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Says the whole thing's a 'poke hole, and the curt'in recollects him of 'strings of spinnin' caterpillars, and 'no beau that's worth his shoes won't ever get caught in no such trap, which is most tryin' to Lurella, so I hev to act pleased, and smooth things over best I can." Well-a-day, it is always easier to answer the riddles that puzzle others, rather than those that confront ourselves.
"A few moments before, a man dressed in holyday garb tried the doors and windows of the cottage, and, finding them securely fastened, murmured, "''Tis frighted she is, an' I away, an' tired, too, wid spinnin', I'll be bound. Well, I'll not rise her now. There's clane sthraw in the barn, an' I'll slape there till mornin'.
Big load of rock was comin' up. I waz man at the hoist, man on the easy job that day. Wall wad y' believe it, the damn thing bruk bruk plum whoop an' started spinnin' round back side first with the load o' rock an' the boys under comin' up the ladder.
"I would only I can't keep 'em off the North Pole there," said Phoebe, as she gazed fascinated through the north window opposite. "Why, what's the matter with the child!" Rebecca exclaimed, in alarm. "Air ye struck silly, Phoebe?" "No, but I guess you'd want to watch it too if you could see that ring we're tied to spinnin' round right close to the top of the pole.
"When it comes to business matters, Mister Whimple," he said with a dignity that almost upset the young lawyer's effort to appear gravely judicial, "it's me on the level. You can trust me to tell the truth and do the right thing. But when it comes to spinnin' yarns, nobody don't have to b'lieve 'em. Honest, I don't know when I'm telling the truth about 'em myself."
"Spinnin' them some of his smutty yarns," growled Lund, halting in his promenade. "Bad for discipline, an' bad for us. He's the sort of fine-feathered bird that wouldn't give those chaps a first look ashore. Gittin' in solid with 'em that way is a bad steer. You can't handle a man you make a pal of, w'en he ain't yore rank." "Carlsen's slack, but he's a good sailorman," said Rainey casually.
It's like a heap o' woo' just after shearin' time; it's worth a deal, but it tak's a vast o' combin', an' cardin', an' spinnin' afore it can be made use on. Having ended his oration, much to his own satisfaction, Kester tossed off his glass of wine, smacked his lips, wiped his mouth with the back of his hand, pocketed his cake, and made off. That night Sylvia spoke of his visit to her husband.
'It's not easy gettin' as good, rejoined the old woman, 'an' you ought to be very glad to win him, if you can. 'Let me alone for that, said Sally. 'Biddy's a good girl, I allow; but as for spinnin', she never saw the day she could leave me behind her. Won't you sit an' rest you? she added; 'maybe you're tired.
"Oh, we-ll, in that case I'd just sort of of edge around till I found one that that was a beginnin' of SOMETHIN' and I'd start there. You understand, don't you? Take that yarn I was spinnin' just now that one about Josiah Dimick's great uncle's pig on his mother's side. I mean his uncle on his mother's side, not the pig, of course.
I looked over into the gardens down b'low the town, 'n' see men plantin' corn, 'n' tendin' peach trees, but didn't see no women at it. The women was all in the houses, spinnin', weavin', sewin', 'n' fixin' up ginerally." "Remarkable people!" exclaimed Aunt Maria. "They are at least as civilized as we. Very probably more so. Of course they are.
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