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There was gossip to relate and the lives of various men who had come and gone to be dilated upon. Fairchild finished his meal and waited. But Harry talked on. Bozeman and Bill left the dining room again to make a report to the narrow-faced Squint Rodaine. Harry did not even notice them.
"My advice is to climb yonder hill and take a squint around," came from Captain Jerry. "That's a splendid idea, providing we can get to the tap," said Dick. "There is no use of all of us going, lad. You can go with me while the rest stay here." "What shall we do in the meantime?" asked Sam. "Better try your hand at fishin', lad, and see if you can knock some birds over with sticks and stones.
He could read the addresses on six of them, but the seventh lay on its back, and every time he rose on his tip-toes to squint down at it, the spout pushed his bonnet over his eyes. "Smith," he cried in at the door, "to gang hame afore I ken wha that letter's to is more than I can do." The smith good-naturedly brought the letter to him, and then glancing at the address was dumfounded.
I fell to finding fault with everything and every one in the world, with especial emphasis on town-bred youngsters and Petersburg dandies; and went to such lengths at last, that my partner gradually ceased smiling, and instead of turning her eyes upward, began suddenly from astonishment, I suppose to squint, and that so strangely, as though she had for the first time observed the fact that she had a nose on her face.
And the sky, was it ever so blue or so clear, so far away, or so completely like heaven, as you looked at its reflection in the glassy surface of the river? "Yes, it's a pretty good day," allowed Uncle Bart judicially as he took a squint at his T-square. "I don' know's I should want to start out an' try to beat it!
"Sometimes we agree, and again we have different minds; but in this case it looks like we might be on the same raft." "Take another good squint at the point, Andy, and see if you can pick up that man again, the fellow who was doing all that tall Wigwagging." "I'm looking, Frank." "What d'ye see there now?" the other continued.
An autumn wind was blowing, and long plumes of dust whisked up out of the curving street and swept over the ill-kept yards, past the cabins, and toward the sere fields and chromatic woods. The wind beat at the brown man; the dust whispered against his clothes, made him squint his eyes to a crack and tickled his nostrils at each breath.
Then a curious thing happened. The sunlight, which was so bright it was making the others squint and draw the curtains, suddenly seemed to Sahwah to be darkened, while a nameless fear stole into her heart and oppressed her with a sense of lurking danger, of hovering calamity.
You shall be instructed in the Armenian way of doing business I think you would make an excellent merchant. 'Why do you think so? 'Because you have something of the Armenian look. 'I understand you, said I; 'you mean to say that I squint! 'Not exactly, said the Armenian, 'but there is certainly a kind of irregularity in your features.
And you bet I told him folks can't do sneaking things around me and get away with it, and it was n't more 'n five minutes after he 'd got home that your father knew what was going on how Squint and them two others was figuring on jumping his claim before he could file on it and all that. "Well, there was a big Cornishman here that I was kind of sweet on and I guess I always will be.
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