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"Mother," observed John, "will you and my father come into the next room for a minute I wish to say a word or two to each of you; and will you, Fardorougha, have the goodness to sit here till we return?" "Divil a notion," replied O'Donovan, "I have of stirrin' my foot till the thing's settled one way or other."
The' 's somethin' stirrin' among th' rocks; I hear th' soun' of it in th' night, when th' wind has stopped blowin'. Oh, stay by me a little while, Miss Darlin'! stay by me! for it's th' Las' Day, may be, that's close on us, 'n' I feel as if I couldn' meet th' Lord all alone!"
'What in natur are you a scoldin' for? sais I: 'that won't mend the matter; how's time? They must soon be a stirrin' now, I guess. Well, as I am a livin' sinner, it was only five o'clock; 'oh dear, sais I, 'time is like women and pigs the more you want it to go, the more it won't. What on airth shall I do? guess, I'll strap my rasor.
Jabez had his vanities all right, an' he used to parade 'em occasional an' got a heap o' comfort out of 'em. Dick went along seasonin' an' addin' an' stirrin' an' not seemin' to pay a mite of attention, until finally Jabez got tired of appreciatin' himself, an' sez, "Well, what do you think of this little plant anyway?"
For just one second I did feel a little bit out o' the world; but by the time they rode up I was able to welcome 'em with a joke. "We lost our way," sez Bill. "Is it too late?" "It's never too late," sez I. "But I'm right down sorry that you didn't arrive last evenin'. We had about as stirrin' a weddin' here as ever you see." "Who was it that Barbie married?" asked Jessamie.
It was past midnight before the laborious four finished their review of the books and joined with Scattergood in giving Ovid a clean bill of health. "Didn't think Ovid had it in him to steal," said Kettleman. "Hain't got no business stirrin' us up like this for nothin'," said Atwell, acrimoniously. "Maybe," suggested Scattergood, "Ovid's come down with a fit of suthin'."
"But, boys," continued the captain, in a solemn voice, elevating his venerable chin, and regarding them with a patriarchal smile, "boys, don't begin to go on in that thar old despondent strain. Methinks I hear some on you a repinin, an a frettin, cos we're stuck here hard an fast. Don't do it, boys; take my advice, an don't do it. Bear in mind the stirrin an memiorable events of this here mornin.
But we'd better all turn in naow, for we must be stirrin' early to-morrer; we've got our orders, an' I'm second mate o' the Nautilus." "O father, the Nautilus? That old tub? I thought you said she wasn't sea-worthy." "Oh, waal, not so bad as thet, quite. To be shore she's old, an' she's clumsy, but I guess she's got a good many knots o' sailin' in her yet, Sairay. I guess so.
'Well, well! said Kester, not looking up at her, for he caught the inflections in the tones of her voice. 'He were a fine stirrin' chap, yon; an' he were allays for doin' summut; an' when he fund as he couldn't ha' one thing as he'd set his mind on, a reckon he thought he mun put up wi' another. 'It 'ud be no "putting up," said Sylvia.
"Therefore, I didn't git up here in the headwaters of the Platte until years after, but from what I ketch they had some right stirrin' time in here, 'twixt cattle rustlin' and sheep crowdin'. Ole Jim knows the whole story, but he don't broadcast none." Topping a swell of the meadow lands another stream basin was encountered. "Hit's a little Ranty," explained Landy.
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