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"And how's that troublesome cough to-day, Mr. McDonald? better, I hope?" "Oh jist, jist! It will be nearly gone, indeed. Betsey will be giving me drugs; but hoots, toots, the weemen must be potterin' about a body. I will not be sick at all, oh no indeed." The minister knew that he ought to ask after Donald, but he could not bring himself to do so.
And suppose it took me three days to finish that little job they're potterin' with, by that time I'd be ready to, let's say, to escape, say, on the steamer that sails for Lima on Thursday. I'm a broken and tremblin' reed, Jefe. That's me. I shrinks, I fades away. The majestic law's too much for me. And suppose you was to fix up a Proclamation subsequent and immejiate, offerin' a reward for me.
"But of course I like to make a little; this Federal Tariff has rose the price of living considerable," she said, softening somewhat as we now sat down on the formidable and well-dusted seats. "But I believe you are somethink of a invalid." "Unfortunately, yes." "Well, this isn't no private hospital, and never pretended to be. Sick people is a lot of trouble potterin' and fussin' around with.
"Didn't know where I wuz fer six weeks thought I hadn't lit. When I come to, there wuz Loisy potterin' over me; but I ain't been rugged sence." "Married?" The man's answer broke through the patient homeliness of his face at once. He fumbled in his pocket silently, like one who has no common disclosure to make. "What d' ye think o' them, stranger?"
'You think you can't be tracked, says I, 'but you must bear in mind you haven't got to do with the old-fashioned mounted police as was potterin' about when this "bot" was first hit on. There's chaps in the police getting now, natives or all the same, as can ride and track every bit as well as the half-caste you're talking about.
Every man to his hobby; and yours, now, I can understand. When you've finished potterin' around the garden, weedin' an' plantin', an', by the way, the season for plantin' isn't far off. It's about time we looked up those autumn catalogues we talked so much about back in the spring." "True," said 'Bias. "It has slipped my mind of late. An' you not mentionin' either "
And a great deal of decision went into the churning that accompanied her words. "Mebbe so, mebbe so," said the Squire. He felt that the vagaries of the affections was too deep a subject for him. "Anyhow, Looizy, I don't want no old maids and bachelors potterin' round this farm getting cranky notions in their heads. Look at the professor.
He would be handing over the job to folks jist folks, mind ye! Eh! eh! wouldn't that be wonderful? An' it will jist be because we are such poor potterin' bodies, that we wouldn't be having the world patched up an' fixed right long ago. Och! it would be a great thing, indeed, that we would be having a hand in making the earth!
A pair of linsey pantaloons, a blue hunting shirt with a fringe of red and yellow, moccasins of tanned leather and a woollen hat were his chief visible articles of dress. Scrutinizing Scipio's features as he might inspect a wonder in a museum, Byle interrogated him: "Potterin' about for greens, I reckon? Do you belong here, Africanus?"
The other did not notice the oddness of his accent as she ended meditatively: "You can never get me to believe that it don't make old Yankees feel low in their minds to go back to their old homes and find just a few white-headed rheumatickers potterin' around, an' the grass growing over everything as though it was a molderin' graveyard that nobody iver walked in, and sorra sign of life anyway you look up and down the street."
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