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In a little while he fell to grumbling to himself, and soon he slouched back to the bar and said: "Lan'lord, what's your idea for rakin' up old personalities and blowin' about your father? Ain't this company agreeable to you? Ain't it? If this company ain't agreeable to you, p'r'aps we'd better leave. Is that your idea? Is that what you're coming at?"
'Twas more av a rakin' plough, if you will ondherstand, than a clean cut; an' niver did I see a man bleed as Vulmea did. The dhrink an' the stew that he was in pumped the blood strong. The minut' the men sittin' on my chest heard O'Hara spakin' they scatthered each wan to his cot, an' cried out very politeful: "Fwhat is ut, Sargint?" "Fwhat is ut!" sez O'Hara, shakin' Tim.
"What did he do to you?" inquired the boys, as they followed him down the road. "Why he ; but 't's no use to be rakin' it up agin. You know he always passes hisself off as one o' the conscrip'-guards, that's his dodge. Like as not, that's what he's gwine try and put off on y' all now; but don't you let him fool you." "We're not going to," said the boys.
You could easily imagine them laughing, with a consciousness of advantage, at the other grades of grammar and carpets in Canaan. "Smells real good, don't it?" called one who was comfortable and portly, and who had her apron wrapped about her hands, "always makes me feel that spring's came when the rakin' and burnin' begin." "Mrs.
That ain't sense, is it?" "It doesn't seem like it, that's a fact." "You bet it don't! And it ain't good religion, neither. Now take well, take this yard, for instance. What is it that I'm slavin' myself over this fine mornin'? Why, rakin' this yard! And what am I rakin'? Why, dead leaves from last fall, and straws and sticks and pieces of seaweed and such that have blowed in durin' the winter.
"That feller's not oysterin'," the captain answered; "he's rakin' quahogs." "Quahogs?" "That's clams," was the explanation; "the right name for what the people down in New York call a 'little-neck clam. The 'neck' is a foot, and it's little because the quahog doesn't burrow deep. The long or soft clam does." "And he just pulls them up with a rake?"
"By time! I'D like to try a spell. I've been over lookin' 'round their place. You never see such a place! Why, their front doorstep's big as this yard, pretty nigh." "Does it have to be raked?" I asked. "Raked! Whoever heard of rakin' a doorstep?" "Give it up! But it does seem to me that I have heard of raking a yard. I think Dorinda mentioned that, didn't she?"
What business has he to be rakin' over the old ashes of Sodom and Gomorrah for bones of antediluvian sinners, and leave his livin' flock to be burnt and choked by the fire and flames of the present volcano of crime, the Liquor System, that belches forth all the time." "Well, he wuz made so," sez I.
An’ one of ’em says to him,’ Sonny, if you’re afeerd that this yere corral is onjurious to the young lady’s morals, we’ll call in the gospel sharp, if you’ll stand for the brand.’ Now Jim hadn’t a cent, nor no callin’, nor a prospect to his back, but he struts up to the man that was doin’ the talkin’, game as a bantam, an’ he says, ’The lady ain’t rakin’ in anythin’ but a lettle white chip, in takin’ me, but if she’s willin’, here’s my hand.’
"'I found this 'ere cur'us lookin' thing, he said, 'under a walnut-tree on the hill yonder, where I was rakin' up leaves an', thinks I, there's some kind of a crittur stored away inside, an' Miss Ruth she's crazy arter bugs an' worms an' sich like varmints, an' mebbe she'd like to see what comes out o' this 'ere; so I've fetched it along.
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