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Several acres had been cut off, and skidways built up for more extensive operations, probably for that very season. Upon consulting his map, the forester found, as he had expected, that the timber was not charted as belonging to private individuals. Tom pointed to a man-made dam in the river. It had been constructed of spiles small logs, driven in like posts, set so that they leaned upstream.
Jackson entered into the question warmly, explaining to me how and where to bore holes with a gimlet, and making two spiles for me to stop the holes with. As soon as he had done so, curiosity induced me to go down to the pool where the cask had been lying so long in about a foot and half water.
He knew very well in which direction to go, for, half-way to the landing, he met Dick coming up the road with a basket of eels on his arm. "Dick, I'm going to boarding-school, at an academy." "Cad'my? Whar?" "Up in New England. They call it Grantley Academy. Where Ford and Frank are going." "Dat spiles it all," exclaimed Dick, ruefully. "Now I's got to fish wid fellers 'at don't know nuffin."
Reckon they're goin' to stay a spell, 'cause they've got trunks one of a reasonable size, an' 'nother that looks like a dog-house. Box, too, that's got lead in it." "Schoolteacher boarded to our house wunst an' she had most a car-load of 'em. Educated folks has to have books to keep from losin' their education." "Don't take much stock in it myself," remarked the driver. "It spiles most folks.
"As ye air so powerful sot on goin' to mill, whether or no, I'll leave this hyeh sack at the bend O' the road, 'n' ye kin git it thar. I'll bring the meal back ef ye puts it in the same place. I hates to see women-folks a-ridin' this horse. Hit spiles him." The horse was a dapple-gray of unusual beauty, and as the girl reached out her hand to stroke his throat, he turned to nibble at her arm.
"Northern folks has tender eyes, and I hurts 'em me and my poor little house what ole marster built for me when Mars' Winston was a baby, and your blessed ma couldn't be easy 'thout I was near her WE spiles the prospect! So, it must be knocked down and carted away for rubbish to build pig-pens, I 'spose, and me sent off to live 'mong low-lived niggers, sech as I've always held myself above.
Mrs. Dodgson had also informed the women that any of them who liked to supply the material for undergarments or for children's dresses, could have them for the present made up without charge by the class. "But suppose they spiles 'em?" "They wont spoil them. The work may not be very neat at first, but the things will be well cut out and strongly put together. I will see to that."
Hannah walked up to the door and shut it. 'I should, should I? An who'll pay for Louie for your luvely limb of a niece? It 'ud tak about that, and she pointed grimly to the drawer, 'to coover what she wastes an spiles i' t' yeer. 'Yo get her work, Hannah. Her bit and sup cost yo most nothin. I cud wark a bit moor soa cud yo.
A trout rising boldly at a fly is said to "'quap' up," or "boil up," or even "come at it like a dog." The word "mess" is used to imply disgust of any sort: "I see one boil up just above that mess of weed"; or, if you get a bit of weed on the hook, he will exclaim, "Bother! that mess of weed has put him down." Sometimes he remarks, "Tis these dreadful frostis that spiles everything.
He knew very well in which direction it was best to go; and, half way to the landing, he met Dick coming up the road with a basket of eels on his arm. "Dick," shouted Dabney, "I'm going away to boarding-school, at an academy." "'Cad'my? Whar?" "Up in New England. They call it Grantley Academy, where Frank and Ford are going." "Dat spiles it all," said Dick ruefully.
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