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Updated: June 16, 2025
Polly's mind was wandering in the shadows, but she still sang the songs of home in a strange land: Down by the biller there grew a green willer A weeping all night with the bank for a piller.
"We lugged the Major and his wife to the back of the store. I made a piller for her out'n some rolls of wall-paper, but the Major had to get along as best he could. There he lay, his little round stummick stickin' in the air, breathin' like a wind-broken horse. "Keno Jim and me looked after the lady whilest Hadds pranced around the Major and cussed scientific cuss-words.
"I'm dying, Peter," ses Sam, and 'e rolled over and buried his face in the bed-clo'es and kicked. Peter Russet, who was a bit scared, sat up in bed and called for Ginger, and arter he 'ad called pretty near a dozen times Ginger 'arf woke up and asked 'im wot was the matter. "Poor old Sam's dying," ses Peter. "I know," ses Ginger, laying down and cuddling into the piller agin. "He told me just now.
"Then Jack comes back, a heap grave with his cares, an' relieves Boggs; who's on watch, straddled of a chair, a-eyein' of the infant, who, a-settin' up ag'in a goose-ha'r piller, is likewise a-eyein' of Boggs. "'He's a 'way up good infant, Jack, says Boggs, givin' up his seat.
She moralised in the same vein until her glass was empty, and then administered the patient's medicine, by the simple process of clutching his windpipe to make him gasp, and immediately pouring it down his throat. 'I a'most forgot the piller, I declare! said Mrs Gamp, drawing it away. 'There! Now he's comfortable as he can be, I'm sure! I must try to make myself as much so as I can.
Accordin' to her promise Faithful Smith come to Jonesville in the fall and we wuz glad enough to see her. We had laid our plans to attend the Camp Meetin' at Piller Pint, and at last the time arriv. The day before the great meetin', the sky wuz rosy in the mornin', the distant lake looked blue, and everything bid fair for a good spell of weather.
Jest as if everybody in Haydown Center don't know I'm Josiah Bean an' a piller in the Union Church down there, an' a cousin to Jedge Bean o' Lassindale." "Well, they have to be mighty particular when they pay out any money in the city. There are so many sharpers around." "I ain't no sharper." "To be sure you are not, and neither am I. But I once had trouble getting money." "Is thet so?" "Yes.
But good land! I knew he couldn't rent any camel; circuses need 'em more than we do. The next day we all went out to see Pompey's Piller which we had seen towerin' up before we landed, all on 'em ridin' donkeys but me, but I not being much of a hand to ride on any critter's back, preferred to go in a chair with long poles on each side, carried by four Arabs.
"So Sary went down to the kitchen, an' brought up a plateful of hot baked beans. Dock Smith raised Bill up in bed, an' Dock Brainerd put a piller under the small of Bill's back. Then Sary sat down by the bed, an' fed them beans into Bill until Bill could n't hold any more. "'How air you feelin' now? asked Dock Smith.
"In my little locker in the van, since you're so curious," said the stoker grudgingly. "I 'ad mine stitched up in the piller o' my bunk with my Post Office Savin's book," said the engineer in the deep, hollow voice of a funeral bell. "An' it's burned to hashes, an' so is yours!" "Then it's nineteen to one the company won't pay up," said the stoker after an appalled silence.
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