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We haven't got the proper sort of tools, and we aren't been drilled to use them even if we had." "That's a true word, messmate," came in chorus. "And that's why I says I hope she won't look us up to-night; but if she is following us up and keeping one of them great sarcer eyes upon our keel somewheres far away down below, I hope she'll leave it till morning.
"I hope I shall not have to try it again." "I guess not;" and Nan looked up with such an earnest little face that Mrs. Jo felt satisfied, and said no more, for she liked to have her penalties do their own work, and did not spoil the effect by too much moralizing. Here Rob appeared, bearing with infinite care what Asia called a "sarcer pie," meaning one baked in a saucer.
"But ef I live ter git a cent out'n it," he said to himself, "I'll take the very fust money I kin call my own an' buy Tennessee a chany cup an' sarcer, an' a string o' blue beads an' a caliky coat ef I die fur it." His pleased reverie was broken by a sudden discovery. He was not standing among stones about the great bowlder; no his foot had sunk deep in the sand!
Says he to his wife: 'Fanny, I told you Jethro'd get even with you some time for that sarcer business." This story, strange as it may seem, had a great success at Mr. Merrill's table. Mr. Merrill and his daughter Susan shrieked with laughter when it was finished, while Mrs. Merrill and Jane enjoyed themselves quite as much in their quiet way.
"He must have stood a poor chance indeed," said I, "a horse kickin', and a man striking him at the same time." "Oh! not arter that pattern at all," said he, "Lord if Old Clay had kicked him, he'd a smashed him like that 'ere sarcer you broke at Pugnose's inn, into ten hundred thousand million flinders. Oh! no, if I didn't fix his flint for him in fair play, it's a pity. I'll tell you how it was.
Says he to his wife: 'Fanny, I told you Jethro'd get even with you some time for that sarcer business." This story, strange as it may seem, had a great success at Mr. Merrill's table. Mr. Merrill and his daughter Susan shrieked with laughter when it was finished, while Mrs. Merrill and Jane enjoyed themselves quite as much in their quiet way.
When we set down, I said: 'Now, Mis' Binney, you and the Judge take right hold, and anything you can't reach, speak out and we'll wait on you. And Mis' Binney? "Yes," she said. She was a little mite scared, I guess. B-begun to suspect somethin'." "Mis' Binney," said I, "y-you can set your cup and sarcer where you've a mind to. O-ought to have heard the Judge laugh.
Oh! not arter that pattern at all, said he, Lord if "Old Clay" had a kicked him, he'd a smashed him like that are sarcer you broke at Pugnose's inn, into ten hundred thousand million flinders. Oh! no, if I did'nt fix his flint for him in fair play it's a pity. I'll tell you how it was. I was up to Truro, at Ezra Whitter's Inn. There was an arbitration there atween Deacon Text and Deacon Faithful.
When we set down, I said: 'Now, Mis' Binney, you and the Judge take right hold, and anything you can't reach, speak out and we'll wait on you. And Mis' Binney? "Yes," she said. "She was a little mite scared, I guess. B-begun to suspect somethin'." "Mis' Binney," said I, "y-you can set your cup and sarcer where you've a mind to. O-ought to have heard the Judge laugh.
When we set down, I said: 'Now, Mis' Binney, you and the Judge take right hold, and anything you can't reach, speak out and we'll wait on you. And Mis' Binney? "Yes," she said. She was a little mite scared, I guess. B-begun to suspect somethin'." "Mis' Binney," said I, "y-you can set your cup and sarcer where you've a mind to. O-ought to have heard the Judge laugh.
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