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She kept talkin' against it when I was a boy and later, too. She told how scar't she was when Cap'n Josh and the Bravo went down in sight of her windows. And mebbe I ketched it more from her talkin' than aught else. "But I never realized that stress of circumstances could push me into it an' make a man of me.
"My cookin' is sech as white folks kin eat, but " "We will pay you twenty dollars a month." "The wages air more'n enough, but " "And the work will be light." "I ain't scar't o' work," she retorted valiantly, "but " "It's settled, then," said Ajax, in his masterful way. "If you'll get down, I'll unhitch the mule and put him in the barn. My brother will show you the house."
Jim was scar't, but he had to go. After he'd gone down once, Len says to him, 'Drown, now, you damn nigger! and Jim come up and went down twice more. Then Len begun to think Jim was worth a good bit of money, and mebbe he'd be almighty walloped if the truth come out, so he dives in after Jim and gets him shore, and after while he brought him to.
I was so scar't that I didn't know then whether she had missed me or was chawin' of me. I felt I was pretty numb like below my waist. And how I did stretch up that tree! No wonder I growed tall after that day," said Jerry, shaking his head. "I stretched ev'ry muscle in my carcass, Miss I surely did! "There was that ol she b'ar, on her hind legs and a-roarin' at me like the Mr.
Didn't you never see a tramp before, for pity's sake? And if you're scar't for fear I can't handle 'em alone, why, Jabe 'll be comin' along soon. The prospeck of gittin' to bed's the only thing that'll make him 'n' Maria hurry; 'n' they'll both be cal'latin' on that by this time!"
At a lunch that was given to Sherman a long time afterward, I referred to that meeting. Sherman cocked his eye at me and said: "Yes, I remember it very well; I never was so scar't in all my life." ...
Das de onliest laig it had, says she. "'What do yo' mean? Mars' Colby cry. 'Yo' tell me my goose ain' hab but one laig? "'Ya-as, suh. Das hit. On'y one laig, says dat scar't yaller gal, an' ter clinch it she added, 'All yo' geese dat a-ways, Mars' Colby. Dey all ain' got but one laig." "Oh!" squealed Dot. "Was it sure enough so, Uncle Rufus?" asked Tess, in awe. "Yo' wait! yo' wait, chillen!
I'm more afeard of a scar't man, a real scar't man nor a rattler. They cussed us till they was hoarse. Said they'd hev us hung, an' Clark, too. Said they hed a right to go back to Virginny if they hed a mind." "An' what did ye say?" demanded Polly Ann, pausing in her work, her eyes flashing with resentment. "Did ye tell 'em they was cowards to want to settle lands, and not fight for 'em?
Well, things went along just about so with us till we neared the Cape. It's not a pretty place, the Cape, on a winter's voyage. I can't say as I ever was what you may call scar't after the first time rounding it, but it's not a pretty place. I don't seem to remember much about Kent along there till there come a Friday at the first of December.
I'se gittin' tuh dat," declared the old man, chuckling. "Co'se dat Sally Alley say dat, hysterical lak'. She was dat scar't. Mars' Colby scowl at her mo' awful. "'I mak' yo' prove dat to me atter dinner, he say, savage as he kin be. 'Yo'll tak' us all out dar an' show us my one-laiged geese. An' if it ain't so, I'll send yo' to de fiel' oberseer.
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