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"Why, Spider!" he exclaimed, "what the " "Sufferin' Mike!" sighed the Spider plaintively, "here I've been knockin' at your all-fired winder knockin' an' knockin', an' here you've been snorin' and snorin'." "No, did I snore, Spider?" "Bo, you sure are a bird for snorin'." "Damn it!" said Ravenslee, frowning, "I must break myself of it." "Thinkin' of gettin' married, bo?" "Married? What the "
Suddenly the waggoner came to a halt, and said 'Blest if that Gearge bain't a snorin' on his pins! Evan lingered by him with some curiosity, while the waggoner thumped his thigh to, 'Yes he be! no he bain't! several times, in eager hesitation. 'It's a fellow calling from the downs, said Evan. 'Ay, so! responded the waggoner. 'Dang'd if I didn't think 'twere that Gearge of our'n. Hark awhile.
Many a night when Billy's stayin' late, tryin' to win himse'f outen the hole, I beholds him playin' poker, or mebby it's farebank, with Willyum curled up on his lap an' shirt-front, snorin' away all sound an' genial, an' Billy makin' his raises an' callin' his draw to the dealer in whispers, for fear he wakes Willyum.
"Sorry to see your ride has given you so poor an appetite," said the settler, with a look expressive of the savage delight he felt in annoying his visitor. "I reckon that's rather unsavory stuff you've got there, that you can't eat it without bread. I say young man" addressing Grantham, "can't you find no appetite neither, that you sit there snorin', as if you never meant to wake agin."
"Don't it seem as if the sea wor sleepin'," whispered one of the men, while they all lay watching under the boat. "Ay, an' snorin' too," answered another. "Whisht!" exclaimed a third, "if old Neptune hears ye, he'll wake up an' change his tune." "Och, sure he's woke up already," whispered Larry, pointing with great excitement to a dark object which at that moment appeared to emerge from the sea.
And one out of each pair snored. It broke up each span, as you may say. The snorin' filled each room devoted to 'em. He snored, loud. A good man and a noble man he wuz, so she repeated it, but she found out too late too late, that he snored. The house wuz small; she could not escape from snores, turn she where she would. She got tired out with her work days, and couldn't rest nights.
"Will ye come to yer supper, Dick? I ha' got a slice o' ham an' a hot tater for ye. Come along." "Well, I don't know as I mind jest to please you, Liza. I believe I ha' been asleep in grannie's cheer there, her a playin' an' a singin', I make no doubt, like a werry nightingerl, bless her, an' me a snorin' all to myself, like a runaway locomotive!
In the daytime he's as given to silence as I am to talk, but couldn't anybody beat him snorin'. Sometimes I think the roof has gone." John Maxwell coughed. The smoke from the cigarette had gone the wrong way and his eyes were watery. "But he's a good man, McDougal is," his wife continued, "and everything he makes he hands over to me.
"No more I do, my boy. It's my own homemade. I put it together last night when I couldn't sleep for your snorin'." "Don't tell fibs, father. You know I never snore. But really are we to start at daylight?" "We are, if the wind holds. But you may stay as late as you choose on shore to-night."
"Drumsheugh does not expect many absentees." "Naebody 's missin' that a' cud see, sir, except that ill gettit wratch, Tammie Ronaldson, and a' coont him past redemption. A' gaed in as a' cam doon, and gin he wesna lyin' in his bed sleepin' an' snorin' like a heathen." "Well, John, did you do your duty as an officer of the church?"
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