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Updated: June 7, 2025
"Oh, pshaw! major, pshaw!" said Captain Pharo, with deep returning gloom; "seven dollars a week ain't nothin' to the pleasure she'd take, arfter she'd once got spliced onto ye, in houndin' on ye, an' pesterin' ye, an' swipin' the 'arth with ye."
"Here you knew all the time; and you kept pesterin' me by trying to make me believe that you thought he had run away because he was a thief!" It was, perhaps, the proudest moment of the Dean's life when he admitted that Patches had confided in him that morning when they were so late to breakfast.
"Reckon you better have a bite with us," invited one of the men as he set the tin-can coffee pot upon the coals of their fire. "Thet thar burro bin a pesterin' you?" asked the second man, fixing the burro with a searching gaze. "Oh, no!" I denied, remembering my debt to the animal. "We put in the night together, and he even ate some of my hardtack this morning," I ended laughing.
"Nothin' but hounds an' vittles worries them," the woman replied sharply, "but they an't none like city boys, an' I'd ruther have 'em the way they air than to come pesterin' with questions like Hamilton does you. I don't set any sort o' stock in it, an' I don't encourage him in sech nonsense." The big Kentuckian smiled, and filled his corn-cob leisurely as he turned the talk to other things.
Don't ye go to pesterin' him with yer talk and yer questions; fur he's diff'rent make 'an I be, an' 'twon't do. Let him alone, an' keep yer own side o' the Rock." The skipper's word was looked upon with respect by all the fish-folk, and they heeded his advice. So, in consequence, the owner of the stone mansion was undisturbed, and lived in the greatest seclusion.
Yessuh; she knows whut my cross is," and then he started slowly after her, shaking his head and, as his wont was, talking to himself. He was still talking to himself when Basil came out to the stiles after supper to get into his buggy. "Young Cap'n, dat gal Molly mighty nigh pesterin' de life out o' me. I done tol' her I'se gwine to de wah." "What did she say?"
"I tell you I'm not goin' with you. Quit pesterin' me." His devil-may-care laugh trod on the heels of her refusal. He guessed shrewdly that circumstances were driving her to him. The girl was full of resentment at her father's harsh treatment of her. Her starved heart craved love. She was daughter of that Clanton who led the feud against the Roush family and its adherents.
"De sign was, dat one read de Bible back'ards, and no one speak all hadter go by signs, an' dat'd keep de sperits fum pesterin' us. John Gomus, he had de rod goin' roun', an' fonn' a place to stick it. I dunno why he stick it whey he did. De rod pinted right down dere; and right whey de rod pinted we digged. When we commence diggin', it was about half-past eight o'clock, and we worked hard, sah.
That's the fact; bites himse'f, an' never lets up till he's dead. "It don't seem to astound Jim an' Bill none when the rattlesnake 'sassinates himse'f that a-way, an' I reckons they has this yere sooicide in view. They keeps pesterin' an' projectin' about ontil the rattlesnake is plumb defunct, an' then they emits a whirlwind of new whoops, an' goes over to one side an' pulls off a skelp dance.
He said that if your father had been a wishful man," he used the hill phrase for ambition quite unconsciously, "he could have gone to the Legislature. Perhaps to Congress." "I reckon he mout ef hed any honors he craved," she replied. "Folks was always pesterin' him ter run fer office."
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