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At the same time "Betsey" led the way into the house, and the visitor paid no further attention to the master. "We hain't got much to eat in the house," said the woman, as they entered the room. "There's some biled pork and pertaters in the pot, and we've got some bread, sech as 'tis." "It will do me very well. I'm hungry, and can eat any thing," replied Tom.
If anything, Abraham Lincoln's appetite has bin improved by Wabash air. I wuzzent goin 2 have the wimmen folks wear theirselves out cookin for him. So I fix-ed up a place for him in the old log house, & took him over some sides ov meat, a few bushel ov pertaters, a jug ov sorghum molasses, & every time mother bakes she sends over some leaves ov bread. I jest turned him loose there.
"I I don't just know what you mean," stammered Janice, feeling very uncomfortable. He looked at her with his eyes screwed up again. "D'you know what they said about yer uncle las' year? He come down to Jefferson's store with a basket of pertaters. All the big ones was on top and the little ones at the bottom. Huh! He ain't the only one that 'deacons' a basket of pertaters," and Walky chuckled.
"We cook potatoes just like tramps do, right out in the woods; we hold them on sticks over the fire. So now will you join? If you will you'll be elected patrol leader because there's only one to vote for you and I'm the one and I'm a majority. See? So if you come in right now you'll be sure to have a majority and I'll buy some Eskimo pies, too." "Der yez swipe de pertaters?" Joe asked.
At the slapping episode she flung an invisible "fork, dish, and pertaters" into an imaginary kettle, and glared; when the catastrophe arrived, she fell back upon her chair to express fainting; gave Christie's arm the "permiscuous grab" at the proper moment, and uttered the repentant Lisha's explanation with an incoherent pathos that forbid a laugh at the sudden introduction of the porcine martyr.
We'd better get the pertater ground ready and the rows furrowed out right off. Early plantin' is the best. How much will ye give to 'em?" "Half the plot," I said. "Why, Mr. Durham, that's a big plantin' for pertaters." "Well, I've a plan, and would like your opinion. If I put Early Rose potatoes right in, when can I harvest them?" "Say the last of July or early August, accordin' to the season."
"There's clouds to starboard and she's repentin'. She's been admirin' of it the hull mornin' in the attic. I was sot in the kitchen with pertaters," he explained, "but the work is wearin' and a feller needs fresh air." "Thank you for the tip, Uncle," said Winfield, heartily. The old man glowed with gratification.
'Yewmer 's that 'ar' 'diction 't Job had, ain't it? says I, and pathers thar' ye've kind o' got me, says I, ''less maybe it 's some fancy New York way o' reelin' off pertaters, says I. 'No, no, young woman, thinks I to myself, 'ye don't git in no kile on me!" The nervine lozenge which my friend had cautiously refrained from giving Miss Langham he now bestowed upon me.
The stranger shifted from one foot to the other. "Yes, yes," he began, "but " "You'd oughter seen him when old Marvin used ter send him put to hoe pertaters," cut in Jared gleefully. "Gorry! young as he was, he was all bugs then. He was smart enough to know that there was lots of curious critters under sticks an' stones that had laid still for a long time.
They found Sammy, in a clean blue shirt and a hat less like a Feejee headpiece, willing to do the honors of the Island, beaming like a freckled young merman as he paddled out to pull up the boats. "Fire's all ready for kindlin', and Ruth's slicin' the pertaters.
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