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"An', if I dew, I wants tew return him his finger; so I'll jest take charge of that leetle bit of anatominy," and, reaching out, he took the finger from Thure, and, carefully wrapping it up in a piece of buckskin, thrust it into one of his pockets. "Wal, th' excitement is all over now, boys, an' you can return tew y'ur downy couches an' soft pillers.
"It's quite dead," said the mate reassuringly. "I've never seen a live beetle on this ship." "I want to go home," said the girl. "You've no business to make me come when I don't want to." "You should behave yourself then," said her father magisterially. "What about sheets, Jack; and pillers?" The mate sat on the table, and, grasping his chin, pondered.
But to us who loved her, to us whose hearts wuz wrung thinkin' of her, mournin' for her, cryin' on our pillers, seekin' with agonized, hopeless eyes for our dear one, we kep' on searchin' day and night, hopin' aginst hope till the last minute of our stay there.
She began to gasp and sob, and Bill began to think wot a good wife he 'ad got, when he felt 'er put a couple of pillers over where she judged his 'ead to be, and hold 'em down with her arm. "Thank you, Mr. Winch," she ses, very loud. "Thank you. Good-by, Good-by."
Imagine a great lake of fire instead of water, waves of burning lava dashing up onto its shores, bustin' way up in the air at times, towerin' pillers of flame, swishin' and swashin', fire and flames, and brimstun for all I know. What what wuz goin' on way down in the depths below if this wuz the seen outside? So wildly I questioned my heart and Josiah. "Oh, Josiah!" sez I, "what what a sight!
Girls who're 'on the game' who drink ought to know better, and don't deserve sympathy." Mavis stared at her wide-eyed, striving to recalled where she had heard that expression before, also what it meant. "You sit quiet, dear; you'll be better directly," said the woman. "I've got to wash this stuff off. Beastly nuisance, but, if you don't, it stains the sheets and pillers, as I daresay you know."
"By never saying nothing about it. Come, we're losing too much time; you'll get no sleep at all if you never stop talking. Lay down at once, for I ca'c'late you ain't partic'lar about having a straw bed, nor very soft pillers." Again expressing their gratitude to the man for his repeated kindness, Ned and Jo stretched themselves upon the flinty floor, and quickly glided into the land of dreams.
"It ain't ev'rybody I'd put to sleep in this room," said old Mrs. Jinks to the fastidious and extremely nervous young minister who was spending a night at her house. "This here room is full of sacred associations to me," she went on, as she bustled around opening shutters and arranging the curtains. "My first husband died in that bed with his head on these very pillers, and poor Mr.
"As far as I know, she ain't my child," sez I. He give a start an' it made him groan. "What's the matter with your leg?" sez I. "It's broke!" he yells. "Do you think I got it stuck up on pillers 'cause my foot's asleep?" "Is it easy that way?" sez I. "No it ain't," he snaps. "Perhaps if you'd get it fixed easy you might be able to talk easy," I sez. "Do you want me to fix it easy?"
We retired early and our beds wuz quite comfortable, though as I told Josiah, I had seen bigger pillers, and I wuz more settled in my mind, as to whether the feathers in 'em wuz geese or hen. He said he wuz glad to lay his head down on anything that would hold it up. And after I remembered that Miss Dagget's bed wuz jest the other side of the thin board partition.
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