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'Long in March, aunt, she ketched cold, took tew her bed, got wuss, an' told me tew hurry up, fer nary cent should I hev, ef I warn't safely merried 'fore she stepped out. I thought that was ruther craoudin' a feller; but I see she was goan sure, an' I'd got inter a way er considerin' the cash mine, so that it come hard to hear abaout givin' on 't up.
"'I guess the' is ruther more egg showin' than the law allows, I says, 'an' mebbe that 'd be a good idee; but the pants caught it the wust, I says. "'Mine'll fit ye, he says. "'What'll your wife say to seein' me airifyin' 'round in your git-up? I says. He gin me a funny kind of look. 'My wife? he says.
We was in ruther too much of a sweat to think of so many things. It warn't good judgment to put EVERYTHING on the raft. If the men went to the island I just expect they found the camp fire I built, and watched it all night for Jim to come. Anyways, they stayed away from us, and if my building the fire never fooled them it warn't no fault of mine. I played it as low down on them as I could.
She was in great awe of this young man whose square chin was in such extreme contradiction to his softly luminous eyes, and she began to feel less fortified by the reminder of the "cause." "I'd ruther not," she faltered. "Then don't, Amarilly," he said gently. "Mebby that's why I'd orter," she acknowledged, lifting serious eyes to his.
And then I'd see him and Uncle Sime Bentley, his particular chum, with their heads clost together, seemin'ly plottin' sunthin' or ruther, though what it wuz I couldn't imagine. And then they would bend their heads eagerly over the daily papers, and more'n once Josiah got down our old Olney's Atlas and he and Uncle Sime would pour over it and whisper, though what it wuz about I couldn't imagine.
The riddle is, 'A man rode across a bridge and Yet he walked, and the answer is, 'He had a little dog named Yet who walked across the bridge." "Well, I'd 'nother sight ruther have a little dog name' Fido," declared Jimmy. "A little dog name' Yet and a little girl name' Stillshee ain't got no sense a tall to it." "Why should a hangman wear suspenders?" asked Lina.
"Much obliged," said David with a nod. "Not at all," protested John, laughing. "I have enjoyed a great deal this morning." "It has ben ruther pleasant," remarked David with a chuckle, "but you mustn't cal'late on havin' such fun ev'ry mornin'." John went into the business office, leaving the banker and Dick. "Say," said the latter when they were alone, "that young man o' your'n 's quite a feller.
I'd ruther been shot than die with the colic, but I 'spose 'twont make much difference after it's all over!" 9 "I'll do it," replied Shorty. "We'll plant you in good shape; and Si, we'll gather up the corn-cobs and build a monument over you!" But Si wasn't cut off in the bloom of youth by that colic.
Folks say he come from the wolf, but that ain't no reflection on him, seein' that we come from monkeys ourselves; an' I believe, takin' all things into account, I'd as soon have a wolf for a ancestor as a monkey, an' a little ruther. "Last night in the liberry of my old friend Judge Fowler in Greenville, I looked up some things about this dog question.
"Don't you wanter hold my dollie?" said Mary Brooks, tendering a handkerchief puppet to Miss Raymond with a perfect imitation of childish innocence. "Oh, no, come an' tell us a story," begged Babbie, twisting her white apron into a roll. "You'd ruther roll hoops, hadn't you?" said Katherine to Miss Ferris.
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