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"'I don't care to go pullin' off my moccasins in the Tub of Blood, an' makin' a vulgar display of my wealth by pourin' the silver onto the floor. Thar's a peck of it, if thar's dos reals; an' sech an exhibition as spillin' it out in the Tub of Blood is bound to mortify me, an' the barkeep, an' Frosty, an' most likely lead to makin' remarks.
She stuck her finger in her mouth, presumably to stem the tide of speech, for as she withdrew it the words fell out over one another all in one breath. "Don't want anyfing to eat. Lay down in the grass an' roll. Put kerosene on my head. Can't git any more in my cup, all spillin' over." The door opened and once more the superintendent tapped his bell.
Hain't been spillin' molasses, have yer? Bet yer have! Good joke on Old Foxy!" It had been a heavenly picnic the little trio all agreed as to that; and when Ivory saw the Baxter girls coming up the shady path that led along the river from the Indian Cellar to the bridge, it was a merry group and a transfigured Rodman that caught his eye.
"It sure beats bumboatin'. Here, blast you, Bart. You're spillin' the wind out o' that jib. First thing you know we'll have her in irons an' then the fat will be in the fire." He took the wheel from McGuffey. When he was two miles off the beach he brought her up into the wind and made the wheel fast, a spoke to leeward. "Sheet home the fore-to'-gallan'-s'l," he howled and dashed forward.
Short in stature and huge in frame, the mass of him, even in that half-darkness of the fo'c'sle, showed somehow majestic and powerful. "The mate came after 'im about somethin' or other," he said in his deep, slow tones. "That's right," said another seaman. "It was about spillin' some tar on the deck, an' now the Dago's got to stop up this arternoon an' holystone it clean in his watch below."
"Certainly," said Richling, with evident disappointment. "Well, it's juz a poss'bil'ty that you'll wefwain fum spillin' out fum yeh till the negs cawneh. Thass the manneh of those who ah not acquainted with the pee-ogue. 'Lost to sight, to memo'y deah' if you'll egscuse the maxim. Thass Chawles Dickens mague use of that egspwession." Richling answered with a gay shake of the head.
Only trouble is there are so many different ways of spillin' the beans that we're takin' a chance no matter what we do. Answer me this, David: if you had to point out one person right now as the guilty one which'd you choose?" Carroll shook his head. "You know I don't like to answer questions of that sort." "But you can tell me " "No-o.
"Jerking down the gun," explained Joe, pointing to the broken rack. "Jerkin' down the gun! What'd he want look look at all that money! The sack's busted it's spillin' all over him!" "He's dead," said Joe weakly, "and I was going after the doctor." "Stone dead," said Greening, bending over the body; "they ain't a puff of breath left in him. The doctor couldn't do him no good, Joe, but I reckon "
An' cups and sassers, with a tea-pot 'n' kittle; an' he makes tea himself an' drinks it I swear it's so. An' a guitar, an', Lord, the pictures! You can't see no wall for 'em! "'It's a mighty lucky thing, havin' this room, Thompson, says he to that hired man, 'the things was spillin' over. We'll make it a bower o' beauty, Thompson, says he. 'Yes, sir, says the man.
It'll be Neale's whin I see him.... Durade jabbered fer help. But no wan come. Thot big trapper Slingerland stood there with two guns, an' shure he looked bad. Neale slung Durade around, spillin' some fellars who didn't dodge quick, an' thin he jerked him up backwards. "An' Durade come up with a long knife in the one hand he had free. "Neale yelled, 'Lee, take the gurl out!
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