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"Wha' d' ye s'pose thet air thing's made uv?" he inquired after a little silence. "Silver," said I. "Pure silver?" "Undoubtedly," was my answer. "Judas Priest!" said he, taking out his wallet again, to look at the trophy. "Thet air mus' be wuth suthin'." "More than a year's salary," said I. He looked up at me with a sharp whistle of surprise.
I reckon if it had seen you young ladies it would have run." "Are we as scary as all that?" asked Alice, with a nervous little laugh. "Oh, no, Miss. I didn't mean it that way at all," said the man. "I beg your pardon, I'm sure. But a bobcat won't hardly ever attack a grown person, unless it's cornered. I reckon this one must have been riled about suthin' and thought to claw up the tots a bit.
"Suthin' called me back from the mill, and it was to see this," said the old man. Lou turned to Tom. "You won't love me any the less because I couldn't hide that I loved you, will you?" "Oh, there couldn't be any less, and in the whole world there isn't room for more," Tom replied; his aunt standing near, looking with misty eyes upon him. "Well," Margaret exclaimed, "I never was so surprised."
"Take a squint through my glass. I'm dreffully afeard it's a gal; but suthin's got into my eye, so I can't see." Suthin' had got into the old fellow's eye, suthin' saline and acrid, namely, a tear. "It's a woman," says Wheelwright, and suthin' of the same kind blinded him also. Almost sunset now. But the air was suddenly filled with perplexing snow-dust from a heavy squall.
Rivermen called this island George's Island, 'cause Washington onct camped here; but of late years the name's got changed, an' the men say suthin' like this: 'We'll try an' make Milly's birch afore sundown, jest as Bill and me hev done to-day. Some years agone I was comin' up from Fort Henry, an' had on board my slow old scow a lass named Milly we never learned her other name.
"Judas Priest!" said D'ri, as he stopped the light with thumb and finger. "I 'm goin' t' set here 'n th' straw luk an ol' hen 'n' ile up m' thinker 'n' set 'er goin'. One o' them kind hes t' keep 'is mouth shet er he can't never dew ho thinkin'. Bymby, like es not, I 'll hev suthin' t1 say et 'll 'mount t' suthin'." We lay back on the straw in silence.
'Half a WHAT? asked Anthea. 'Arf a shiner, quid, thick 'un half a sov, then. 'I haven't got it and, besides, it's OUR bird, said Anthea. 'Oh, don't talk to him, said Cyril and then Jane said suddenly 'Phoenix dear Phoenix, we can't do anything. YOU must manage it. 'With pleasure, said the Phoenix and Ike nearly dropped it in his amazement. 'I say, it do talk, suthin' like, said he.
"W'y, suh, I had my min' flung down on er 'ligious subjeck an' it wuz all I coul' do ter t'ar it off." "Ah, thought I hearn suthin' rip like a piece of tent cloth," and giving Kintchin the harness he continued: "Here, hitch up old Dick and drive these folks over to the post office." "Yas, suh." "And when you come back you can break that young steer." "Yas, suh, break de steer."
Sleight the big financier, the smartest man in 'Frisco." "What does he want to buy her for?" asked Rosey, knitting her pretty brows. The apparently simple question suddenly puzzled Mr. Nott. He glanced feebly at his daughter's face, and frowned in vacant irritation. "That's so," he said, drawing a long breath; "there's suthin' in that." "What did he SAY?" continued the young girl, impatiently.
"Do you see them beans, old man?" and he pinted to a plate before him. "Do you see 'em?" "I do. They are a cheerful fruit when used tempritly." "Well," said he, "I hadn't eat anything since last week. I eat beans now BECAUSE I eat beans THEN. I never mix my vittles!" "It's quite proper you should eat a little suthin' once in a while," I said.
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