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Updated: September 8, 2025
"Well, this, Pierre, for you that's a thinker from me that's none. I was walking with him in Red Glen yesterday. Sudden he took to shiverin', and snatched me by the arm, and a mad look shot out of his handsome face. 'Hush! says he. I listened. There was a sound like the hard rattle of a creek over stones, and then another sound behind that.
"That's the worst of not being used to it," said the mate, without moving a muscle. The skipper eyed him solemnly, but the mate stood firm. "Arter that," continued the skipper, still watching him suspiciously, "I remember no more distinctly until this morning, when I found myself sitting on a step down Poplar way and shiverin', with the morning newspaper and a crowd round me."
An' there I was, plump against Elspie, standin' holdin' her arms 'round the tree trunk an' shiverin' some. "'Elspie, s'I, 'why, you poor child. "'No need to rub that in, s'she, tart. It's the one word the county charges gets sensitive about an' Eb, he seemed to sense that, an' he ask' her, hasty, how the fire started.
I couldn't stand for the poor wretch a shiverin' by my fire in his buttoned-up coat, so I give him blankets; and afterward an outfit of clothes. "What do you think was the first thing he ever ast me for? a razor and a glass! And every day after that he used to shave hisself every day mind you, if we was in the thickest part of the bush!
You wouldn't think no woman would look without shiverin' at that hell-raiser. But she's goin' on a hunger strike on account of him. Since yesterday she wouldn't eat none. She says she'll starve herself to death unless we turn her loose. The hell of it is that she will. I know it an' so does the rest of the boys." "Starve herself to death?" said Buck exuberantly. "Wait till I get hold of her!"
I've seen them climbin' on the new steadin', crawlin' alang the rafters, haudin' their cruizey lamps afore them, an' us women-bodies shiverin' wi' fear at the door. It was on ane o' thae nights 'at a mason fell off the rafters an' broke his leg.
"Well," continued the narrator, "there' they sat, with cowld and fear in their pale faces, shiverin' over the remains of the fire, for it was now nearly out, and thinking, as the deadly blast would drive through the creaking ould door and the half-stuffed windies, of what their father would do under such a terrible night.
When I been settin' here alone, nights, and feelin' out her paces, I get so het up and interested that I don't know the fire's out till Bondsman takes to shiverin' and whinin' and tellin' me he'd like to get some sleep afore mornin'." And Bondsman, now that the music had stopped, stalked to Lorry and eyed him with an expression which said plainly: "It's his weak spot this music.
Then the horses wheeled and stamped, the stage careened and creaked, presently to roll out of sight in the gloom. "You're shiverin'," said Dale, suddenly, looking down upon Helen. She felt his big, hard hand clasp hers. "Cold as ice!" "I am c-cold," replied Helen. "I guess we're not warmly dressed." "Nell, we roasted all day, and now we're freezing," declared Bo.
The shiverin' earth begun to git a little warmer, kinder shook herself and partly throwed off the white fur robe she'd wore all huddled round herself so long, and as the sun looked down closter and more smilin' it throwed it clear off and begun to put on its new green spring suit.
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