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I've known him since I can remember and he was always kind. Jerry's a good man!" "And writes real poetry!" I nodded. "At least I think so. I should like to meet him again." "Well, he'll be Tonbridge way about now. I knows all his rounds an' he's reg'lar as a clock." "Do you know the way to Tonbridge?" "Of course!"
If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush or you'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first; or if there was a camp-meeting, he would be there reg'lar to bet on Parson Walker, which he judged to be the best exhorter about here, and so he was too, and a good man.
And it's that slim and smooth; nothin' fancy, but a reg'lar thoroughbred, just like her." He laid the watch carefully on his desk, and sat for a while gazing out of the window. It was the first time in his life that a woman had made him a present. Turning to replace the watch in the box, he saw something glitter in the cotton.
Thankful, very grateful for the change of topic, told of her life since her husband's death, of her long stay with Mrs. Pearson, of Emily's teaching school, and their trip aboard the depot-wagon. "Well," exclaimed Miss Parker, when she had finished, "you have been through enough, I should say! A reg'lar story-book adventure, ain't it?
They's a few other words I've always hoped to have a chance to spell in the reg'lar co'se of life, sech ez y-a-c-h-t, yacht, but I suppose, livin' in a little inland town, which a yacht is a boat, a person couldn't be expected to need sech a word less'n he went travelin'.
But Auntie's an original old girl, take it from me. "She ain't countin' on draggin' you off on this batty gold-diggin' excursion, is she?" I asks the other evenin', as I was up makin' my reg'lar Wednesday night call. Vee shrugs her shoulders. "I'm sure I don't know," says she.
And that's been when every man-jack of them was getting his graft as reg'lar as his pay check. And since I've been Supervisor is the only time this Forest has ever been in any kind of shape, if I do say it myself. I've rounded her up. I've stopped the graft. I've fixed the 'soldiers. I've got things in shape.
"My husband don't go to church as reg'lar as I might wish," Mrs. Slawson observed. "I tell'm, the reason men don't be going to church so much these days, is for fear they might hear something they believe." "You would find country life tame, perhaps, after the city." "Well, the city life ain't been that wild for me that I'd miss the dizzy whirl. An' anyhow we'd be together!" Martha said.
Thinking he might know about the nest of the Rock Wren, for an old miner knows a great many things he never thinks of making a book about, I asked him if there were any Wrens around there. "'Wall, I should smile, stranger! Lots on 'em more'n one kind, too but mostly not the reg'lar kind they have where you tenderfoots live bigger, and pickeder in front, and make more fuss.
Howe, as Miss Cotton moved on to tell of her good fortune to Alice and Linda. "How's your father, now? Does he preach every Sunday?" "Reg'lar as clock work. Of course I couldn't tell everybody, but I reckon he's using some old sermons that he wrote forty years ago, but the young ones never heard them, and the old ones have forgotten." Quincy laughed.
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