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All de day long kind o' chatterin' and hurryin' de niggers up when dere a-droppin' de seed in de line, and scoldin' and hurryin' all de day long, when dere a-hoein' down de weeds.
'What in natur are you a scoldin' for? sais I: 'that won't mend the matter; how's time? They must soon be a stirrin' now, I guess. Well, as I am a livin' sinner, it was only five o'clock; 'oh dear, sais I, 'time is like women and pigs the more you want it to go, the more it won't. What on airth shall I do? guess, I'll strap my rasor.
'What in natur are you a scoldin' for? sais I: 'that won't mend the matter; how's time? They must soon be a stirrin' now, I guess. Well, as I am a livin' sinner, it was only five o'clock; 'oh dear, sais I, 'time is like women and pigs the more you want it to go, the more it won't. What on airth shall I do? guess, I'll strap my rasor.
"Poor Aunt Rebecca," Amanda said one day, "how we miss her now!" "Yes, ain't?" agreed Millie. "For all her scoldin' she was a good help still. If she was livin' yet she'd fuss about all the sewin' you're doin' to get married but she'd pitch right in and help do it." Philip offered to pull basting threads, but his generosity was not appreciated.
"The lady's in a fit!" cried a woman, hurrying to Virginia's assistance; "you've druv her to distraction; you shouldn't a ben so abusive; I could hear ye clear into my room a scoldin' and accusin' of her of makin' your match fer ye."
He glanced at the noisy women as he spoke. "What's the row about?" asked Theo. "'Cause Mis' Carey said Mis' Green's baby was cross-eyed. Mis' Green got so mad at that that she's been scoldin' 'bout it ever since an' leavin' the baby to yell there by itself on the floor poor little beggar!
Johanna stood whispering loudly at Barbara's bedside: "Week up, honey; sun high an' scoldin'! jess a-fuss-in' an' a-scoldin'!" One dark hand lifted back the white mosquito-net while the other tendered a cup of coffee. Barbara winked, scowled, laid her wrists on the maid's shoulders and smiled into her black face. Johanna put away a brown wave of hair.
"A nice scoldin' I'll be gettin' over again from Madam when she hears of it." "Oh no, she won't! Not when she get's her egg, and I tell her about it," said Terry. And then Reilly gathered up his reins, laughing, and went rattling his cart of turf down the road. Lally led away the pony, and Nancy and the children returned to the house.
"What you two quar'lin' about?" demanded 'Manda Grier, coming suddenly into the room; and that turned their retrospective griefs into joy again. "I'm scoldin' him because he don't think enough of himself," cried Statira. "Well, he seems to take it pretty meekly," said 'Manda Grier. "I guess you didn't scold very hard.
''T is only four o'clock, says she, 'an' that grasshopper greenhorn can't wait for broad day till she go out an' see the whole of Ameriky. So I wint off to sleep again; the first bell was biginnin' on the mill, and I had an hour an' a piece, good, to meself after that before Mary Ann come scoldin'. I don't be sleepin' so well as some folks the first part of the night." Mr.
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