd have to put out; but I never noticed more'n that the name was Jenks." "But now?" ventured Paul. "It won't be did! No, sir, not by a jugful. I got my team outside, an' I'm goin' straight over to see the widder. I knowed her husband onct too, an' I'm some 'shamed thet I didn't look her up afore," and Peleg started for the door. "Hold on, Mr.
Balch, rejoicing, but not a little indignant at not having been taken into confidence, ascended to the Throne Room after supper to question Jethro concerning the meaning of the things he had heard, he found Senator Peleg Hartington seated mournfully on the bed, talking at intervals, and Jethro listening. "Come up and eat out of my hand," said the senator. "Who?" demanded Mr. Balch.
The men were happy, and did their duty with alacrity; and but for Peleg Oswald, all would have been harmony. We made the island about the 15th of December, when the weather was such as the season of the year might induce us to expect, it being then summer.
Selecting a linen bandage, a small supply of which Boone always carried with him on his expeditions, he gathered some leaves of the witch-hazel plant and, pounding them to a pulp, spread them upon the cloth. Thoroughly washing the wounded hand of Peleg, he then bound the cloth and pulp of the leaves upon the wound, saying as he did so: "In a week you will be as good as new."
All that any man can do is to prepare for what may befall him, and then, whatever comes, bear it like a man. But he who worries over his troubles before they arrive is in no condition to bear them after they come." "I know that is your way of thinking," said Peleg, "but I have not learned it yet." "That's the correct word, Peleg." "What word?" inquired the younger scout quickly.
Nevertheless, not three days previous, Bildad had told them that no profane songs would be allowed on board the Pequod, particularly in getting under weigh; and Charity, his sister, had placed a small choice copy of Watts in each seaman's berth. Meantime, overseeing the other part of the ship, Captain Peleg ripped and swore astern in the most frightful manner.
Peleg Hopkins grumbled audibly when he was requested to build the fires on Christmas day, and expressed his opinion that "if there warn't Bible agin workin' on Chris'mus, the' 'd ort ter be"; but when John opened the door of the bank that morning he found the temperature in comfortable contrast to the outside air.
"Peleg Growdy is a crabbed old chap, I admit; but perhaps you wouldn't blame him so much if you knew the trouble he has had." "What was that?" asked one boy. "His wife and two children were burned to death when his house caught fire many years ago. Another child grew up to be a man, and committed some crime that made him run away. His last one, a daughter, was killed in a railroad wreck.
"Yes I can," said Reuben, quietly; "I guess ye feel suthin ez I uster baout Jemimy, sorter light inside an so pleased like ye don't keer a copper ef ye live or die. Yes, I know mor'n ye think I dew baout the feelin's a feller hez long o' women, on'y ye see it didn't come ter nothin with Jemimy, fer wen my fust crop failed, an I was tuk for debt, Peleg got her arter all."
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