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"A minute ago, I'd 'a' said them blue walls back there, jest like October skies in Indian summer, and the brown rugs, like leaves in the woods, couldn't be beat; but this green and yaller is purtier yet.
Petersen says so, an' Jim says so, too. But she ain't a-goin' to have it cut off; she likes it too much, an' the ladies likes it, Jim's ladies do, an' they telled her to leave it hang down, an' one on 'em give her a blue dress to make it look purtier on it; an' she's give her lots of things more.
A groan for the Protestant parson, father darlin'!" Bravo, Mr. Lucre! That ditch was well cleared!" "Devil a purtier, father jewel! Parra Gastha's a darlin', and brought you over like a bird hurra!" "Have you no whip, Mr. Lucre? Whip and spur, sir, or the Popish garran will be in before you. By the great Boyne, I'm afraid the charger's blown." "God enable you, father avilish! Blown!
Jerry surrendered, and flipped the bridle reins over the neck of his horse. "Horn toad is right, the way you're scabbling around amongst them rocks," he called light-heartedly to the kid. "Ever see a purtier sunrise? I never!" I don't know what they thought of the sunset.
"Well, there you are," he rejoined persuasively. "But how do we know she won't be tickled to death with our name? She'd ought to be. It's purtier than any name I can think of," argued Jack Wales, a sailor. "When she's well enough, we'll tell her the kid's name is Doraine, and " "She won't hold back a second, boss, when she finds out that you picked it for her," broke in another.
She very graciously laid her hand in his, and her face beamed with positive pleasure as he awkwardly congratulated her upon her splendid appearance. "Well, little ole N'Yawk ain't done you no hurt as I kin see. Reckon I'll have to winter theah a spell mahself when mah caows come home," he said enthusiastically. "Yuah lookin' purtier 'n a red heifer." Douglass grinned at her rosy confusion.
Sucatash was troubled. "Don't know, pop. Never seen her face. Ought to be a sure-enough chiquita, if it's up to the rest of her. D'jever hear a purtier voice?" The old man caught the note of enthusiasm. "Yuh better go slow, son," he said, dryly. "I reckon she's all right but yuh don't really know nothin'." "Shucks!" retorted his son, calmly.
There was I, ticklin' you wid the pitchfork, strivin' to waken you, and one inch of it would have baked your bread for life. Didn't you feel me, Connor?" "Divil a bit, till the minute before I ris." "Then the divil a purtier jig you ever danced in your life; wait till I show you how your left toe wint."
If you have, ma'am, bad cess to the purtier purchaser you'd meet wid shawls or trinkets, or anything that way I mane, ma'am," he added, "things that arn't of any use to you an' I'm the boy that will shell out the ready money, and over the value."
Very much puzzled by the confidential little nod with which this information was communicated, Daisy yet felt she could not give up the matter. "Then what will you have? some ham? or some strawberries?" "Sure I'll do very well, niver fear, plase yer ladyship; don't trouble yerself. The angels wouldn't want something purtier to eat, than what we have, Miss!"
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