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"Then there was a rushin and a roarin, and the earth shook, and h'all of a sudden h'out of the whirlwind a great voice ollaed: "'Tally-ho! forrad! mush em up, boys, and no Woody quarter! "'Your prayer is eard, Mr. Piper, says I. 'It's a Jedgement on em. "'My prayer is eard, says pore old Pipea. 'It's the orse-dragoons. "Then his ead loll sideways, and he was h'off again."
I was for gettin' some turkey eggs right away and rushin' along a flock so they'd be ready by Christmas, but both Vee and Leon insists that it can't be done. Seems it's too late in the season or something. They want to wait until next spring. "Not me," says I. "I've promised your Auntie I'd raise turkeys and I gotta deliver the goods.
How man watched over the woman he loved; how he shielded her from every rude care; kept labor and sorrow far, far from her; how woman's life wuz like a oneasy, roarin', rushin' river, that swept along discontented and onsatisfied, moanin' and lonesome, until it swept into the calm sea of Repose melted into union with the grand ocian of Rest, marriage.
"At that moment, shipmates, a strong gust o' cold air came rushin' down the passage we was in, and blow'd out the candle. `Ah! it's gone out, said the landlord; `just wait here a moment, and I'll light it; and with that he shuffled off, and left me in the blackest and most thickest darkness I ever wos in in all my life.
Fillin' the tank, low snortin' and rushin' of the waters up and down, chasin' along the pipes in every room, hammerin', kickin', shootin', like enraged artillery, at last thundering like the most skairful clap of thunder and then with a fearful roar the volume of water would mount up and pour into the spare room and drizzle down into the settin' room below, takin' off the plasterin' in spite of our very best efforts to bail it out.
He was a vivacious fellow, one of those who are indefatigable in abortive attempts at being witty, one of his favorite puns being that we "Russians were not rushin' at all," that we were a "slow lot." Altogether he treated us as an inferior race, often lecturing us upon our lack of manners I detested him When he saw me drop the bottle of milk he flew into a rage
Back and forth he goes, sometimes touchin' the floor and then again being tossed toward the ceilin'. Two or three of 'em would get him and start rushin' him across the room when another bunch would tear him loose and begin some maneuvers of their own. Anyway, runnin' the guard seems to be about as strenuous an act as anybody could go through and come out whole.
"Lordy! Lordy!" breathed Kenny in delight. "The lake is thatched with moonbeams!" And he thought of course of the legend of Killarney. "'Twas a valley like this, Joan," he said, "all rich with fields and pastures of green and there in the heart of it always was the fairy fountain covered with a stone to keep the water from rushin' out. And then came the knight." His eyes pleaded.
"Speakin' for li'l old Tim Ryan, that ain't no joke, neither. Lookit all the girls givin' us the laff. Who are them tall ones that's been rushin' the grub? Waitresses or somethin'?" "Those are the chief's wives," Lourenço explained. "Huh? Gosh! he's one brave guy, that feller! Two four six eight nine of 'em! Swell lookers, too. I s'pose he has his pick o' the whole crowd here."
He glanced at his fireplace and at his hillside, wavered, but fought down the temptation and started the fire. "Keep yer shirt on, Bill; keep yer shirt on," he admonished himself. "What's the good of rushin'? No use in gettin' all het up an' sweaty. Mr. Pocket'll wait for you. He ain't a-runnin' away before you can get yer breakfast.
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